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Car-less Itinerary with Kids

Hello.

In March my 7 year old and I are touring England for 9 days (not counting travel days). We will not be driving because I don’t feel comfortable navigating while driving on the left side of the road. We are spending the first two nights in Bath, but would like to visit 2 or 3 other destinations before flying out of Heathrow.

Any suggestions for 2 or 3 destinations that are accessible by public transport and walkable? My preference is to avoid London except for our last night since we leave on a morning flight. We like walking, kids activities, museums, history, dancing.

Any ideas welcome. Thank you.

Posted by
51 posts

Oxford and York. Easy to get to by rail. My boys loved the railway museum in York.

Posted by
7595 posts

Yes,
Oxford and York are great. York is special, walk the ancient walls, visit the Munster and the great Railway Museum.

I loved Stratford Upon Avon, but I am a big Shakespeare fan.

Posted by
7 posts

Thanks to all for the information. York is on my wish list, but the convenience of Chester is tempting. Especially considering the weather that time of year, I assume it is going to be rainy and cool in early March?

Regarding day trips from Chester, is North Wales easy to explore on foot or city bus? I had read Wales is a little more challenging for that purpose.

As for Bath, would it be best for us to find a day coach tour of Stonehenge? We would like to go very much.

Posted by
5239 posts

There's not going to be any discernable difference between the weather in Chester and the weather in York, in fact the more west you are the more the likelihood of rain although even then there's still going to be very little in it, if it's raining in Chester there's a good chance that it'll be raining in York or certainly not long after. March can be chilly, cold, freezing, snowing, sunny, warm or heatwave. It depends on the position of the Jet Stream primarily and also wind direction, pressure fronts etc. The weather in the UK is so difficult to predict because we're a northern bunch of islands that theoretically, because of our latitude it would normally be expected to be colder than it is but because we benefit from the warm waters of the Gulf Stream it makes out climate more in keeping with one expected from a country located further south. However, it also means that we're heavily influenced by the Atlantic and the climate is one that is very maritime rather than continental and is therefore very unpredicatable.

Posted by
7 posts

Kelly, thanks for asking. I have traveled to London twice before (but not the rest of the country). We don’t have a big travel budget and I regretted not seeing the rest of England on previous trips, so this one simply has a different focus.