This is a great place to visit with the kids. They have a lovely farm shop with gifts and fresh…read moremeats with a butcher to answer all your questions. They also have a cafe that where we had brunch. Great friendly staff. Food was fresh and tasty. We will be going back.

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This is a really good facility in our region, although to be honest, they could make a lot more of…read moreit! It's basically an ordinary farm, but the public are allowed to go round and see all the animals - for a fee of course! It's council run, so the fee isn't too bad, actually. As you enter there is a little shop where you pay your entrance fee and can buy little souvenirs, and also some little bags of food for the goats. The first bit you come to after the shop is a pond and a load of ducks and geese. Beware, if you start to feed this lot they won't ever let you leave in fact they will follow you in quite a menacing way! It's a bit scary, especially if you've ever seen any Alfred Hitchcock films you know what I mean! The farm also has pigs, sheep, horses, donkeys, cows, etc. Depending on the time of year you might be lucky enough to see tiny little lambs, which are really cute. Then go back a few months later and find them actually quite scary and intimidating things with gigantic horns and an evil glint in the eye! There are also, of course, the goats. They are so cute, and will eat everything. They loved the little bags of food we'd bought so much that they not only ate the food, they ate the paper bag, too. There was nothing we could do to stop them! There is also a little play area for the children, with swings and a few other things. You can happily while away a few hours here, especially if the weather is nice. Often they have special events on, like once we went and they would actually let you have a go at milking a cow. Other events have been children's things like making Halloween masks, or making bat boxes. You usually have to book in advance for these events. All in all, it's a nice place and the children really seem to enjoy it - but I do feel it's under-used, and the council could make it so much more if they actually tried.

I visited Big Sheep Little Cow while staying in the area on a family holiday…read more This is a great attraction with lots to keep the kids and adults entertained. There is an excellent indoor play area, some outdoor play areas with go karts and ride on trikes..., and of course a huge selection of farm animals for your little ones to learn about. There is a cafe serving lunches and refreshments, and a party area upstairs. It cost us £24 for two adults and my three year old to access the playbarn and go on the farm tour, and my one year old went free. You can pay less just to access the playbarn, without going on the farm tour. This seems to be a great spot for parent and toddler meet ups. The farm tour was really excellent - lasting around an hour, with the opportunity to hold/pet mice, rats, Guinea pigs, and hedgehogs in the indoor small animal section. We then moved outside and saw goats, llama, pigs, donkeys, Shetland Ponies, sheep, chickens and ducks. There was lots of opportunities for the little ones to interact with the animals such as brushing the pig, sitting on the Shetland pony and feeding the hungry lambs. We all had a great day out at Big Sheep Little Cow and my three year old in particular got to try out new things through interacting with the farm animals. Special mention to all the lovely staff we came across - everyone was so friendly, and we all left smiling!

Fabulous place for kids and animal soppy adults. For the entrance fee you get a tour of the animals…read more- usually lambs, calves, a pig you can wash, rabbits, guinea pigs, ferrets, chickens etc.If you visit at the right time you can feed the lambs and or calves. You can also pay a little more and use their indoor play barn (adults can go on the equipment too!) with a death slide etc. They have a decent cafe and at peak times the tractor ride and go-karts are open. A great day out - or party destination. Dry or wet weather.

Fab service considering the new situation with COVID and and lovely selection of food, homeware and…read moreclothes to choose from. Overall a fantastic experience.

Modern style buildings with ample parking. - large farm shop, home produced meat etc - Gift shop ,…read morevariety of baskets - Cafe, freshly prepared food. Outside have a Camel (Kevin) Lamas and Ostrich, Kids play area. Well worth stopping when on A66. One of the best of it's type , but why oh why are farm shop products so much more expensive than supermarkets?

Farm shop with cafe, kids play area, animals for kids and tractor rides…read more Amongst other products we buy practically all of our meat from here because the quality is very good and is all home produced beef from rare breed belted galloway & dexter cattle. The meat is hung for 3 weeks and instead of being sold fresh, it is all frozen instead of many other farms who sell fresh and what does not sell then is frozen. You can buy here with total piece of mind knowing that you have full traceability on the products. They also sell their own potatoes what we buy per sack. They have won a number of food awards, prices are quite reasonable and staff are efficient and friendly. The farm itself is medieval and time team from TV have completed a programme what is due to be on TV Jan 2009. This is a fantastic place to shop so please go and try it. I have no problem recommended this to anyone. This place is really the bees knees as far as quality of food goes

First and foremost, this is a local brewery that supplies the area with some excellent real ales…read morebut if you want to sample them at their best, their is a nice small bar with 4-5 of the beers on tap. I had the Sundowner and Nell's Best (which I'd had before in pubs) and you will not get a better quality ale than this. The restaurant, eating area is nicely organised and a cross between a cafe and a bar-restuarant. We went for a mid-week lunch and settled for a very nice collar of pork, settled on a mound of black pudding mashed potatoes, pork medallions and the Thurs special of Beef Olives. All were served with a large family style platter of fresh veggies which were perfectly cooked. We were all very happy with our meals. They are child friendly and have high chairs ... and the service was excellent especially from the lady from the kitchen who came up to check that we were ok a number of times and also catered to getting some bread up as our baby, was getting antsy. There is an outdoor area and a kids play area so parents can sample a pint while the kids play. My only criticism is that their bottled beer is sold at the same price as I can get in other places, I would have thought it could be 15-20% cheaper (or sold as a pack of 12+ for a bigger discount) as I would have thought bulk sales would have benefitted all. We'll be back

The joys of having small children - basically you always find yourselves at the most random of…read moreplaces and this occasion a random trout farm in the middle of a Friday was the 'said activity' So yes random but also awesome - for £4 you can buy a ticket to go on a nature walk around the park seeing all sorts of farm animals, trout hatcheries and farms, live bee exhibits, butterfly and wild flowers exhibits, red squirrels (hiding as always the sneaks!) but yeah on a lovely day this was the perfect place to be and enjoy some fresh air and have a picnic up the top. There's an enticing restaurant and cafe onsite but we just got some fresh trout to go which was amazing - so tasty and definitely worth picking up!

Great family day out! Great opportunity to get the kids into nature and give them an understanding…read moreof where food comes from!! The children's fishing pond is very reasonable and kids are guaranteed a bite or two, just be aware you have to buy what you catch so don't go over the top! They even gut and clean the trout ready for you!! (And they tasted great)!!!!

We go here often. Great coffee. Great food. Friendly service…read more Pizza's are particularly good You can reserve a table to which is handy as it can get very busy.

New, airy, & the tastiest little biscuits in the world grace the saucer of your cup of tea!…read more This place may take a little finding - apparently the council won't allow them to put any signage on the A66 - but it's worth the effort. The cafe / restaurant when we went on a wet Tuesday in early January was quiet, perhaps unsurprisingly. We were allowed to drink our tea & read magazines in peace while our little'un wandered around saying hello to the very friendly staff. Great views over the fields & of the sky even on a grey day made it feel very calm. The shop / bakery / butcher looked very tempting, with an interest & tasty lookong range of interesting local / organic / whole food but as visitors to the area there didn't see much point in stocking up so I can't say more than that. In addition, of particular interest to me, its an Eco building with grey water toilets, turf roof etc. That alone merits a look, no? Worth making the effort to visit & support this place - it deserves to do well.