Acton Scott Historic Working Farm
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What an absolute gem. A hidden delight filled with hands on experiences of well loved animals by interesting and interested people. We will certainly be coming again.
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What a hidden gem this place is. Having been to many of the differing tourist attractions in and around the county, this has to be pound-for-pound right up there with the very best of them. It's just a lovely place with a team of staff members who do it proud. They are all so friendly and helpful and that all helps with the real feel-good factor you get just walking around. Set against a film-set backdrop of rolling hills and countryside, I can't think of too many lovelier places to be. Extremely reasonably priced. Fantastic - will definitely return.
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Used 2 take my kids there every easter when they growing up. So many lovely memories and now it was time to take my 2 grandsons. My kids and i relived our happy memories. Still the same. Great place if u want to see just how hard it was farming in years gone by. The staff so informative like years ago and nice 2 recognise some faces from the past. I would recommend it 2 anyone who interested in history of farming and the great outdoors. And great place 2 take kids
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Lovely visit with my sisters. Reasonable entry, free parking and very friendly staff. Good gift shop, tasty sausage sandwich and other food available by picnic benches. Saw lots of animals: baby pygmy goats, geese, pigs, chickens, ducks, shire horses, lambs, donkeys. Even got to hold a duckling and stroke lambs and watch piglets suckle. Nice informative place about victorian farm and wood craft. Safe covid measures and eady social distancing. Would recommend for families.
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Lovely place to visit, farm is wonderful. Nice seeing all the animals, especially Dusty the donkey .
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Absolutely great day out. Do not miss it. We arrived at 11am and left at 4pm. Lots to see. Guides are there to tell you more and for you to ask questions.
The animals are out working at different times, for example the Shire horses work in the morning and they get to go in and rest for a few hours. The forge was working all day. Tom was a super guy. He told us all about being a farrier and horse shoes are like human shoes, specific to each foot, who knew!
The animals are brilliant and well cared for. Piglets were born last week and we were able to get quite close. Goats were my favourite.
You will want walking shoes or boots. Wellies for kids. Take a picnic but although the school house cafe was closed, an improvised barbecue was available in the covered picnic area. Allergies are catered for.
My husband uses a wheelchair so we hired their Tramper for the day. Book in advance for this. No charge just a donation.
The animals are out working at different times, for example the Shire horses work in the morning and they get to go in and rest for a few hours. The forge was working all day. Tom was a super guy. He told us all about being a farrier and horse shoes are like human shoes, specific to each foot, who knew!
The animals are brilliant and well cared for. Piglets were born last week and we were able to get quite close. Goats were my favourite.
You will want walking shoes or boots. Wellies for kids. Take a picnic but although the school house cafe was closed, an improvised barbecue was available in the covered picnic area. Allergies are catered for.
My husband uses a wheelchair so we hired their Tramper for the day. Book in advance for this. No charge just a donation.
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Fantastic for our three year old, and the staff there were absolutely brilliant - great food supplied by Shropshire Hills Catering too!
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First time coming to the farm and we have had a fantastic day out. Cheap and affordable plenty of animals to see? Every staff member was super polite to us. The blacksmith man was amazing and super kind to our little boy and he is very happy with his horse shoe! Really enjoyed feeding the lambs and holding the baby chicks We will defo be returning. Great day out thankyou defo reccomend a day out here.
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Fantastic day out, the staff are friendly and helpful and the farm animals very well looked after. Highly recommended.
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We absolutley loved this place. So much to do in beautiful grounds and you can really get up close with the animals too. Little ones thoroughly enjoyed it too. Will purchase season ticket next time we visit.
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Update April 2021: Acton Scott is open again and we had a fabulous visit this week. Fascinating to have basket weaving demo from David and then have Tom the wonderful blacksmith make us our own horseshoe while we watched. A great time to visit now as there are baby goats, piglets and chicks and the lovely café is open, too.
Great working farm with friendly staff and engaging exhibits and animals. Lovely gift shop with a range of unusual items from local artists. We attended a super Halloween event with DJ gs and storytelling which was excellent. Going to go back on spring to see the heavy horses and maybe take a craft course.
Great working farm with friendly staff and engaging exhibits and animals. Lovely gift shop with a range of unusual items from local artists. We attended a super Halloween event with DJ gs and storytelling which was excellent. Going to go back on spring to see the heavy horses and maybe take a craft course.
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Lovely place, very friendly people, very informative would recommend to anyone with children, our children got to hold day old chicks (ducks and chickens) stroked lambs pigs and big Joe the horse they loved it.
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Lovely place, well worth visiting
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Had a wonderful time at the farm. A lovely place with lots of animals that you can get up and close with. All of the staff were really friendly, informative and helpful.
Due to covid regs we pre booked. It was really well managed and non intrusive yet still interactive!!
Highly recommend a visit!
Due to covid regs we pre booked. It was really well managed and non intrusive yet still interactive!!
Highly recommend a visit!
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This is an amazing interactive experience for the family of all ages young and old to enjoy. It was educational, fun and a friendly place to spend the day
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So good to be able to spend time at Acton Scott and curses to the lockdown as they were planning to be open until December. Their maximum capacity means it never feels over busy and the staff are knowledgeable and friendly. Roll on December 2
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Fantastic
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The farm was well worth visiting. Lots of interesting things to see and knowledgeable staff and volunteers to tell us about them. However, our day was marred by the attitude of the chef in the cafe, who shouted at us and was extremely rude when we politely enquired if our, fairly basic, order had been forgotten after a long wait.
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Fantastic day out, lovely friendly people. Loved seeing the animals run free. Would recommend anyone with kids to go here.
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A slice of rural life which contributes much to urban understanding.
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The farm was lovely although limited due to Covid. All the people working /volunteering were great too. Unfortunately we had an appalling experience with the chef. On politely enquiring if we'd been forgotten 40 minutes after ordering, he was disgracefully rude, shouting that he didn't care, wasn't interested, and to go away!! A thoroughly vile man, inexcusable behaviour. I recommend taking a picnic.
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Fascinating, enjoyable esp when all the little demos are up and working. A warm welcoming place bring your boots
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Great day out with young kids
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Great place to visit, plenty to see and it's so well kept, very clean and the animals all look really happy and healthy, worth every penny.
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Beautifully kept historic working farm with historical farming bits and pieces very interesting
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