Family fun at East Riddlesden Hall

Find out what you could get up to during your visit

• Discovery Garden

  Tucked away within the trees, this natural play area has lots for little ones to discover. Find the hidden entrance and follow the path to start your adventure.

  Cook up a messy delight in the mud pie kitchen, make some music with the chimes. Practise balancing on the rope bridge or use the wheelbarrows to make a hedgehog house with leaves. Why not put on a show in the East Riddlesden puppet theatre, or try to make the giant scales balance?

  The newly refubished area is the perfect place for little ones to play. With a shop, castle and ship, imaginations can run wild in the outdoors.

• Bug hotel 

  Hidden amongst the yew trees in the Discovery Garden, we’re building up this special home for our littlest residents. Grab some sticks, leaves and moss and help add to the many floors of the hotel. See if you can spot any of its guests making themselves at home – but be careful, we need to take care of these lovely little critters.

• Formal gardens

  Pull up a deck chair and enjoy some of the garden games, with skipping ropes, building blocks and tic-tac-toe to play with.

• Discovery room

  Head into the Discovery Room at the back of the hall and try out a free crafting activity. With a new craft to try out each week or colouring sheets, there's something new for every visit.

• Trim Trail

  Can you balance along the beam to the bridge? Can you make it to the end of the trail? Practise your balancing and climbing on the trim trail, tucked away behind the tearoom.

• Feeding the ducks

  Our favourite residents at East Riddlesden Hall love a healthy snack - you can pick up a bag of duck food from the shop for 50p.

• Lower fields and meadow walk

  There’s lots of open space on the lower fields, perfect for running off some steam, playing games or flying a kite. Follow the trail alongside the river and pass through our wonderful willow tunnel. The riverside path is also a great place to go on a scavenger hunt – look for leaves, sticks and other natural treasures to use in a fantastic wild art creation.