East Penrest Farm

Listen to larks and watch buzzards wheeling in the sky over our idyllic, 120-acre, organic farm while you ramble over the fields and let your children loose to get happily muddy playing in streams, building camps in ancient oak woodland or fishing for trout in the River Inny. Then return to the comfort of a sensitively converted barn, which, whilst being superbly equipped, maintains all the atmosphere of an ancient stone farm building. Most of our visitors do not seem to want to stir off the farm - and they are welcome to lend a hand and learn about lambing, haymaking, hedge laying or whatever the seasonal work happens to be. The fields are comparatively small with most of the boundaries marked by traditional Cornish hedges, which are full of a variety of plants and wildlife. There are 10 acres of woodland (mainly oak), most of this being registered ancient woodland. Streams run down through the farm to the River Inny and we have made a small lake, which attracts ducks and other aquatic wildlife. This is a paradise for anyone who loves wild flowers and birds or who simply wants to wander round the farm and soak up the peace. We are on hand in the old farmhouse across the yard to help in any way we can, to make your stay a pleasant one.