Family

All attractions below offer free access to children under 15.

Visit Torstow’s biggest aquarium and meet thousands of aquatic creatures from all over the world in dozens of unique displays. All our displays are naturally themed and our fish and animals are kept in environments as close to their natural habitat as possible.

Tropical and reef displays, Pacific and Atlantic ocean displays and even unrivalled displays of British aquatic ecosystems featuring some rare surprises!

There is also a reptile house, populated by unique donations from UK and international zoos and managed by a specialist herpetology team. It features some exotic rarities, and of course Betty our celebrity tortoise!

Dive into our bright, clear ocean world at the heart of Torstow’s lively Harbour District!

Meet Gideon and friends at City Farm, offering a slice of country life and hands-on experience with traditionally rural animals. Dedicated to serving adult and child alike with a sense of agrarian wonder and the gift of knowledge!

More than just a functioning farm that makes every stage of the animal husbandry process into a workshop for urbanites and school classes to learn the ancient wisdom of the farms that feed us all, City Farm offers an award-winning Agricultural Museum, traditional English restaurant and a pub serving craft beer from our on-site microbrewery.

This five-hundred acre woodland river valley has been untouched by human development, being the ancient home of some of Britain’s rarest birds and woodland wildlife.

St Etheldreda’s is also the proud home of the ever-vigilant 'Loud' Lord Jack a rooster traditionally tasked with protecting our beloved city!

Lucette Observatory, the workplace of several noted Torstowlian astronomers, houses an historic telescope commissioned in 1869.

The telescope features achromatic doublet object glass with an aperture of 9 inches and a focal length of 114 inches. It is affixed to a German-form equatorial mount of the kind used in the Struve 9-inch, called the Great Dorpat Refractor, the Lick 36-inch and the Yerkes 40-inch telescopes. The entire sky is accessible to a telescope on this type of mounting.

The telescope is housed in the late Victorian observatory built for it and the grounds and buildings are maintained by Trust, on behalf of the Lucette estate.

The observatory’s gift shop and museum are open to the public 9 to 5, Monday to Friday and the telescope itself is open to public use on fortnightly Public Access evenings, usually on Fridays.