The Official Visitor Site for Kielder Water & Forest Park
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Play Garden is an unusual playscape featuring a walled garden for smaller children, with forest follies in the wilder area for the older participants. The form of the Cottage, Barn and Castle suggests past lives of this agricultural and military landscape while a route through the play area is marked by a line of steel poles connecting the suite to the flat expanse of Kielder Water in the background.
From Newcastle or Carlisle, follow the A69 to Hexham then follow the B6320 to Bellingham (brown-signed Kielder Water & Forest) and take the C200 to Kielder Water & Forest Park.
From Jedburgh/Edinburgh take the A68 south to Otterburn, then the B6320 to Bellingham and follow the brown signs to Kielder Water & Forest Park along the C200.
Leaplish is situated within Kielder Village and sign-posted from the C200.
Please remember to fill up your tank before you begin your journey as there are no petrol stations in the immediate Kielder Water & Forest Park area.
Tel: +44 0870 240 3549
Playgarden - the forest follies
Image: Peter Sharpe