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Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Award
We have just been awarded a second Quality Award for our learning programmes by the Council for Learning outside the Classroom. Contact our education officer  to organise a fun visit to...

The Stansted maze re-opens soon
The Stansted Maze re-opens on Saturday 11th February for half-term, then opens weekends and Wednesdays 1pm-4pm until the next school holidays (Easter) when it opens every day.

Stansted Park on the BBC
In November we welcomed BBC's Bargain Hunt with Tim Wonnacott to film at Stansted Park. The resulting films will be broadcast on BBC1 at 12.15-1pm on February 10th, 20th, March 2nd & 7th.



Watch the Stansted Park Video...

 

Filming at Stansted Park

For  information about Stansted Park as an accessible and authentic  period film location, please contact us. See more location images at www.localityonline.com ref.1279-84. 

View ARTSED's Becoming Jane shot at Stansted Park on Youtube

                 

 



The Stansted Maze



The Stansted Maze opened is 2011 as a great new fun family attraction.

The Stansted Maze is in the lower walled garden and is open 1pm-4pm (weather permitting) at weekends, on Wednesdays and in school holidays (including Bank Holidays) from February to October. 

The maze has just re-opened, opens all of half-term week 1pm-4pm, then weekends and Wednesdays  until the next school holidays (Easter) when it opens every day 11am-4pm.

There are over 500 yew trees and about a kilometre of hedging to be cut every year in the Stansted Maze. The yew trees were planted in 2002 and many are nearly 2 metres tall.

Admission: £3 adults, £2 children £10 Family ticket (if cheaper).

TIckets available at the gate, or from other attractions on site. On Family Days  and special event days, admission is only £1.

A new viewing platform gives great views across the maze and over the walled gardens towards Stansted House.

The maze can also be hired for private parties or team-building sessions - please contact us for details on 02392 41 2265. 



Please check our 'events' page to find out when there will be special days at Stansted Park, with reduced entry prices to the Stansted Maze. 

Ask for a free quiz sheet and look out for special secrets for families to find as they go round with little ones.

Please note: the Stansted maze is not suitable for large pushchairs or motorised wheelchairs, and all children must be accompanied by a responsible adult at all times

"We visited the maze today - it's my husband's birthday and he loves mazes - and it was terrific! Highly recommended!"

 

Thanks for photos to David Rose-Massom