Yarrow Valley Country Park
A 700 acre wooded river valley with a lodge full of ducks, colour-coded trails and Yarrow Rocks, a play area that actually lets kids take a few risks. The Treeface cafe by the main car park sorts the bribes.
Astley Hall & Park
Chorley, Lancashire
A glass-fronted Tudor hall - startling, unforgettable - in a free park with woodland play trails, a walled garden and a pets corner.
Chorley's pride, and deserved. The park is free; the hall charges a little and rewards the curious.
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Rivington Terraced Gardens & Great House Barn
Lord Leverhulme's lost hillside gardens: ruined terraces, tunnels and archways, ornamental lakes and the Pigeon Tower on the skyline, all free and never shut. Brilliant for kids who like exploring, hopeless with a pushchair.