Kiddemore Green Certificated Location

Boscobel House and The Royal Oak (five minutes’ drive) consists of a 17th-century former hunting lodge and a historic tree where King Charles II is said to have hidden, fearing for his life, at the end of the English Civil War. Meanwhile, the kids might like to explore the Victorian Farmyard and the adventure playground. The rooms of Chillington Hall (10 minutes) are decorated with period furniture, chandeliers and gilded mirrors. Organised tours take in both the elegant interiors and the estate (on a trailer), with its lake and folly-dotted woodland. On the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent (40 minutes), the Gladstone Pottery Museum is the home of ‘The Great Pottery Throwdown’ competition, while Middleport Pottery is an industrial site that might look familiar to fans of ‘Peaky Blinders’.