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Photo of Fleet: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0An indoor play centre in Fleet for toddlers and young children. Sessions are booked online, and the centre is open most days of the year.
Photo: Alan Hunt, CC BY-SA 2.0An outdoor pool on Guildford Road in Aldershot, with a classic pool, three flumes, a diving board, a toddler pool and a sandpit. Picnics are allowed, and the grounds have basketball courts.
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0A museum on Queens Avenue in Aldershot covering the history of the British Army and the town's military past. Families can complete a set of missions around the galleries, aimed at ages 7 and over.
A large park in Aldershot with an extensive children's play area split into zones for different ages, a fishing lake and sports pitches. The Blackwater Valley River Path runs along its eastern end.
Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0247 hectares of forest with walking, wellbeing and cycle trails, a giant marble run, Gruffalo sculptures and play areas. The Go Ape treetop course is also here.
Gosport's wildlife haven, with woodland, meadows and wetlands between Gosport and Lee-on-the-Solent. The park has a children's play facility at the Western Gateway, a 17th century village and marked routes for walking and cycling.
A free museum on Church Close telling the story of Andover and the surrounding area. The Museum of the Iron Age, in the same building, covers the nearby Danebury hill fort.
A stretch of council-managed clifftop open space above Christchurch Bay at Barton-on-Sea, used for walking, cycling, picnics and watching wildlife. Designated paths and steps lead down to the beach, a designated bathing water, with beach huts along the shore.
Photo: Fernweh, CC BY-SA 2.0A former private estate on Basingstoke Common, now a place to walk, play and picnic. Its play area has a 30-metre zip wire, and the site is on the Basingstoke Canal Heritage Footpath Trail, which ends at Basing House.
The Hampshire end of the Basingstoke Canal, with the canal navigable to King John's Castle at Odiham. Walks follow the towpath, and boat trips run on the canal in season.
The soft play area at Basingstoke Sports Centre, run by Better. Birthday parties range from soft play to pool parties, with booking recommended.
Photo: Mr Ignavy, CC BY-SA 2.0A Green Flag woodland park and Local Nature Reserve in Basingstoke, with a toddler and junior play area, outdoor gym equipment, a pump track and the Café in the Park.
Photo: Birdworld, CC BY-SA 4.0A bird park with a Play Barn, a play area and a cafe, two miles south of Farnham on the Hampshire and Surrey border. Treetop adventures are also on site.
Photo: Christopher Hilton, CC BY-SA 2.0The remains of a grand medieval residence of the Bishops of Winchester, including a three-storey tower and the great hall windows built by William of Wykeham. The old lodging range now houses Bishop's Waltham Museum.
Photo: David Martin, CC BY-SA 2.0A small arboretum of trees from around the world on Rhinefield Ornamental Drive, cared for by Forestry England. A short sensory loop with tactile sculptures winds through the arboretum, and the Tall Trees Trail crosses the road to walk beneath Douglas firs and giant redwoods planted in Victorian times.
A Forestry England arboretum on the Rhinefield Ornamental Drive, where the 1.5-mile Tall Trees Trail runs beneath Douglas firs and giant redwoods planted in the reign of Queen Victoria. An easy arboretum trail and a sensory sculpture trail start from the same car park.
Photo: Paul Gillett, CC BY-SA 2.0An aquarium on the Southsea seafront with marine and freshwater animals in its exhibits and a programme of talks through the day.
Photo: Stuart Logan, CC BY-SA 2.0A Forestry England site on an old coaching route west of Lyndhurst, with some of the oldest Douglas fir trees in the New Forest, the earliest dating to about 1860. Three waymarked circular trails lead from the car park through ancient and ornamental woodland, and the longest passes a deer viewing platform where fallow deer are often seen.
Photo: Gordon Spicer, CC BY-SA 2.0An Elizabethan manor house completed in 1583, set between woodland and parkland on the western edge of the New Forest near Fordingbridge. Small guided tours take you through the state rooms and living quarters, and the Countryside Museum recreates post-war village life with farm machinery and steam engines.
An 18th-century shipbuilding village on the Beaulieu River where warships for Nelson's navy were built, including three that fought at Trafalgar. The museum and reconstructed cottages tell the story of the shipyard and the families who lived there, and the wide village street running down to the river is free to explore.
Photo: nick macneill, CC BY-SA 2.0A working farm on the South Downs with historic buildings, open fires and livestock, run as a living museum of ancient farming. Visitors can look around, buy snacks and bring a picnic.
Photo: Phil Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0A round artillery fort built by Henry VIII in 1539 to guard the sea passage to Southampton, standing at the tip of Calshot Spit with views across the Solent. Later used against smugglers and as an RAF seaplane base, it is owned by English Heritage and run by the neighbouring Calshot Activities Centre, whose shingle beaches are open to all.
Photo: Len Williams, CC BY-SA 2.0A town park in Fleet, run by Fleet Town Council, with a play area for children up to eight, a football pitch and pavilion, and a woodland area. Fleet Carnival and the Fleet Half Marathon start from the park.
Photo of Ringwood: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0A large park in the centre of Ringwood looked after by Ringwood Town Council, with a play area for children up to 14, a skate park, a cricket pitch and a bowling green. Next to the skate park, Carvers Clubhouse is a youth and community centre with a cafe and regular activities.
