WARNER THORESBY HALL SPA HOTEL - NOTTINGHAM

Creswell Crags - Home of the Ice Age Hunter

Creswell Crags is a limestone gorge honeycombed with caves and smaller fissures. Stone tools and remains of animals found in the caves by archaeologists provide evidence for a fascinating story of life during the last Ice Age between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago. Go on a tour around Robin Hood Cave and explore the people and animals that lived here in the past.
Visit the Creswell Crags website.

The Vina Cooke Doll Museum

The Vina Cooke museum houses a large collection of dolls dating from the 18th century to the present day. The collection is brought together in a late 17th century Dower house and former Rectory, which is itself of considerable interest. A fantastic collection of toys, games, teddies, prams, dolls houses, books, models, costumes including handmade portrait dolls.
Visit the Vina Cooke Doll Museum website.

The Wetlands Animal Wildlife Park

Wetlands animal park and waterfowl reserve houses animal and birds in spacious natural environments where you can touch house and feed many animals from around the world. Wetlands Animal park and waterfowl reserve is a great day out for all the family.
Visit the Wetlands Animal Wildlife Park website.

Newstead Abbey

Newstead Abbey, best known as the former home of the poet Lord Byron, was originally an Augustinian priory founded by Henry II in about 1170. The gardens and parkland at Newstead Abbey cover more than 300 acres. A great day out for all the family with plenty to explore and keep the young ones active.
Visit the Newstead Abbey website.

The City of Caves

Enter and explore a whole new world in the caves underneath Nottingham city and descend into the dark depths of the original Anglo-Saxon tunnels, meeting real cave-dwellers from its dramatic hidden past. See how these caves have been used and adapted over the Centuries by local people to escape and take refuge from the world above.
Visit the City of Caves website.