Sacrewell farm

This is our new house ...

no, just kidding! This is where we went today and this is the old Miller's house and very interesting it is too. There's a working water mill and you can go inside the house and view how it all works (lots of literature on the walls) - Ben was really interested in all this (because of all the gogs and gears). The house also has a few 1940's decorated rooms and again lots of relevant literature and hands on areas.

The reason we went here today was to really check out the educational facilities available for our local HE group to use later in the year. Looking round their huge new centre and discussing prices only took 10 minutes and then I was invited to spend some time in the farm only having to pay the entrance fee for Katie and Ben. As the weather was so wonderful, we spent the best part of the day here.

Apart from the mill there's lots of animals and the farm now also houses about 8 beautiful shire horses in its new Shire Horse Centre. We were able to stroke most of them, one was especially docile, he nearly fell asleep on my arm (I obviously have that effect on things!).

Here's some piccies.


Feeding the lambs was lovely. Their bleats became louder and louder the closer the clock got to midday!

Lots of waterfalls, brilliant for games of Pooh Sticks.

This duck took a shine to us, along with some others. In the end we weren't sure if they were chasing us, or we were chasing them.

Sacrewell has some lovely pathways into "secret" areas. We had lunch near here with a greedy goose for company.