Birmingham Airport 36 min
Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre (17 min) 15th-century battle site museum with hands-on gallery, kids activities and guided battlefield walks. Tropical Birdland (19 min) Small aviary for getting up close to a wide range of birds, including owls, macaws and kookaburras. War Memorial Park (25 min) Parkland with a visitor centre, kids' play area and sports facilities including 12 football pitches. Hartshill Hayes Country Park (20 min) Peaceful, leafy park with a visitor centre, walking trails, playground & a weekend tea kiosk. Herbert Art Gallery & Museum (28 min) Eclectic, hands-on local history and culture displays from collections, plus temporary art shows. Twycross Zoo (26 min) Family-orientated nature centre filled with primates, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, plus dining. Coventry Cathedral (28 min) Modern, 20th-century place of CofE worship plus the Medieval ruins of the building bombed in WWII. Coombe Country Park (18 min) 500-acre park offering walking and wildlife in woods and by lakes, a restaurant and craft studios. Jewry Wall Museum (24 min) Ruins of a wall from a 2nd-century-CE Roman bath complex, with an adjacent archaeology museum. Coombe Abbey Hotel Ltd (23 min) Leicester Cathedral (25 min) Medieval building with ornate sculptures, a Georgian spire plus regular tours and choral services. Victoria Park (28 min) Sprawling city park known for its striking war-memorial arch, ambling trails, playgrounds & fields. Leicester Museum and Art Gallery (26 min) Victorian museum with Ancient Egyptian and natural history collections and 18th-20th century art. Stoney Cove (12 min) Destination for scuba diving in a flooded quarry with viewable wrecks, submarine & submerged trees. Coventry Transport Museum (27 min) State-of-the-art museum covering public transportation, the auto industry, cycling and eco concerns. |