Wonderfull, peaceful place with amazing views and walks. We visit on hot days, take a picnic with…read moreus a put our feet in the streams! Bliss! You do need to get here early on these days! You do have to pay for parking but that is it! The shop and cafe are nice and sometime there are books for sale!

This is the place to come to if you fancy getting away from it all. Barr Beacon is about 3 miles…read morefrom walsall town centre and is one of the highest points in the west midlands. The top on the hill has fantastic panoramic views. On a beautiful sunny day you can see iconic areas and buildings such as Cannock Chase, Lichfield Cathedral and Birmingham City Centre. They have a lot of lovely pathways for walk like the beacon way and the 2 mile circular trail. It has many other trails too which are yet to be explored. i was there on a warm sunny day, this place offers secluded spots for a nice picnic or sunbathing. The only problem is it lack basic facilities like toilets and a shop/ cafe to buy food and drink. There was a ice-cream van but prices were a rip off. £3.00 for a simple flake ice-cream cone. They have benches if you bring your own food. But this place needs some money pumped into it to bring it up to scratch. This place is beautiful it needs basic facilities. The bandstand like memorial stand was built in 1900's and the roof is made from copper which has aged and blends into the hues of landscape well. inside is a small pedestal has a map of how far surrounding areas are from this pin point location. Theres two car parks off Beacon Road a north car park which is less busy, but i used the south car park which was busier and was where the memorial monument was. this place is very popular with dog walkers, families with picnics, people playing football and there was a kite flyer too. This place has stunning amazing views, i recommend this place highly.

Beacon Hill is one of the highest hills in the West Midlands. A fact, it is the highest point…read morebetween here and Ural Mountains in Russia, On a good day you can see Wolverhampton, Walsall and Birmingham, Shropshire and Wales. On a very clear day you can see the Bristol Channel. As well as its wonderful views, it also has good wide open space, a couple of football pitches and some flat ground on top of the hill.

Well worth a look when visiting Kinver or walking Kinver Edge. People lived in these rock houses up…read moretill the 1950's - cool in summer and warm in winter! Built into sandstone cliffs you can go inside (small charge) and see how they looked.

UNEQUALLED CUSTOMER SERVICE! The team at Nickolls and Perks…read morejumped through flaming hoops and bested monumental obstacles to satisfy this customer! I needed a special discontinued whiskey for my father's 85th birthday. An internet search service led me to Nickolls and Perks who stepped up to the task beautifully! I have the treasured bottle in hand ready to present to my Dad next week thanks to a dedicated staff of workers. Bravo!

England's only remaining inland electric funicular railway! Open all year round to get from Low to…read moreHogh Town. Just £1 return jouney and saves using the steep steps. It was built over a century ago and has been transporting the people of Bridgnorth up and down the 111 ft sandstone cliffs that separate High Town from Low Town and the River Severn. The railway operates two carriages on parallel tracks. Connected by steel cables, the carriages serve to counterbalance each other - as one rises to the top station, the other runs to the bottom station. The cars are now powered by an electric winding engine, but were originally driven by a system of water balance, each carriage carrying water ballast in a tank beneath the passenger compartment. You have to take a ride on this!

Fantastic the shortest and steepest trainline in the uk!read more

A great mini-mining experience in the opinion of our family…read more This is one of the larger of the 1,500 or so freeminers mines in the Forest of Dean. You get rigged up at the start with helmet and head torch following which you're taken on a short walk to the mine and then gradually around 200 feet under ground. Our guide, a freeminer himself, provided a very interesting and entertaining commentary. He took into account the fact that we had young kids with us and explained in simple terms our our 5-year-old, how kids his age would have worked in the mine with their fathers, opening and closing ventilation doors to let the ponies through and to keep the fire that drives the ventilation. We experienced the total darkness at the bottom of a mine and saw the hardworking conditions in which freeminers did (and still do) work underground. All in, a fascinating, fun and informative visit.

Ystradfellte is the Brecon Beacon's Waterfall country and its also were I grew up so its a place I…read moreknow well and love very much. Its a place that a lot of people in Wales know of just because of the fall and the caving complexes. The most famous of the waters is Sgwd Y Eira. If you have seen the advertising posters for Brecon Water this is the waterfall in the picture. Its a fairly easy walk apart from the steps as you get near and its one of very few waterfalls that you can actually walk underneath, though do expect to get sprayed a bit. I personally prefer some of the walks around the other falls which are much quieter in the summer and offer refreshing pools to swim in or picnic by. In all my years of living here I have never got bored of walking the area, its different all the time. Just a note to vistors the two main car parks charge a daily fee and a national parks ranger goes between them. If you want to avoid the fee park in the village itself and walk a bit further, tempting as it may be to pull up on the verges near the car parks I have seen so many break in's that you really are risking it a bit.

Dudley's real ale event of the year over 70 beers plus ciders from all over the UK . lots of great…read morefood at decent prices . very popular standing room only on an evening . music every night .Event held over three days in the only place big enough to hold it . Beers get up to 12% strength Its a great night out .

We came to visit Puzzelwood and really wanted this to be a magical experience. This, after all, is…read moreclaimed as an inspiration for Tolkien's middle-earth! The geography and paths through the moss covered rock formations are amazing. The people managing the site also do a great job of letting the natural beauty speak for itself, but include some tasteful activities that help younger children stay interested. To be clear, we did the whole site with a three and a six year old, involving a lot of going up and down rough hewed stone stairs. There were no complaints ; a magical feat in and of itself! Beyond puzzelwood forest, the site offers pens of farm yard animals, a small play area and a nice little cafe with some very good home-made soup. Our experience was a bit marred by Puzzelwood's close proximity to a motocross course. During 90% of our stay, there was a race going. The thick smoke/odor from the two-stroke motorcycle engines and the constant noise from the bikes made the experience decidedly less magical. Also given the steep £23 entry price for the family and the crowds of other visitors, I couldn't shake the feeling that I had fallen into a bit of a tourist trap. All in all, I was glad I went, but perhaps wished I'd spent my time visiting another part of the Forest of Dean.

What a great family, outdoorsy day trip Puzzlewood was. The forest is beautiful; staff was so…read morefriendly; farm animals were really enjoyable; so many photo ops. Between us 4 adults and 2 toddlers...we all had a great time!