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

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.

Westonbirt The National Arboretum

Experience around 2500 different species of trees from all over the world

Car-free offer: 30% off entry with valid train or bus ticket, or bike

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

Falmouth

Explore the subtropical South Cornish landscapes by train, bus, boat, or on foot from Falmouth, a busy port with the world’s third deepest natural harbour.

Waddesdon Manor

French Renaissance-style château, home to the Rothschild Collections of paintings, sculpture and decorative arts

Car-free offer: 2for1 entry with a train ticket and voucher*

Enfield

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

Bath

Enjoy boat trips, waterside walks, museums, gardens, parks, panoramas and – yes - baths in Bath. And reach them all without a car.

Car-free around Cambridge

Cycle downriver to Grantchester, catch a train to see Shepreth’s red pandas or hop on the bus to visit bird-haunted lakes at Fen Drayton.

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.

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.

RHS Garden Wisley

Flagship garden of the RHS and one of the great gardens of the world

Car-free offer: 25% discount on entry with train/bus ticket or bike

Bluebells by bus and train

Exploring the UK in April and May means carpets of woodland bluebells - here are five car-free places for a springtime stroll.

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.

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.

Alnwick Castle

One of Britain's icon castles and the second largest inhabited castle in England, also famous from Harry Potter films...

Car-free offer: 20% off with a bus ticket