Wynyard Woodland Park's gift shop offers a wide range of gifts and goods to take away. Friendly staff are on hand to provide leaflets, site maps and to answer any queries from visitors. Leaflets are also available, providing information on local walks, local country parks and nature reserves, countryside events and activities and opportunities for volunteering in the field of conservation.
For those of you who may have worked up a thirst on your visit to the park, take-away drinks and snacks are available including tea, coffee and soup and a range of cool drinks, straight from the fridge. Stem hunger pangs with flapjacks, muffins, crisps or chocolate and no visit to the gift shop would be complete without a taste of our delicious, creamy Yorkshire Dales and Loseley ice-cream - try double chocolate, sticky toffee, strawberries & cream, honey with ginger or traditional vanilla - perfect on a warm day and delicious on cool days too!
A wide range of books are available to browse through or to purchase, on a variety of topics including: wildlife themes such as birds, flowers, trees, and a selection of local history publications, covering subjects such as railway history and archaeology. One of the most popular selling books is the ‘Castle Eden Branch’ Railway book that provides information about the site’s former use as a railway line. The book also includes some fascinating photographs of trains on the track, going past what is now the Visitor Centre. Children’s wildlife activity and reading books are particularly popular with the young ones and are a great memento to take home after a day out. We also stock a wonderful range of Usborne Craft Books, which prove extremely popular.
Since many of the customers on week days are children on school visits, visitors will find a whole range of value for money, good quality, pocket money toys to buy, such as wildlife notepads, rubbers, and pencils and the more unusual bouncing egg balls and stretchy rubber frogs, to name but a few. There is also a wide range of toys and gifts from traditional wooden toys such as old fashioned cup & balls and slate and chalk through to rather unusual wooden mobiles made up of bees, butterflies and other interesting creatures.
Budding young scientists will be interested in the selection of astronomy-related goods on offer that complement the work undertaken at the Planetarium, which is situated on site at the bottom of the car park. Customers can buy cosmic rockets, to build and fly at home, using vinegar and baking soda or how about a parachuting alien and a pot of mars mud!
Switch facilities are now available in the gift shop, with the minimum transaction value being £10, any transaction less than this will incur a surcharge of 50 pence.
