TO SEE AND DO

Whether you are staying in the Cottages or attending a meeting at the Rural Centre you are welcome to enjoy our on-farm activities at Walton Thorns Farm.

CYCLE HIRE

During your stay you might like to hire one of our four cycles which are available. Please bring your own safety helmets.

FARM TRAIL

The trail has been created around the farm to allow visitors the opportunity to walk and enjoy our lovely English countryside. The trail is marked and you will have a plan of the trail with distances and features highlighted.

On the marked trail you will pass two woodlands - Walton Thorns and Craddock's Ashes, ponds, streams and hedgerows. You will wander along the sides of our cropped fields growing wheat and oilseed rape.

Our fields are farmed by us in an environmentally aware manner. We use chemicals and fertilisers only when necessary to produce a safe quality product. We take great pride in our farming and we hope you enjoy walking around our farm.

There are many species of birds to be seen - buzzards, chaffinch, gold finch, yellow hammer, song thrushes, black birds, robins, wrens, various tits, green-finches, doves and kestrels to name a few.

Look out for the barn owl at dusk or if you are lucky you may have a day-time sighting like this one. Hear the buzzards call above the trees or look on top of the telegraph posts to see them watching for their prey in the grass.

VINTAGE AND CLASSIC TRACTOR COLLECTION TOURS

On the farm we have a collection of vintage and classic tractors which we have built up over the years. There are Fords, Ford conversions, County, Roadless, International and a Fiat Versatile.

We are happy to give guided tours of these tractors for those who are interested.

There are numerous Vintage Tractor events nearby throughout the year, for example, Newark, Belvoir Castle, Rempstone Steam Rally, Diseworth and Harby. We welcome anyone who is exhibiting or visiting any nearby events and who may need accommodation in our Holiday Cottages.

LOCAL ATTRACTIONS

• The National Space Centre, Leicester
• Leicester City Museums
• Great Central Railway, Loughborough
• Bell Foundry Museum, Loughborough
• Nottingham Castle
• Belvoir Castle, Near Grantham
• Melton Mowbray Market (Tuesdays)
• Ye Olde Pork Pie Shoppe, Melton Mowbray
• Rutland Water
• Bradgate Park, Newtown Linford
• Newark Showground Events
• Twin Lakes, Melton Mowbray
• Ragdale Hall Health Hydro, Ragdale

And for the active:-

• Golf at Park Hill, Beedles and Six Hills (all 18 holes and all less than 5 miles away)
• Fishing at Lakeview, Holwell
• Narrow Boat Hire on the River Soar
• Cycle hire at Rutland Water