Peak District Working Dairy Farm For Filming Of Drama And Commercials

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Traditional organic dairy farm with some large traditional sheds and 1970s barns, a long ivy clad limestone farm house with 2 B&B rooms and creepy cellar.Close to varied useful locations, stepping stones, Dovedale gorge, caves, Swiss-chalet style Victorian village, large manor house, old country churches, woods and rivers.The farm is set in stunning National Park landscape in the centre of England, between Birmingham, Derby, Sheffield, Manchester, Stoke on Trent.On offer for filming:Inside* Interior of B&B: 2 bedrooms with ensuite shower rooms, sitting room glass ceilinged breakfast room.* Big, well used family kitchen, with little crooked stairs in a cupboard, access to old pantry and creepy, unkempt cellar:- worn steps,- old lime washed barrel ceiling,- old stone slabs.* Romantic tiny stone cottage for 2 with mural ceiling.* Converted stone barn: wheelchair accessible cottage for 6.* Artist's paraphernalia.* Stone barn adjoining house restored as eco-wedding venue, 2 storey, glass balcony, original hay-rack, small bar, food prep room, toilets- could be used as a base.Outside* Exterior of farmhouse and traditional barn, 1970s farm sheds.* Swedish style hot tub and small cave with wood burner.* Well maintained country garden with separate 'rooms', garden furniture, old garden chess set, fire pit, small mature pond.* Old mere (man-made pond) shallow, overgrown and reedy.* Friesian Cows, calves, sheep, lambs born in April.* Milking parlour.* Farm machinery: tractors, muck spreader.Setting* Organic farmland, with dramatic views of valleys and hills, elevated and distant vantage points, sloping rough pastures with pre-roman settlement traces, dry stone walls, some broken down, hill top grass and clover meadows.* Large trees and scrubby bushes, hares and birds.Other facilities* Business like, helpful, enabling owners. (Editors Comment: Extremely friendly, welcoming and flexible too!)* Caterers and accommodation are available locally* Accommodation for to 14 people at the farm* Owners have wide range of expertise including organic farming, small scale cheese production, eco-tourism, renewable energy, folk art.Getting hereIn the Staffordshire Peak District, just north of Ashbourne, beside picturesque Dovedale gorge,- 40mins from M1 Derby- 1 hr. centre of Manchester- 1.5 hr. centre of Birmingham
 

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