Cronkshaw Fold Farm

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! 

We're Hiring!

If you care about our planet and want to do something practical to help tackle climate change you are the person we are looking for.

Our apprenticeship positions are now open. Anyone aged 16 or over can apply. Click here to read more.

 

Dusk Yoga

Love Yoga and awesome views? Click here to book on to yoga classes at the farm. Very limited availability due to small class sizes. Yes the farm cat does attend classes. Yes you can snuggle him.

GOAT YOGA

Meet our WORLD FAMOUS Goats of video call stardom over some Yoga in the barn. The experience includes time after the Yoga class for pictures and giving out treats to your favourite Cronkshaw Goats. individual tickets £25pp. Private groups £250. Click here for our class calendar.

Whoa you scrolled all the way down here! Kudos to our thumbs!

We're located in the beautiful Alden Valley in Northern England (think of a cross between Downton Abby, Winterfell)

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.

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.

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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.

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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.

Cronkshaw Fold Farm

Helmshore

Rossendale

Lancashire

ENGLAND

BB4 4AQ

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(~40 minutes North of Manchester)

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BY CAR:

- 2 hours South of Scotland

- 4 hours North of London

- 40 Minutes North from Manchester Airport

PUBLIC TRANSPORT:

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FLY:

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Closest airport = Manchester then Leeds-Bradford.

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TRAIN:

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Closest train stations = Manchester (for those coming North from London/ Birmingham/ Wales way)

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OR Accrington (for those travelling from Leeds / Bradford / Newcastle / Scotland way)

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BUS:

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Coming from Manchester, Blackburn or Accrington: X41

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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.)

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FOOD:

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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!