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Welcome to Acton Scott Historic Working Farm
Tory is the shire horse who lives at Acton Scott Historic Working Farm.
WELCOME to Acton Scott Historic Working Farm.
In 2009 we opened with a new oak framed entrance building and reception hall, improved access, new traditional skills workshops, totally restored school house café and garden plus new trails around the farm. A range of impressive improvements have taken place to help you enjoy and understand life on a Shropshire hill farm at the turn of the 20th century.
School House café and Farm shop
Our delightfully restored School House Cafe opening up the original school room, serves delicious home-cooked meals, teas and snacks. Can be visited without admission to the farm. Available for private bookings.
Functions and Birthday parties? We can plan an individual celebration to suit you.
Visit our themed shop, reflecting the Farm, selling Victorian-style utensils, preserves, books, gifts and cards.
Opportunities to learn
Find out about woodland crafts, traditional building skills or animal husbandry. Ask for information about our new rural crafts and traditional skills courses for adults, or click on the button in the side menu entitled "Rural crafts and trade courses at Acton Scott".
Explore the farm
This is the farm yard, or "fold" at Acton Scott Historic Working Farm.
Meet the animals - Tamworth pigs, Longhorn and Shorthorn cattle, Shropshire sheep and Brecon Buff geese, Norfolk Black Turkeys, Aylesbury Ducks and a variety of hens wonder freely in the farm yard. Our magnificent heavy horses, Tory and Captain are around the farm every day working the land when required.
Meet the people - Costumed staff work on the farm carrying out daily and seasonal tasks. There is always something happening. There are weekly visits from the wheelwright, the blacksmith and the farrier while woodland craft workers produce besoms, rakes, stools and hurdles. Buttermaking takes place on Fridays and Sundays. Each day is rounded off with the hand milking of the cows.
Call us for specific information on demonstrations on the day you intend to visit.
Walk the fields
The Farm remains untouched by modern farming techniques. Stroll by the fish pool, through Lawn Field to Hall Meadow and discover more about this unique landscape.
Explore an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
This is a view of Wenlock Edge from Acton Scott Historic Working Farm.
The Shropshire Hills are rich in natural and built heritage. Man has been present here, making his mark on the landscape since prehistoric times. Acton Scott has evidence of occupation from as far back as the Iron Age and Roman periods.
Use the car park as a base for exploring further afield taking way marked paths into the surrounding hills. Other places to visit include the Long Mynd and the market town of Church Stretton, the Shropshire Hills Discovery Centre and Stokesay Castle at Craven Arms.