Below is a list of some National Trust properties and farms that you can visit. Before visiting farms you should read about health and safety on farm visits.

To find the nearest farm to you please contact your regional National Trust office.

West Midlands

• Brockhampton Estate
  The Brockhampton Estate is 1,736 acres of typical Herefordshire farmland and woods a mile east of Bromyard on the A44. There are two principle houses on the estate: the larger is mid-Georgian and not open to the public, but Lower Brockhampton House is. There are way marked walks through the woodland on the estate and maps showing these are displayed in the estate car-park. Farm tours are available by arrangement.
  
  Tel: 01885 482077 (estate office) or 01885 488099 (Lower Brockhampton)
  Email: brockhampton@nationaltrust.org.uk
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• Wilderhope Farm
  The National Trust has developed an exciting education programme on Wenlock Edge. School groups can now visit Wilderhope Farm, a low intensity 270 acre family-run farm, to learn about food production, livestock and the environment. The Trust's Education Officer works with the farm tenants to offer a range of activities, from guided walks through the farm and ancient meadows to story telling.
  
  Practical study sessions will give children the opportunity to examine samples and measure temperatures in the woodland and have a go at pond dipping and hedge planting. A travelling microscope laboratory will also be available to aid studies. The new education programme at Wilderhope Farm is a great way to teach the future guardians of the countryside about citizenship, geography, science and technology. Tony and Diana Dixon have run the farm for over 30 years and have just handed it to their son. They are the proverbial 'Guardians of the countryside', the processors of food production as well as maintaining our environment.
  
  Tel: 01694 724536

• Home Farm Attingham
  Home Farm is the original home farm at Attingham Hall. Most of the buildings are from around 1800, with the addition of some modern farm buildings. The farmyard retains a traditional atmosphere of a typical Shropshire farm. Tea-rooms provides a welcome rest with reasonably priced home made refreshments as well as ice creams.
  
  Tel: 01743 709243
  Email: info@openfarm.co.uk
  Website: www.homefarmattingham.co.uk

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East Midlands

• Calke Abbey
  Lambing in the spring takes place at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire, between the third week of March and the end of the second week in April.
  
  Tel: 01332 863 822
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• Monyash House Farm Learning Centre
  Monyash House Farm is a 300 acre organic dairy farm, part of the South Peak Estate on the White Peak plateau at 1,100 feet in Derbyshire. Monyash has a significant number of important species-rich hay meadows and limestone grassland.
  
  Recently one of the farm buildings has been converted into a learning centre. This site is particularly suitable for key stage three and upwards. There are a number of youth hostels nearby.
  
  Tel: 01335 350549

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East of England

• Wimpole Home Farm
  This Cambridgeshire farm has a rare breeds collection, including sheep, goats, cattle, pigs and horses. An activity called 'The Lunchbox' helps key stage one and two children understand the origins of the food they eat. During the session a lunchbox is unpacked and the origins of each piece of food is discussed.
  
  Tel: 01223 206004
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North West

• Borrowdale
  This is the location of the Trust’s first acquisition in the Lake District, Brandelhow Woods, on the lakeshore. Total Trust protection in the area today covers 11,806ha (29,173 acres), including 11 farms, half of Derwentwater including the main islands, the hamlet of Watendlath and sites with literary or historical interest such as the Bowder Stone, Friar’s Crag, Ashness Bridge and Castlerigg Stone Circle, a free-standing megalithic monument of 38 stones near Keswick.
  
  Tel: 017687 74649
  Email: borrowdale@nationaltrust.org.uk
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• Low Sizergh Farm
  The farm is located within the gentle, rolling hills of the southern Lake District in Cumbria and forms part of Sizegh Castle estate. The farm has organic dairy cows and laying hens but is perhaps best known for its award-winning farm shop, tea-room and craft gallery.
  
  Tel: 015395 60426
  Email: apark@low-sizergh-barn.co.uk
  Website: www.low-sizergh-barn.co.uk

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Thames and Solent

• Buscot and Coleshill Estates
  Buscot and Coleshill Estates have been piloting different approaches to farm and countryside education, from in-service training days for teachers, to visits by schools, colleges and universities and family learning weekends.
  
  The unique rural setting of the Buscot and Coleshill Estates provides ideal opportunities for science, geography, history, environmental and conservation work.
  
  Tel: 01793 762209
  Email: liza.dibble@nationaltrust.org.uk
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South West

• Coldcot Farm
  This farm is a tenanted farm on the 1,072 hectare Stourhead Estate, Wiltshire, and is largely an arable farm, with some livestock. School groups can see the workings of the farm, such as the machinery, animals, hedge-laying, tree-planting and see the variety of different crops grown.
  
  A visit to the farm could be combined with a visit to Whitesheet Hill or Stourhead Garden. Teachers' notes and farm worksheets are available for primary children.
  Tel: 01747 842012
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• Elbury Farm
  At Elbury Farm, on the Killerton Estate in Devon, tenants John and Sue Kittow are developing a mixed farming system typical of a West Country farm. The system will combine modern farming techniques with traditional farming practices, each enterprise being essential to the success of the others. Their approach to farming is wholly organic with even their dairy cattle being treated with homeopathic preventative remedies where possible.
  
  John and Sue are keen for schools to visit their 'truly integrated farming system' and will welcome any visits. Facilities are currently basic, but there are plans for an education base to be built within the next 12 months.
  
  Tel: 01392 462817

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North East

• Bradley Farm
  Bradley Farm is at the centre of Hadrian’s Wall and includes the land around Housesteads Fort. The farm is about 500 acres and is all permanent pasture. It has been farmed for the last 16 years by the Acton family. The farm had been run as a traditional hill farm stocked with suckler cows and hill sheep.
  
  Tel: 01434 344261
  Email: j.acton2@btinternet.com

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Wales

• Craflwyn, Gwynedd
  How sustainable is hill farming? Guided visits to working hill farms on Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales, uncover the answer.
  
  Tel: 01766 890664

• Hafod Y Llan Farm
  The farm is situated at the centre of Snowdonia in the magnificent Nantgwyant valley. It provides an ideal case study on Sustainable Development for students at GCSE and A / AS Level.
  
  Hafod y Llan is a 1,559 hectare farm and extends to the summit of Snowdon. The farm is run in-hand by the Trust by farm manager, John Till.
  
  Although the landscape may look like wild mountain, it is actually created and maintained by farming.
  
  A series of Curriculum-based programmes are offered at the National Trust’s Deilen Las Education Centre in the valley. These include farming in glaciated areas, sustainable development and agri-environmental schemes and rural change.
  
  Tel: 01766 890664
  Website: www.hafodyllan.org.uk

• Dinefwr Park
  Educational groups are welcome to explore this Site of Special Scientific Interest in Carmarthernshire. It is grazed and maintained by herds of White Park cattle and Fallow deer.
  
  Tel: 01558 823902
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