The Courtyard is a magical place for children and families to play, learn and discover together. Created as a miniature land of play amongst the local flora and fauna, the space is a gateway to the woodland and treetop walkways beyond. With undulating soft landscaping and natural pathways between, the play space is divided into a number of interconnected areas with a mixture of play houses and walkways of different heights and challenge. It’s been designed to allow children to learn their own level of risk and discover the absolute joy to be found in natural play.
There are also a series of beautifully crafted buildings with local shops, complete with handmade wooden tills, all surrounded by climbs, ladders and slides and roly poly slopes. You can clamber in and out of giant acorns, and pump water up to create your own controlled waterfall over the newly created sandstone rockery.
The new play area for older, or more adventurous children (and adults) is set amongst the beautiful mixed woodland to the North. The treehouses, soar high into the trees and are linked by a series of awesome play structures and walkways.
There are three levels of play, weaving in and around the huge mature trees, all connected with long rope bridges, wobbly walkways and a giant netted space on one of the inter-connecting decks. There are four enormous slides coming from the top of the different structures, one of which is an unusual roller slide.
Within the towers there are hidden play elements, secret passages, puzzles and things to discover. There is even a seasonal interactive projection of the flora, fauna and creatures of the woodland floor that reacts to your own movement through the space.
