
Farmer Parr's Animal World
A proper hands-on farm park at the top of the Fylde coast: feeding, petting, pony and tractor rides, and enough indoor barns to survive the weather. Flat £10 a head from age 1, which is the only catch.
Fleetwood, Lancashire

Memorial Park is Fleetwood's proper park, Green Flag since 2015, which for a town park is a reasonable signal that somebody is actually looking after it. Wyre list children's play areas, a duck pond, woodland, wildflower planting, picnic areas, seating and a pavilion, and there is an active gardening club keeping the demonstration garden going.
The free multi use games area is the underrated part: football, cricket or basketball, no charge, no booking. Parkour equipment sits nearby but is signed for over eights, so a six year old will look at it and be told no. Two tennis courts are bookable online through Club Spark, and the bowling greens are hired by annual or seasonal contract through the Marine Hall box office.
It is ten minutes from the town centre and about the same from the beach, which makes it a good first or last stop on a Fleetwood day. It will not fill one on its own.
What it costs: Free to walk into, and the multi use games area is explicitly free to use. Tennis courts are booked online through Club Spark and Wyre publish no court price on the park page. Bowling greens go out on annual or seasonal contract through the Marine Hall box office on 01253 887693.
Worth knowing: The parkour equipment is signed for over eights; the play areas cover the younger end.
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A proper hands-on farm park at the top of the Fylde coast: feeding, petting, pony and tractor rides, and enough indoor barns to survive the weather. Flat £10 a head from age 1, which is the only catch.

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