Livingston (Scotland)

Amusement park mostly for pre-teens, with museum, farm, rides slides and animals. The light railway is 762 mm gauge, hauled by a rinky-dinky industrial diesel, and runs weekends April-Sept plus daily in summer school holidays, £2 extra. Assistance dogs only.

A 4000-year-old ritual complex with Bronze Age and early Christian tombs. The burial chamber has been roofed over by a modern concrete dome but you can shimmy in.

This has been a religious site at least since the Bronze Age. In medieval times it was a base for the Knights Hospitaller of St John of Jerusalem, providing shelter and treatment for pilgrims. In 1298 Edward I of England was injured by his own horse before the Battle of Falkirk and was treated here. "Tóir Féichín" means a sanctuary boundary stone, once past it you were under church jurisdiction and secular bailiffs couldn't touch you. What you see now is mostly from 1400: the Preceptory was dissolved at the Reformation but the church continued in use.

Extensive contemporary sculpture garden and gallery. You arrive through artistic earthworks (no tobogganing please). The Steadings has an exhibition changed annually, then you stroll through the woods and try to figure out why each sculpture was so named. Tickets also needed for dogs.

Collection of owls, with flying displays.

Escape games: teams of 2 to 12 are locked in a room and have to solve a series of riddles, clues and puzzles to escape within the hour.

"The Lions" were relegated in 2026 and now play soccer in the Scottish Championship, the second tier. Their home ground is the 9000-capacity Almondvale Stadium aka "Tony Macaroni Arena".

Country club with spa, swimming pool, ten-pin bowling and golf course: white tees 6396 yards par 72.