21 places · every place verified by us
21 places
Museums and galleries · Malmesbury
Malmesbury's free museum in the Town Hall, with the stories of King Athelstan and Eilmer the flying monk, a wheelchair lift and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Rainy days · Family-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Museums and galleries · Bampton
Bampton's village archive in the Old Grammar School, the building that played Downton's cottage hospital, with an exhibition room, a shop and the Downton Mile map.
Rainy days
Verified Oct 2026
Museums and galleries · Broadway
A museum and gallery in Broadway's Tudor House on the High Street, with John Singer Sargent's portrait of Elizabeth Eberstadt among its paintings, free for under-16s.
Rainy days
Verified Nov 2026
Family days out · Dursley
A family farm park at Berkeley Heath Farm in the Severn Vale below Dursley, with two indoor play barns, outdoor play, a summer boating lake and farm animals, opened by the Cullimore family in 1992.
Family-friendly · Rainy days
Verified Nov 2026
Museums and galleries · Charlbury
Charlbury's volunteer-run museum beside the Corner House on Market Street: five rooms on the town's history, from Stone Age arrowheads to gloving, open at weekends from April to October.
Rainy days · Car-free
Verified Nov 2026
Museums and galleries · Cirencester
Cirencester's museum of Roman Corinium, with the Hare, Four Seasons and Orpheus mosaics, Anglo-Saxon grave goods and medieval sculpture.
Family-friendly · Rainy days · Car-free
Verified Oct 2026
Museums and galleries · Bourton-on-the-Water
A museum of twentieth-century motoring and toys in an eighteenth-century watermill on the Windrush in Bourton-on-the-Water, with seven galleries, over 800 enamel signs and Brum from the children's television series.
Family-friendly · Rainy days · Dog-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Museums and galleries · Chipping Campden
Chipping Campden's museum of craft and design, telling the story of Ashbee's Guild of Handicraft and the makers who followed, with half price for bus passengers.
Rainy days · Car-free
Verified Oct 2026
Wildlife and nature · Witney
A zoo at Brize Norton, near Witney and Burford, keeping more than 100 crocodiles, alligators and caimans of 19 species, open daily all year from 10am except Christmas Day.
Family-friendly · Rainy days
Verified Nov 2026
Antiques and vintage · Stow-on-the-Wold
An antiques centre on Sheep Street, Stow-on-the-Wold, where about 30 dealers share four large showrooms of furniture, paintings, silver, glass, jewellery and books, open every day.
Rainy days
Verified Oct 2026
Museums and galleries · Dursley
A volunteer-run museum opposite Dursley's Market House, telling the town's story from cloth to Lister engines, with an early Pedersen bicycle, open four mornings a week.
Rainy days · Walker-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Historic houses and heritage · Nailsworth
The Stroudwater Textile Trust's weaving shed on the Old Bristol Road at Nailsworth, where guides work hand-looms and a power loom and you can try weaving.
Family-friendly · Rainy days
Verified Nov 2026
Family days out · Winchcombe
A heritage railway running steam and diesel trains for 14 miles between Cheltenham Race Course and Broadway, by Winchcombe and Toddington.
Family-friendly · Dog-friendly · Rainy days
Verified Oct 2026
Museums and galleries · Broadway
A museum of the furniture designer Gordon Russell in one of his former workshops on Russell Square, Broadway, open Tuesday to Sunday, with a ticket that lasts a year.
Rainy days
Verified Nov 2026
Museums and galleries · Stroud
Stroud's free museum in a seventeenth-century house in Stratford Park, with a walled garden and a café, closed on Mondays and for a few weeks in winter.
Rainy days · Car-free · Family-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
Museums and galleries · Cirencester
A craft centre in Cirencester's old brewery buildings, with free exhibitions of contemporary craft, a shop of British makers' work, makers' studios, the Blend café and over 100 weekly courses and workshops.
Rainy days · Dog-friendly · Car-free
Verified Oct 2026
Museums and galleries · Stow-on-the-Wold
A gallery of contemporary British painting, sculpture and prints on Church Street, Stow-on-the-Wold, with more than 200 original works on two floors and changing exhibitions, open every day.
Rainy days
Verified Oct 2026
Historic houses and heritage · Wotton-under-Edge
A 100-seat cinema on Market Street, Wotton-under-Edge, opened in 1913 in the old Crown Inn and showing new films and live theatre, ballet and opera screenings.
Rainy days · Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Museums and galleries · Woodstock
The county museum in Woodstock, free, with galleries on Oxfordshire's history including Woodstock's gloves and cut steel, a garden and a café.
Rainy days · Car-free
Verified Oct 2026
Museums and galleries · Winchcombe
A free, volunteer-led museum in Winchcombe's former Town Hall, with fragments of the Winchcombe meteorite, a rare pair of fifteenth-century town maces and the town's story from its trades and tanneries to the Arts and Crafts makers.
Rainy days · Car-free
Verified Oct 2026
Museums and galleries · Wotton-under-Edge
The Wotton-under-Edge Historical Society's museum, archive and information point in the old fire station on The Chipping, open four days a week.
Rainy days · Walker-friendly
Verified Oct 2026
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