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A farm holiday is one of the best options for a family staycation. From cool campsites to converted barns, these are a few of the top choices for a bucolic break.
Forest of Bowland
The Forest of Bowland on the edge of the Pennines, is recognised as an Area Of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Owned by the Gorst family, this former goat farm has canvas lodges with indoor and outdoor showers and a wood stove.
Feather Down offers a four-night stay in a lodge sleeping up to six from £455.
Wheatacre Hall
Eight luxury converted barns offer high end facilities in the surrounds of a dairy and arable farm on the Suffolk/Norfolk border in the Waveney Valley. The homes have hot tubs and a games rooms with pool, table tennis and table football. A further play barn is available for children, while adults can work out in a fitness barn.
Farm Stay offers a week’s stay from £465.
Tintagel Duck Farm
Guests are invited to pitch their tents on the laid-back Cornwall coastal farm, where feathered friends are the main entertainment. Gaggles of friendly ducks waddle around the farmland foraging for food, along with groups of turkeys and chickens.
Pitchup.com offers a non-electric grass tent pitch from £20 per night.
Scrogg House Farm
There’s a long history of farming at this idyllic site in the Rawthey Valley, near Sedbergh in the Yorkshire Dales.
Surrounded by free range chickens, donkeys and Highland Cattle, Boskins Cottage (sleeps four) was once the lower section of an old threshing barn and takes its name from the old dividers used in the lower section of the barn.
Two-night stays from £218.
Northumberland Farm
A traditional farm with grassland supporting cattle and sheep alongside cereals such as wheat and barley, this is the place for guests eager to get a hands-on feel for rural life. Join the farmer on a tour of the farm or help him on his morning rounds to check the animals.
Admire the night sky from the veranda of en-suite canvas lodges.
Feather Down offers a four-night stay in a lodge sleeping up to six from £485.