| Easton Farm Park 08:00 - Jun 26 with 3031 views | Mullet |
We used to go as kids most years. I’m bringing my 3 year old down this summer to Suffolk, is it a decent day out?
Open to other suggestions too for youngsters in Suffolk if anyone has any. Cheers etc |  |
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| Easton Farm Park on 08:52 - Jun 26 with 2591 views | BarcaBlue |
It was a few years since I took my kids there but I reckon it's half a days' entertainment at best. They enjoyed crabbing at Walberswick and boating at Thorpeness around the same time. |  | | |
| Easton Farm Park on 09:45 - Jun 26 with 2514 views | theinbetweener |
I wouldn’t say it’s worth the money tbh. There isn’t an awful lot there and like the other poster has said, it’s half a day’s entertainment at best. You can get round it all within an hour and come away feeling pretty underwhelmed. Jimmy’s Farm offers 10x more, very much recommend trying there if you haven’t been already. |  | | |
| Easton Farm Park on 10:02 - Jun 26 with 2498 views | Pendejo |
Are the answers so far they the eyes of 20/30/40 somethings?
Or the eyes of a 3 year old learning the big side world where an empty card board box is a potential adventure? |  |
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| Easton Farm Park on 10:13 - Jun 26 with 2478 views | BlueBlueBluex2 |
Whatever you decide avoid Jimmy’s Farm at all costs. The biggest family outing rip off I have ever encountered. |  | | |
| Easton Farm Park on 10:22 - Jun 26 with 2453 views | Tangledupin_Blue |
| Easton Farm Park on 08:52 - Jun 26 by BarcaBlue |
It was a few years since I took my kids there but I reckon it's half a days' entertainment at best. They enjoyed crabbing at Walberswick and boating at Thorpeness around the same time. |
Yes, the boating lake at Thorpeness. When my lad was little we went two or three times every summer. Cream teas over the road.
On the same trips we often took in Orford for fish and chips and to see the lifeboat. Or Leiston Abbey is good for an hour. Halcyon days... [Post edited 26 Jun 2021 10:53]
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| Easton Farm Park on 10:41 - Jun 26 with 2395 views | theinbetweener |
| Easton Farm Park on 10:13 - Jun 26 by BlueBlueBluex2 |
Whatever you decide avoid Jimmy’s Farm at all costs. The biggest family outing rip off I have ever encountered. |
I disagree. When was the last time you visited? It has so much more to offer than most. They have recently opened up the little monkey enclosure. My 1 year old boy absolutely loved it - but was very underwhelmed with Eastern Farm Park, which is very limited. Jimmy’s is much more value for money IMO. | | | |
| Easton Farm Park on 10:44 - Jun 26 with 2387 views | hype313 |
| Easton Farm Park on 10:13 - Jun 26 by BlueBlueBluex2 |
Whatever you decide avoid Jimmy’s Farm at all costs. The biggest family outing rip off I have ever encountered. |
I'd normally agree with you as it was an absolute stitch up a few years back, but they have made some big changes and its far far better than before, when you spent 30 sheets to see 2 goats and a butterfly. |  |
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| Easton Farm Park on 11:03 - Jun 26 with 2361 views | Swansea_Blue |
There's a blast from the past. I haven't thought of that place for must be at least 30 years. Used to go quite lot when I was a kid. It was a regular for school trips too. |  |
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| Easton Farm Park on 12:03 - Jun 26 with 2320 views | Illinoisblue |
Time travel back 40 years and go to Kilverstone Wildlife Park instead. Peacocks and dwarf horses await |  |
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| Easton Farm Park on 12:07 - Jun 26 with 2309 views | solemio |
Who was the ITFC director who owned Easton FP? Was it John Kerr? | | | |
| Easton Farm Park on 12:12 - Jun 26 with 2296 views | Guthrum |
| Easton Farm Park on 11:03 - Jun 26 by Swansea_Blue |
There's a blast from the past. I haven't thought of that place for must be at least 30 years. Used to go quite lot when I was a kid. It was a regular for school trips too. |
I don't remember there being anything very much there when I last went, but that would have been some time around 1980. |  |
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| Easton Farm Park on 12:14 - Jun 26 with 2272 views | footers |
I have no clue what children enjoy but, as someone mentioned above, surely a spot of crabbing at Walberswick is a good, cheap afternoon out? |  |
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| Easton Farm Park on 12:46 - Jun 26 with 2250 views | bazza |
Dunwich Heath is good for the kids, you pay to park but I think it’s free, you can do nature trails and pond Dipping, right by the beach, there’s a cafe for cream teas or take a pack
Lunch, lovely place to walk and explore. |  | | |
| Easton Farm Park on 12:48 - Jun 26 with 2246 views | bazza |
| Easton Farm Park on 12:46 - Jun 26 by bazza |
