Outdoor play areas in the South East

Keep your little adventurers occupied with our selection of outdoor play areas across the South East. From swings, balancing beams and woodland paths to explorer maps, quizzes and natural play trails.

Children splashing in muddy puddles at Mottisfont, Hampshire

Mottisfont, Hampshire 

Explore our outdoor play area that is full of adventure. Take on the boggy climbing area, attempt to balance on snaky beams and dam the stream in the wild pool.

Wild play at Mottisfont
Child playing on the slide in the Storybook Play Den at Cliveden, Buckinghamshire

Cliveden, Buckinghamshire 

While away an hour or two on our log stepping stones, balancing beams or rope swings and strengthen your climbing and den building skills along the way.

Outdoors at Cliveden
Children climbing on a tree in the natural play area

Ightham Mote, Kent 

Let them run wild in our natural play area, encourage them to take on our house quiz or discover the garden with our magical map.

Family fun
Ball Run at Basildon Park

Basildon Park, Berkshire 

Discover The Great Ball Run made by our creative outdoor team from upcycling materials and enjoy hours of fun with the family.

Plan your visit
Family walking in woodland

Standen, West Sussex 

Encourage your children to let off some steam in the Plantation, our natural play area, inspired by the family's adventures around the world in the 1920s.

Family fun at Standen
A little girl balances on a fallen tree at our natural play trail at Box Hill in Surrey

Box Hill, Surrey 

Our Natural Play Trail is a two-mile level walk and a great chance for the whole family to play in the woods. The trail can take anything from an hour to a whole day.

Visit Box Hill
Children hanging from trees in Morden Hall Park

Morden Hall Park, London 

Watch your little adventurers take the zip wire challenge, build a den, swing on the ropes or balance on the logs. Or for a more gentle activity, discover our carved wooden storyboat.

Adventurers welcome
Child playing in woods at Chartwell Kent

Chartwell, Kent 

The natural play area was created to reintroduce the adventures that the Churchill children enjoyed in the grounds of their home and now your children can experience them too.

Visit Churchill's home
There are loads of den building materials in our woodland playtrail

Sheffield Park, East Sussex 

Set in an enclosed woodland copse, our woodland trail allows youngsters to build a den, climb trees or sit on one of the story-telling chairs and let their imaginations run wild.

Woodland fun