Fabulous place, you cannot do it all in one day and it's being continually added to and lovely staff and volunteers. A must see and a gem of a place to visit.

The only reason why it has 4 and not 5 stars is the map, signage, information and the cafe running out of food early afternoon. I've put these at the end of this post.

Fir some reason, I cannot label the photos today, I will see if I can revisit later!

Entry: free entry, but prebook £6 per car to park on site.

Covid Safety: Prebook only. Covid social distancing signs and gel.

Weather: the site is open air, sunblock when hot weather even when cloudy, sensible shoes and clothing for different weather conditions.

Accessibility: good. Lift one end. Disabled toilet with shower the same end. Lpos near the cafe. Disabled parking relatively near the centre. Wide even entrance, automatic doors and graduated paths most areas. Steep steps in part of the castle and garden area.

Refreshments: most closed at the moment, the site is large and we headed back to the cafe in the main building early afternoon and most of the food had run put.

Shop: good range of goods, ££-£££

Staff and Volunteers: very friendly and helpful, but many not well versed in the exhibits, some were a mine of information.

What to see: exhibits in the main building, houses from different centuries starting with reconstruction of an Iron Age Chieftons double roundhouse through to the 20th century. The Castke, Lord Plymouths Country Home and the Gardens. Delightful woods and a working farm.

Adventure Playgrounds: forest adventure and several play areas.

Areas for and suggestions for Improvement:

1. The map does not match the paths.
2. Waymarker posts are few and far between (they could also do with having the numbers on them).
3. Exhibition Centre was not in sequence and the information was puzzling at times, could do with location maps for some of the finds clearer and a little more detailed information sections.
4. Information we had a lot of questions in various sections and some guides knew veery little and the information was not in the guide files. Example, there was a fabulous full dinner service with gold rims in one farmhouse, but no information on any of the plate or in the guide file as to the manufacturer and no one the guide new to radio for the information.
5. The site is huge, most refreshment places were closed. We made our way down to the cafe and managed the last 3 sandwiches, plus Baba Brith and Welsh Cakes. The hot foid section was closed. Staff were lovely but we surprised at such a major attraction running out of food early afternoon.

Suggestion trail a number of visitors or give them recording machines to see how they find their way around and what needs tweaking.