Attractions down at the farm

Heavy Horses

These gentle giants are renowned for being hard workers. From battlefield to farmland, this noble horse has been used for farm work and commercial carriage horses for centuries.

Heavy horses are also used for trail riding, parading and showing and can weigh 1600 pounds or more meaning they can eat up to twice as much as other horse breeds!

Main Barn

There are lots of things to see and do at Farming World. In the main barn you are able to get up close to the animals and interact with them.

Children love not only seeing the animals but also the fact they can be hands-on and touch them to see how they feel.

Entrance & Gift Shop

After being greeted by our friendly staff (unfortunately not dressed in animal costumes), you can purchase tickets, find out about any upcoming events and learn how to stay in touch and share your pictures and videos of your farmtastic experience.

Anything and everything farm and animal related can be found in our gift shop: from wonderful souvenirs to educational toys and a range of enjoyable books and DVD's.

Indoor Play & Cafe

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse! Well, we hope you won't have to with our range of meals, snacks and refreshments from our café to satisfy your appetite.

The Indoor Piglet's Play Barn is our huge, soft play area with ball pools, mazes and climbing fun. Let your little piglets run wild whilst you put your hooves up and have some refreshments from our café.

Get stuck in at our DIY craft corner and create your own souvenirs to take home or have your face painted!

Alpacas

These funny, gentle and curious characters really enjoy visits from children (especially when they bring feed). Alpacas are from the same family as camels and used for clothing, their fleece is softer than cashmere and angora.

Not to confuse alpacas with llamas, alpacas are normally half the size as a llama and rarely spit – and only at each other, so don't forget to get up close and bring some yummy feed or juicy grass!

Bee World

A great opportunity to get really close and personal to the life of bees. Don't worry, there's no risk of getting stung!

Children can enjoy learning about bees, the important role they play in farming and nature, how honey is produced and harvested and more!

Horse Stable Area

Heavy Horses were used for driving freight and Shetland Ponies were used down the coal mines. Horses are normally considered friendly and intelligent but sometimes you get one that is stubborn and mischieveous!

Come and visit the horses here at Farming World, see the stables and feel free to muck in!

Peacock Enclosure

**Coming soon**

Peacock and pea-hens always seem to be competing for attention! Come and see the male's most colourful displays as he extravagently struts around.

Fantastic photo opportunities and experience of colours all from nature's own paintbrush.

Lawnmower Museum

For the adults there's something a little bit different. With over 50 lawnmowers, The Lawrence Family Mower Museum is home to the largest collection of mowers in the southeast.

A gentleman called Edwin Beard Budding from Stroud, Gloucestershire invented the lawn mower around the 1830's. He realized one day that he thought he could invent a lawn mower from a machine that he worked with in a cotton mill, called 'The Napper'.

Hop Picker's Hut

The hop picker's hut is a replication of the living conditions of the seasonal hop pickers. Very basic living conditions! A small hut with bed and cooking utensils.

Step back in time as to the living conditions of a whole family during hop picking season in Kent and you'll be reminded how much luxury your house has!

Main Event Arena

The event arena is where our special events are held. From sheep herding, dogs shows to heavy horse shows.

There's always something going on down at Farming World so be sure to check out any upcoming events.

Cattle

Did you know that cows have 4 stomachs? That's udderly amazing!

Well not to milk it but we have a range of cattle breeds here at Farming World. From White Park cattle (rare), Dexter cattle (small) to the huge and hairy Highland cows.

Sheep

Wool you believe it? Here at the Farming World paddocks you can find quite a few types of sheep, including Soay, Wensleydale, Devon, Jacob and Kent sheep!

Ewe might also spot that sheep often eat facing each other and always eat with the wind blowing behind them!

Goats

No kidding, there's Pygmy and Angora goats to be found at Farming World.

These are extremely curious and intelligent animals and it's always fun to watch the young kids playing when in season.

Soay Sheep

We're not pulling the wool over your eyes, these sheep are the wild ancestors of your regular sheep and come from the small island of Soay.

Did you know? "Soay" is an old Norse word meaning "Island of sheep"!

Extremely agile and much smaller than the domesticated sheep, Soay sheep are worth checking out.

