Woodlands Farm

London offers a lot of attractions to its visitors such as historic and architectural monument, Zoo, museums and more. One such London attraction is the Woodlands Farm. Woodlands Farm is an 89-acre livestock farm located between Eltham, Woolwich, Plumstead and Welling. It is made up of farm buildings (including an ex-abattoir site), extensive fields, hedgerows and wetlands. In the north of the site is Clothworkers Wood.
 
Like most places in England, Woodlands Farm was originally covered in dense woodland similar to that seen in Oxleas, Lesness Abbey or Bostall Woods. This great city has lot to offer to its visitors. This woodland was cleared for farming, villages or settlements, and to provide a supply of timber for fuel and construction, e.g. for houses and ships. This clearance of the woodland began a long time ago, as far back as the Stone and Iron Ages, but it was most rapid during the last 2000 years.
                                              
However, old records and maps suggest the site of Woodlands Farm was only cleared of its original woodland from the 1790s onwards, which is late in history. In other words, Woodlands Farm has only been used for farming and cleared of its woodland for about 200 years.

One of the highlights for visitors to Woodlands Farm is seeing the Farm animals at close quarters: ducks, geese, chickens, sheep, pigs, pony, goat, not forgetting Daisy our British White cow.

There were three types of gardens – the Cottage garden, the Wildlife garden and
the Sensory garden. Each garden have some peculiarities that makes it different from the other two gardens. London open top bus tours enable you to jump on and off the buses and visit attractions in London at your leisure.

There are many things to do at the Woodlands Farm with childrens also.The Education Team at Woodlands Farm offers a wide range of exciting hands-on learning opportunities for children and adults of all ages, on topics ranging from plants and animals to cooking and orienteering. We also offer seasonal activities, including Christmas and Easter specials, and cross-curricular learning opportunities. Woodlands Farm also offers a range of courses and opportunities for adult learning, including craft, conservation and heritage skills and training courses for farm volunteers. Our Work Experience Programme is well established and caters for school students and those working towards animal care. qualifications. They also conduct family learning activities.


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Visitor Information:

The Farm is open to the general public every day except Monday and Christmas Day between 9.30am-4.30pm.

There is no entry charge.