Our Farm Trails
Waymarked trails
Dog friendly
Picnics
Mobility scooter hire
Pop on your welly boots and follow our waymarked, free-to-access walking trails, for an idyllic wander through our pastures, woodland or along the banks of the River Tern. Well behaved dogs are welcome on leads.
Trail lengths range from around 30-70 minutes, depending on which one you follow. We are a great central meeting place – even your four-legged friends are welcome on a lead (and in the café too).
Enjoy our café space, Arthur’s Farm Kitchen, or feel free to bring a picnic to enjoy in our picnic areas, or beneath the shade of a tree.
As a working farm, we may sometimes need to close trails due to farm activities or weather conditions. Always check our Welcome Shed next to Betty the Tractor before you set off – this will let you know which trails and fields are open or closed on the day.
Remember to always follow the Countryside Code!
Opening Hours:
Tues - Sat: 9:30am - 5pm
(Cafe: 10am - 4pm)
Sun (whole site): 10am - 4pm
Site closed between Christmas
and New Year
Mud Kitchen and Betty the Tractor
Next to our café you'll find ‘Betty the Tractor’, which was wonderfully restored by Arthur Hollins’. Next to Betty you'll find our Mud Kitchen, a sensory walk and more items to climb and discover. Children should be supervised at all times.
As little legs venture down the valley and into our woodland, they will find wood and metal wildlife sculptures, tyre swings, dens to be built, a roundhouse in which to enjoy a story, and there are always bugs to be found under the logs!
Community Garden and picnic area
At the start of our farm trails, you will wander through our community garden – a space lovingly maintained by our Care Farm group.
They compost all the food waste from Arthur’s Farm Kitchen café to grow fruit and vegetables in this area. They are normally around Tuesday to Thursday, and they love to say hello if you happen to be visiting us then.
Feel free to relax in this space; children may enjoy the compost cottage, or shelter in our human-sized pig arc with a picnic and snacks.
Family friendly seasonal trails
We run exciting quarterly seasonal trails to encourage little legs to wander further!
Current trail: ‘Water 4 Wildlife Trail’ – running from summer holidays onwards.
Follow the trail to find the minibeasts and learn why they are great!
Stop by the café after and pick up a sweet treat as a reward. Activity packs are £2.50 per child available from the café or Farm Shop.
Farm access for all
We want as many visitors as possible to experience all areas of our beautiful farm. Generous donations to our Appeal for Change enabled us to fund a wonderful all-terrain mobility scooter/'Tramper'. This offers the less mobile the freedom to explore the further reaches of the farm.
Thanks a kind donation from supporter Mel Jackson, we have been able to introduce a series of braille signs, featuring raised pictures and braille words. They can be found around the pig paddocks and community garden – opening up a tactile experience for visually impaired visitors.
To find out more, please see our accessibility page.
Floating Paths
Our wonderful volunteers work hard to maintain our trails.
In some of the particularly boggy areas they have installed some floating paths. These use Fordhall sheep fleece as an underlay, which prevents the aggregate from sinking into the mud – just as the Romans did!
Be a citizen ecologist
Keep an eye out for both wildlife and livestock as you go – depending on the time of year you might come across lambs, woodpeckers, piglets, bluebells, herons and butterflies!
Let us know what wildlife you’ve seen by visiting our Nature Spotting page.
Enter our photography competition
Don't forget your camera when you go for a wander! We run an annual photography competition, where one winner can have their photo featured in our calendar, as well as receiving a free copy and a £5 voucher!