Family-friendly things to do at Avebury
From trails and guided tours to craft activities, Avebury has lots of ways for you to enjoy precious time together as a family.
Planning your family visit
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Free entry for under 5s
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Baby-changing facilities available
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Children’s menu available at the café
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Pocket money gifts and children’s books available in the shop
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Picnic tables in the Old Farmyard
Explore Avebury Henge and Stone Circles
4,500 years ago, people living here built the largest stone circle in the world, with two smaller circles within it* and dug a 9m deep bank and ditch around the outer one.
You can enter the stone circle, touch the stones (but don’t climb), walk all the way around it, and take a walk along West Kennet Avenue, one of the two stone rows that led to (or from) the circles.
The stones is enclosed by fences, but be careful crossing the roads. Most of the year there are sheep grazing the grass.
*Stonehenge would fit within one of these smaller circles.
Discover Avebury Manor
(Avebury Manor is currently closed following flooding in January. We will update our website with information about reopening as soon as we have it)
Avebury Manor is unlike most other National Trust properties, as there are few restrictions on what you can do. Whilst we do ask you to be careful and respectful of the items on display, we also encourage you to sit on the chairs, handle the artefacts, and feel able to experience the manor in a tangible way.
Each room in the manor is furnished in the style of a different period, so you can experience what life was like from Tudor times until the 1930s.
Learn about Avebury in the Alexander Keiller Museum
All of the artefacts in the museum come from local excavations, many from the time of Alexander Keiller who dug at Avebury in the 1930s. Here you can find out more about the Avebury World Heritage Site and the Neolithic people who built their monument here.
Avebury Manor Garden sensory trail
A new sensory trail for families has opened in the gardens of Avebury Manor.
Perfect for neurodivergent visitors or younger families, use the free map to discover the best places to listen to the wind, smell the herbs, and look at the wildlife.