5 Best Children's Farms In Nottinghamshire

Stonebridge City Farm is a community farm in the heart of Nottingham, and like most such projects it aims to stay accessible — but entry arrangements at small charitable farms change with their funding, so we'd rather point you at the farm's own site for the current position than state it here and be wrong. What we can say from our data: it's the highest-rated farm attraction in the county, and visitors clearly leave happy.

Programming, mostly. White Post Farm Centre runs the full commercial farm-park formula — scheduled animal encounters, activities through the day, and enough variety to hold children from opening to closing. The community and smaller farms offer animals without the apparatus, which is cheaper on energy and often better for very young children. Think of it as the difference between a show and a stroll; both have their Saturday.

Two of the five have indoor areas in our data: Stonebridge City Farm and Ferry Farm Park. That gives you one city option and one countryside option with somewhere to shelter, which is just enough coverage to keep a farm plan alive on a wet weekend. White Post Farm Centre, Floralands Farm Park and the seasonal pumpkin picking are open-air propositions, so save those for kinder skies.