Most visited free attractions in East of England 2021

The Abbey Gardens was the most visited free attraction in the East of England in 2021, welcoming around 1.3 million visitors. This figure showed roughly a 25 percent increase compared to the first year of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and surpassed the number of visitors recorded in 2019.

Most visited free attractions in the East of England from 2019 to 2021 (in 1,000 visitors)

Characteristic	2019	2020	2021
Abbey Gardens (Bury St. Edmunds)	1,229	1,021	1,276.9
Clacton Pier*	-	450	741
Needham Lake and Nature Reserve*	379.6	335.3	390.2
Fitzwilliam Museum	349.5	104.3	98.8
RSPB The Lodge Nature Reserve*	60	60	70
Firstsite*	-	54.7	57.7
Airborne Assault Museum	118.1	40	56.3
The Natural History Museum at Tring	151.8	50.7	52.3
University Museum of Zoology	134.7	31.2	46.9
St Edmundsbury Cathedral*	70.7	29.4	41.6

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Release date

September 2022

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Region

United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

2019 to 2021

Special properties

excluding country parks

Supplementary notes

*Estimates. 2019 data for Clacton Pier and Firstsite were not available.

Figures have been rounded. Free attractions have been ranked according to the highest number of visits in 2021.

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