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Avon Valley Country Park

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The park offers a variety of rides for children including Chair-o-planes, a small children's chair swing, Dino Jeeps (a dirt track with dinosaur animatronics where children drive miniature electric jeeps), the Big Red, an outdoors drop slide, the Strawberry Line Miniature Railway, and the Play Barn
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railway. It is Britain's only commercial ground-level 5 in gauge railway. It opened in 1999 and now has one steam and 10 mock diesel engines which are battery operated.
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The site was common grazing land in the 15th century and later became a farm. In 1976, it was purchased as a "
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Within the park is the Strawberry Line, a 0.75-mile (1.21 km) length of
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Fallow Deer
Avon Valley Country Park is located in Somerset
Country park
Keynsham
Somerset
Coordinates
51°25′02″N 2°28′30″W / 51.4171°N 2.4749°W / 51.4171; -2.4749
country park
Keynsham
Somerset
pick-your-own
Strawberry Line (Miniature Railway)
gauge
"Avon Valley Country Park"
the original
"Call of the wild"
"History"
the original
"Garden Railways"
the original
"The Railway"
the original

Avon Valley Country Park
Official website
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Somerset
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expanding it

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