Pigs

Oink oink! There's nothing more inviting than a nice mud bath...

We've gone all higgelty piggelty down at Farming World. There's many rare breeds of pig to discover, including Saddleback, Kune Kune, Minature Vietnamese Pot Bellied and Gloucester Old Spot pigs.

Kune Kune Pigs

There's nothing boaring about our Kune Kune pigs. They're not exactly a rare breed, but are very limited in numbers: only about 2000 Kune Kune pigs worldwide!

The power of 3... Pigs make great mummys and they're pregnancy lasts for 3 months, 3 weeks and 3 days! Maybe that's where the idea came from for "The 3 Little Pigs"?

Dexters

You herd it here first, Dexter cattle are the smallest of the European cattle breeds; about half the size of your traditional moo-cow.

They maybe small, but these cows are great for keeping our grass short! Make sure you come and see them in action.

Heritage Centre

The heritage centre holds a wide variety of tools and equipment along with information of how things were used and grown etc, in bygone years.

There are also larger implements to discover such as plough and seed drills along with the smaller metal hand-held tools like the hoe and rake, etc.

Mini Golf

Miniature golf, mini-golf, midget golf, goofy golf, shorties, extreme golf, crazy golf, adventure golf. Whatever you like to call it, it's always fun for all the family!

Next time you're at Farming World, why not grab some refreshments and play a round of mini-golf?

Jumping Pillows

Let your little piglets go wild and jump around on our amazing and colourful Jumping Pillows.

We uncovered these Jumping Pillows when we were ploughing our fields and legends say that they were once the belly of a giant rainbow pig!

Main Play Area

With 2 large adventure playgrounds and a special under 5's play area, you can let your little farmers relieve some of their energy whilst having a lot of fun!

There's slides, swings (including a special needs visitor's swing), ladders, sandpits, and rumble bridge!

Picnic areas are close by so you parents can sit back, relax or have some food and refreshments.

Pygmy Goats

This little pygmy went to market. No that's not how the nursery rhyme goes. These small goats really enjoy jumping on things and can actually jump quite high!

Pygmy goats are quite picky too! Always demanding fresh water (or they won't drink it), want to jump around all the time and love having friends around (even if they're not other Pygmy goats).

Sound familiar parents?

Shetland Ponies

Originating from the Shetland Islands, Shetland ponies may be short, but are very strong and were first used to pull carts and plowing farmland. In fact, they are the strongest of all horse and pony breeds!

Today, Shetland ponies are mostly used for horse shows and ridden by children. At Farming World, our Shetland ponies mainly just enjoy the countryside and especially like regular visits from familys and children.

Hawklands Centre

With over 40 birds of prey, ranging from owls, hawks, eagles, falcons and vultures, there's plently to see at the Hawklands Centre.

Be sure to check out the Hawklands Flying Arena for information on daily bird displays and more!

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Hawklands Flying Arena

There are two displays per day (except Mondays) and in these two displays you can come out and fly a bird or just stroke and feel the birds in person.

There are lots of other birds too, that breed every year, so during these times you can interact with the baby birds and see the difference between their parents.

Tractor Rides

Tractor and trailer rides are available through the day along with horse and car rides, which is something a little bit different!

Ride around our fields and learn where and how some of the vegetables that you eat are grown.

Please note that our tractor trailer rides are weather permitting!

Big Pig Play Area

It's not quite Hogwarts but is the best play area at Farming World for your bigger piglets.

There's nothing boaring about the play pen as it includes slides, rattle bridges and what's best is it's fenced in so you can view the wild at play from a safe distance!

Cows

Moooooo! Dairy cows are getting a lot of work in TV nowadays thanks to milk and other dairy adverts!

We have many breeds of cattle within the Farming World paddocks so come and see for yourself and learn where your dairy and food comes from and the different breeds of cows there are.

Llamas

Llamas are very social animals and are extremely curious. Mostly (depending on their mood) they will come and say "Hi" to all visitors at Farming World.

Did you know? Llamas have been around for about 40 million years, originally coming from North America!

...And the Inca (remember Disney's movie "The Emperor's New Groove"?) used llamas as a symbol of nobility.