Special Offer
Hire a chicken coop! At Feathersdown Farms your experience will be a unique one. One experience will be to hire your own private chicken coop. Both an educational and fun activity where you cant get eggs any fresher and children will learn!
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Special Offer
Cooking....but a little bit different In many Featherdown Farms you will be able to hire a Smoke Barrel for £39.50. In this you will receive ingredients, fire wood, recipe and a smoke barrel. From this you can enjoy a meal for four using your very own smoke barrel - a real taste of the outdoors! Find out more here.
Price
from £195 in low season to £415 for tents for a weekend break, on popular bank holiday weekends. Midweek breaks and week breaks range from £195/£345 in low season and £439/£679. Boxes of wood are now free, but other items are available from the honesty shop. Other items available for hire for your stay include, Kitchen Linen Package, Childs Playpen, High Chair for Child, Travel Cot, Towels package and Bicycle hire.
Accommodation
each tent has 1 double room, 1 bunk bed room and the famous canopy bed which would sleep 2 children or 1 adult. Feather Down is a fantastic proposition for a group of 5 families. Each tent has a flushing toilet, running water (cold only) and a small wood burning stove. The kitchen is fully equipped with pots, pans, crockery, cutlery and various kitchen utensils (whisks, corkscrews, etc). There is a large cool chest that you keep cold with iced water bottles that you pick up in the farm shop. There are paraffin lamps with hooks all around the tent to hang them up as well as a hanging candelabra above a large kitchen table which seats 6.
Facilities
on each farm there is: - An honesty shop selling provisions such as eggs, milk (fresh from the cow), bread, bacon sausages, etc as well as the essential boxes of wood and kindling. - A Feather Down hen house where fresh eggs can be collected daily by guests
- A traditional wood fired oven lit once each week (or stay) for breads, pizzas, stews, roast chickens; anything you like really, so probably worth doing a bit of research beforehand.
- The paddock a small collection of petting animals, for example, lop eared rabbits, chickens, sheep, and shetland ponies etc
- Bike rental a collection of bikes including child seats, but it’s advisable to book them before you leave. (plus remember this is a farm and it is probably not the same as cycling in Holland) Hot showers! Set away from the tents and usually near the farm house. Pets are welcome on, but should be kept under close control near livestock.
Location
tents are sited in woodland on a secluded field, and are perfectly placed to enjoy great views of 'Devon’ Countryside. Children will love playing in the ‘adventurous' but very safe surrounding woodland. Through the woodland on the site runs a gentle stream, an ideal place to play a 'water works' game with the children or to cool down in summer. The farm itself is situated between the beautiful village of Corfe Castle and the Victorian seaside resort of Swanage, in an area known as the Isle of Purbeck.
