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in Rossendale, Lancashire
England
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As seen on the BBC, ITV, CBS USA, Today Australia, The Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post
AND, most importantly, ROSSENDALE FREE PRESS
LATEST NEWS
Book a Goat With a Note
Have something special to say? Get a Goat to share your message via an edible note! Once your comrades have read it, the Goats gobble it up! Because good news is delicious. Click here to find out more. Only £10!
GOAT YOGA CLASSES 2021
Meet our WORLD FAMOUS Goats of video call stardom and hang out and do some Yoga in the barn with them. The experience includes time after the Yoga class for pictures and giving out treats to your favourite Cronkshaw Goats. £25pp. Click here for our class calendar.
Ascertain whether your colleagues, friends and family are paying attention by adding a Goat to your meeting. Click here to choose your fave Goat. Only £5!
VIRTUAL FARM TOURS
Book a virtual farm tour and virtually do our farm jobs with us via live stream video. Feed the hens, collect the eggs, check the goats and meet our sheepdogs, all from the comfort of your home! You'll have the chance to ask questions throughout. Sessions run daily, cost £18 with an unlimited number of participants and last for 20 minutes. Click here to book.
Byeeee Covid! We're open again from April 12th 2021! Stay in a Treehouse, Yurt, Shepherd's hut or the Old Farm Office. Special offer prices start at ~£60 a night for two people. Sunset views hot tub available to book separately. Click here to read more.
ONLINE FARM SHOP
WE'RE ON AMAZON PRIME!?
We can't believe we're typing this - but our tiddly wee farm has somehow made it's way onto Amazon Prime both here in the UK and in the USA! Mental! Check out the half hour documentary shot at the farm in summer 2019 following our slightly off the wall money making schemes as we attempt to save up for renewable power tech for our farm. Click here to watch. Available to purchase globally.
Welcome to Cronkshaw Fold
Located in the beautiful Alden Valley, Cronkshaw Fold is a traditional hill farm with a passion for environmentally friendly farming, animal welfare and teaching about the importance of sustainable agriculture. We run educational visits, host visitors for farm holidays and host environmentally friendly weddings in our barn, too.
We farm poultry, meat goats and sheep alongside our kitchen gardens, honey bees and broadleafed woodland. We use sustainable farming practices that promote a healthy environment, care for the countryside, increase local wildlife and preserve traditional rural skills such as dry stone walling, hedge laying, coppicing and companion planting.
All of our livestock are farmed in line with the RSPCA "5 freedoms" philosophy and have access to large outdoor spaces for grazing and foraging during fair weather including species rich mowing meadows. They also have indoor weatherproof accommodation for poor weather.
Climate change is something we are very concerned about. We have a great sense of urgency to do all we can to prevent our contribution towards emissions and help our visitors do the same. This includes working towards changing our current farming practices in order to grow produce with a lower carbon footprint. We are also working hard to raise money to invest in renewable power technologies so we can produce and store energy on site.
Where are we?
Cronkshaw Fold Farm & study centre
Helmshore
Rossendale
Lancashire
ENGLAND
BB4 4AQ
(~40 minutes North of Manchester)
BY CAR:
- 2 hours South of Scotland
- 4 hours North of London
- 40 Minutes North from Manchester Airport
PUBLIC TRANSPORT:
FLY:
Closest airport = Manchester then Leeds-Bradford.
TRAIN:
Closest train stations = Manchester (for those coming North from London/ Birmingham/ Wales way))
OR Accrington (for those travelling from Leeds / Bradford / Newcastle / Scotland way)
BUS:
Coming from Manchester, Blackburn or Accrington: X41
The x41 goes between Blackburn and Manchester. It stops in our village at Gregory Fold, Helmshore. Get off here. It's a 25 minute walk to the farm from the bus stop or a 5 minute taxi ride (google Kenyons Taxis, Haslingden for a local taxi.)
FOOD:
Neary's shop (a local shop for local people - but Mrs Neary is nice and will let you in if you are polite) is by the bus stop and has everything you could want if you're after buying supplies once you're here so you don't have to carry loads of food/ drink while travelling. DON'T YOU DARE buy eggs there though, you buy them from us or our hens will be very offended!