NT Knole

Historic house, dating back over 600 years, set in Kent's last medieval deer park.

Car-free offer: 15% off in Knole’s gift shop and bookshop when you show your bus or train ticket at the till

RHS Garden Harlow Carr

An inspiring family-friendly garden, with innovative designs, creative planting and practical ideas to take home

Car-free offer: £3.50 off entry when you come by bus or bike

Enfield

London’s most northerly borough offers flowering gardens, riverside walks and rural adventures, from Jacobean Forty Hall to wild woods and fields.

Snowdrops without a car

They herald the end of winter, forming beautiful carpets in woods and gardens. Here are ten different places where seeing snowdrops doesn’t need to involve a car.

Croydon countryside

Half an hour south of the centre of London, you can some beautiful walking country: flowering parkland, historic commons, woods and nature reserves.

Scarborough

With a good network of trains and buses, not to mention ferries and tramways, getting around Scarborough without a car is not just possible – it’s fun!

Malton

Yorkshire’s self-styled "food capital", has some idyllic trips to offer: take a bus into the wooded wolds for a picnic or a boat round Castle Howard’s Great Lake from a vine-fringed tearoom veranda.

Daffodils

Shakespeare’s Perdita longs for daffodils that “take/The winds of March with beauty”; here are six places to see daffs without a car.

RHS Garden Rosemoor

Enchanting gardens set in the wooded valley of the River Torridge

Car-free offer: £3.50 off entry with train/bus ticket or bike

High Wycombe

High Wycombe is an excellent hub for car-free adventures: Disraeli’s manor house and the Hellfire caves and are each just ten minutes away by bus.

Car-free Welshpool

A steamy ride on the Welshpool & Llanfair light railway, a stroll up to medieval Powis Castle, or an epic journey to the coast.

Castle Howard

A magnificent historic house, near York, with ornate interiors and artworks, set in 100 acres of parkland and landscaped gardens

Car-free offer: £3.45 off entry, when you show bus ticket

Hatfield

Elizabeth I’s childhood home, intricate gardens, miles of parkland, shops and cafes – all two minutes from the railway station ... and more beyond.

Oxford

Avoid the traffic and stroll through Oxford’s streets on foot; find flowering meadows, stride out along the Thames or ride a bus to Blenheim Palace.

Blenheim Palace

Historic house and gardens set in spectacular landscaped parkland on the edge of the Cotswolds.

Car-free offer: 30% off with train or bus ticket

Harlow “Sculpture Town”

Between the River Stort and Epping Forest, Harlow is great for walking. And it’s full of public works of art, gaining the title “Sculpture Town”.