National Memorial Arboretum
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Easy to find. Well marked and well kept car park, £3 per car per day or £25 per year. No cost for entrance into the facility but obviously donations are welcome-it costs some £4,000 per day to run. Took the little train around at £6 each, c. 50 minutes. Gave you a good feel to where things are. The little Church has a small act of remembrance at 11 am-not to be missed. The facilities on offer are excellent, the loos, the restaurant (Superb brekky), gift shop etc, but the whole area and tributes are magnificent. You could get lost in thought and reflection for a whole day. Fitting, classy tribute.
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Visited today (Sunday before Remembrance Sunday) and the weather was very kind to us - which meant we were able to wander around and spend time reading the information at the memorials. This place is vast and well worth a visit. The grounds are well kept, good toilet and cafe facilities. The day was very moving and central to this is the memorial dedicated to all who have lost their lives serving our country. We paid our respects and found the names of local heroes who died serving. Very humbling experience. We saw an elderly lady walking around the main memorial with medals on and it was very poignant that we have so much to thank all the people who served in The Forces for our today, still living or having given their lives - named on the walls therein. I shed a tear and thanked God for each and every one of them. I will return again someday as we did not have enough time to get round the whole site today. Well worth a visit for all age groups.
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Not our first visit and still spent several hours walking and reflecting. Lucky again that it was a very quiet day. This is a place, I think, where you need time to think about what lies behind the memorials, particularly when you visit, as I do, to pay respect to relations, and their friends, who served in the UK forces.
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Superb place to visit. This is our 3rd visit and we will keep on going. Will never get bored.
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Lovely place . Heart warming
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Excellent place to visit, in fact beautiful and peaceful.
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Beautiful and respectful, very moving.
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Visited to place tributes on services memorials.
Easy parking and not expensive.
Very friendly and knowledgeable staff.
Land Train ideal to see main areas and work out layout of the 150 acre site.
Very well maintained grounds and signage.
Restaurant and coffee shop good value and quality.
A very enjoyable and emotional visit.
Easy parking and not expensive.
Very friendly and knowledgeable staff.
Land Train ideal to see main areas and work out layout of the 150 acre site.
Very well maintained grounds and signage.
Restaurant and coffee shop good value and quality.
A very enjoyable and emotional visit.
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Wonderful, thought provoking
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A great place for reflextion.....
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This is in a beautiful setting the trees are now maturing nicely and there are many memorials to look at the main memorial is eye catching and can be seen at different angles thru the arboretum.it is very humbling to see the amount of people who have lost their lives whilst serving in the armed services since the 2 great wars .a lot of thought has gone into the memorials as to where there are laid in the arboretum .lots of people where there whilst we were visiting the new centre is very good and the catering facilities are good with lovely food and facility to do take away drinks you can take with you around the park the remeberence exhibition well worth a visit
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Fantastic place - laid out so beautifully. Very peaceful and moving - the main memorial is superb. Staff very helpful and friendly. Amazed at the amount they have achieved since we last visited.
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Beautiful calm peaceful. What it represents made me think about life and the waste of life.
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Very special emotional place
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Lovely place kept in beautiful condition. Very helpful staff. Very sad that so many have died and still they fight. Such awful loss and still people won't talk
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We just did not know what to expect but were "blown away" by the number (350, I think) and quality of the memorials. Some very harrowing displays in the "Far East" section but they have to be seen.
We booked seats on the land train and were so glad we did as this is the only way to see all the memorials and know the history of them via the running commentary.
Brilliant day out which we finished by taking refreshments in the superb restaurant.
Delboy, Chesham
We booked seats on the land train and were so glad we did as this is the only way to see all the memorials and know the history of them via the running commentary.
Brilliant day out which we finished by taking refreshments in the superb restaurant.
Delboy, Chesham
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We visited 2 days ago. We had a beautiful day to view almost the whole place. We walked rather than use the train. A handheld map would have been useful. The volunteer staff and shop staff were excellent. Well worth the trip and we will go back.
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Beautiful well kept memorials. The area has been well thought out and is maintained well
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Brilliant and peaceful. Awe inspiring.
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Very good
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We went here as a family with teenagers having seen it featured on the news showing the poppy display. It is a massive, very well thought out place. The memorials are moving, but also beautiful. Entry is free and the carpark is £3 pay and display.
We took the land train (£15 for a family of 4) around the site, which was a great way to see many of the monuments and get a commentary about them. We could then choose the ones we wanted to walk to and see up close. We wanted to see the Armed Forces Memorial - truly beautiful, and very moving for us as a military family having known some of the people whose names were on it. We also went to see the Basra and Afghan memorials. Another one that was very moving was the Shot at Dawn memorial. There is so much to see, and it is a remarkable place.
We took the land train (£15 for a family of 4) around the site, which was a great way to see many of the monuments and get a commentary about them. We could then choose the ones we wanted to walk to and see up close. We wanted to see the Armed Forces Memorial - truly beautiful, and very moving for us as a military family having known some of the people whose names were on it. We also went to see the Basra and Afghan memorials. Another one that was very moving was the Shot at Dawn memorial. There is so much to see, and it is a remarkable place.
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Wishing to visit this place for a while I finally managed to do it on 29th October and I was not disappointed. Everyone who works there are very friendly and only too willing to make sure you have a good time. It is a wonderful moving place. If you have not been before I would recommend a trip on the train to get your bearings following which you are free to wonder and see the many monuments in memory of not only our brave service personnel but every day people whose lives have been lost. I will definitely return
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This exceeded my expectations, as I had not realised how many individual memorials there are, as well as the main one, which I had seen pictures of.
There is also a WW1 trench with actors at the moment, which provided an interesting contrast.
It was quite busy when we went, even on a chlliy October day, but it was always possible to find a quiet corner to remember those who gave their lives for us, in too many conflicts.
There is also a WW1 trench with actors at the moment, which provided an interesting contrast.
It was quite busy when we went, even on a chlliy October day, but it was always possible to find a quiet corner to remember those who gave their lives for us, in too many conflicts.
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A very thought provoking place. Important that our military history and those that gave their lives are remembered .
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Really beautiful, peaceful and moving. We Will Remember them.
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