Dunwich Heath is good for the kids, you pay to park but I think it’s free, you can do nature trails and pond Dipping, right by the beach, there’s a cafe for cream teas or take a pack
Lunch, lovely place to walk and explore. |
There’s a bird watch tower above the cafe.. | | | |
| Easton Farm Park on 13:51 - Jun 26 with 2199 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| Easton Farm Park on 12:46 - Jun 26 by bazza |
Dunwich Heath is good for the kids, you pay to park but I think it’s free, you can do nature trails and pond Dipping, right by the beach, there’s a cafe for cream teas or take a pack
Lunch, lovely place to walk and explore. |
Shhhhh!! .....and then a quick stroll down the beach to Minsmere and a lovely view of "the moon falling down" as Junior once said. |  |
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| Easton Farm Park on 13:53 - Jun 26 with 2198 views | Mookamoo |
| Easton Farm Park on 12:07 - Jun 26 by solemio |
Who was the ITFC director who owned Easton FP? Was it John Kerr? |
Yes. It's owned by Kerr Farm |  | | |
| Easton Farm Park on 14:09 - Jun 26 with 2182 views | bazza |
| Easton Farm Park on 13:51 - Jun 26 by BanksterDebtSlave |
Shhhhh!! .....and then a quick stroll down the beach to Minsmere and a lovely view of "the moon falling down" as Junior once said. |
Yep, cracking part of the coast along there, some lovely pubs around that area as well for a spot of lunch. And a few IPA’s. | | | |
| Easton Farm Park on 14:21 - Jun 26 with 2168 views | BlueBlueBluex2 |
| Easton Farm Park on 10:44 - Jun 26 by hype313 |
I'd normally agree with you as it was an absolute stitch up a few years back, but they have made some big changes and its far far better than before, when you spent 30 sheets to see 2 goats and a butterfly. |
To be fair was a good five years since I went but the kids still refer to it as ‘Jimmy’s Crap Farm’ | | | |
| Easton Farm Park on 14:26 - Jun 26 with 2159 views | bazza |
| Easton Farm Park on 14:21 - Jun 26 by BlueBlueBluex2 |
To be fair was a good five years since I went but the kids still refer to it as ‘Jimmy’s Crap Farm’ |
Gotta love kids honesty 😂 | | | |
| Easton Farm Park on 14:26 - Jun 26 with 2159 views | Steve_M |
| Easton Farm Park on 12:03 - Jun 26 by Illinoisblue |
Time travel back 40 years and go to Kilverstone Wildlife Park instead. Peacocks and dwarf horses await |
And the adventure playground there was really good too. Probably used to burn off some energy so parents had a quiet car journey home. |  |
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| Easton Farm Park on 14:31 - Jun 26 with 2140 views | Steve_M |
Is over the border but Bressingham Stream Museum used to be good when we were kids, miniature steam trains always good.
He’s probably a bit young for Orford Castle but that’ll be good when he’s a bit older. | |
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| Easton Farm Park on 16:20 - Jun 26 with 2056 views | Mullet |
Cheers hive mind, award yourselves thumbs up all round. Lots of food for thought.
Walberswick, Minsmere and Dunwich are all definites at some point. Excellent call on Christchurch park. The family can go there between 2:30pm and 5pm on the Saturday after a nice pub lunch and I pick up some bribes from Planet Blue. | |
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| Easton Farm Park on 19:14 - Jun 26 with 1979 views | bazza |
Loved Chritchurch park and the mansion as a kid and Ipswich museum.. took my kids there for a
Day, and after walking round for 5 minutes decided they were bored !! And was so gutted as I was having a whale Of A time looking round after so May years having not been. | | | |
| Easton Farm Park on 20:01 - Jun 26 with 1944 views | stonojnr |
| Easton Farm Park on 10:41 - Jun 26 by theinbetweener |
I disagree. When was the last time you visited? It has so much more to offer than most. They have recently opened up the little monkey enclosure. My 1 year old boy absolutely loved it - but was very underwhelmed with Eastern Farm Park, which is very limited. Jimmy’s is much more value for money IMO. |
a monkey enclosure ? and what part of Essex/Suffolk do these little monkeys originate from? at least in the beginning Jimmys farm had some relevance to the kinds of animals they had, if they are just going to turn it into a poor zoo just as an attraction, Im not entirely sure thats of benefit.
the way I remember Easton Farm Park back when I were a kid, and loved going there, was it was always a working farm, which I think over the years has been diluted for elf n safety reasons & animal welfare,as well as profitability, the dairy especially youll find a herd of cows can quickly chomp through more feed and cost you more than you are getting by selling their milk for (blame the supermarkets for that one), such that yeah theyve had to cut back, and its probably no more than a half day attraction now. | | | |
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