Swan Barn Farm

Landscape view across fields at Swan Barn Farm

Important notice -

Please do not travel to Black Down if it's outside of your local area. Our car parks are at capacity. Please do not park on roadsides or verges. We ask all visitors to follow guidance on social distancing to keep everyone safe.

A quiet retreat of woodland and pasture only 30 seconds from Haslemere High Street

More about this place

Blackcap bostal white against the dusk on the South Downs

How to enjoy your local countryside 

Welcome to fresh air and open space. Our countryside spaces are currently open for people who live locally to exercise outside. This is in line with government guidance to: 'exercise with your household (or support bubble) or one other person, this should be limited to once per day, and you should not travel outside your local area.' Local means 'stay in the village, town, or part of the city where you live'. We ask all visitors to follow guidance on social distancing to keep everyone safe.

Visitors dog-walking at Ickworth, Suffolk

Taking the lead on the South Downs 

The South Downs are a great place to walk your dog, so there's always somewhere near to you where you can enjoy this rich countryside throughout the year.

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Swan Barn Farm

Our work

Countryside rangers hedge laying

Conservation at the heart of it all 

Find out what the Countryside Rangers get up to...

View of underside of roof and joinery

Crafty woodsmen 

Nestled in the most southern point of Haslemere, Swan Barn Farm is characterised by its heavily wooded surroundings. The towns name describes it as “Hazel-” tree standing beside a “-mere” (lake). It is not surprising then that much of the local cultural heritage is influenced by woodland trade and craft.

Belted Galloway cattle, Box Hill, Surrey.

Conservation grazing 

Ever wanted to find out more about our herd of Belted Galloway's....

Heathland in bloom on Black Down with grazing belted galloway cows

Ranger diaries: behind the scenes during lockdown in the South Downs 

The UK may be in lockdown, but work has to go on to care for our animals in the South Downs. See the cattle and newborn lambs on our Lead Ranger's daily rounds on the Black Down estate and find out about the essential work that goes on behind the scenes.

Panoramic view at sunset in August from Devil's Dyke, South Downs, West Sussex

South Downs sites we look after  

Discover the incredible diversity of countryside sites across the South Downs, from chalk grassland to river valleys, beech hangars and chalk cliffs.

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