Coate Water Country Park (Swindon)

I am lucky enough to have this place right on my door step. It is a great place to go to when the hot weather arrives. As well as the obvious lake that you can take a nice stroll around or fish in Coate water also has a small snack kiosk which is fairly reasonably priced from which you can buy drinks, ice creams and burgers etc., it also has a pitch and putt green and a mini golf course both of which are cheaper if you have a Swindon card. Pitch and putt costs £5.10 without a card but only £3.90 with one. It has a nice kids play park complete with sand pit which back in the day I used to love going to. Unfortunately the kids paddling pool that used to ...  Read the complete review

On Easter Monday there was unexpected hot weather and my mum suggested that we spend the day at Coate Water. I wasn't very enthusiastic, I had been to Coate Water a million times before and wasn't overly keen on spending my precious bank holiday there. However, when my mum suggests something everyone knows that it's not really a suggestion and that we will all end up doing exactly what she wants. I don't think there's much point in me describing the layout of the park when there's already a map that shows the layout much better than I could ever describe it. http://www.swindon.gov.uk/coatebitmap1.pdf When we first arrived at Coate Water we spent ...  Read the complete review