No further meets
in 2010

West Stour

Pigs and geese
Coking Farm is a quiet site, lying in the peaceful heart of the Blackmore Vale about 6 miles west of Shaftesbury.
The site is level with long views and, weather permitting, lovely sunrises and sunsets. Originally a dairy farm, they now run sheep in several of their fields, and you will often see their Rheas, KuneKune pigs, and various fowls wandering about the place.
There is a small barn on site which we can use for workshops and informal sessions

Directions:

Coking Farm
West Stour SP8 5SF
OS Ref: 183/763214

From Shaftesbury take the A30 to West Stour
Go through the village, and after 1 mile turn left into farm
Follow signs through the farm to the site

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In the area:

Pigs and geese

There is a butchery and farm shop on site selling local meat and home produced sausages and burgers, fresh eggs, and a variety of whatever is in season.

Coking Farm Coarse Fishery, adjacent to the site, has 5 well managed lakes which total 20 acres of water offering a variety of fishing from specimen carp and catfish to pleasure and match angling

Shaftesbury A small Market Town with a history that goes back to medieval times and hill-top forts
Gartell Light Railway Steam hauled narrow gauge railway running on the old Somerset & Dorset trackbed
Stourhead National Trust
World-famous 18th-century landscape garden, Palladian mansion, parkland, woods and chalk downs

Our sites

Facilities

At Coking Farm we have use of their shower and toilet facilities, although they are a short walk from where we camp!

Shops

A garage and shop selling essentials and newspapers is about a mile away.

Shaftesbury (7 miles away) has a large Tesco and a range of other shops.

Eating out

The Ship Inn is just a mile away and has an excellent restaurant as well as a friendly bar.

India Cottage serves excellent Indian food is just two miles distant, and also offers a very good take-away service.

Within 4 miles there are several more very good eating places, including a very good fish and chip shop and Chinese take-away in Stalbridge, the Kings Arms pub and restaurant, the Stapleton Arms and the Blackmore Vale Arms.

Further afield, the The White Horse at Stourpaine (just north of Blandford Forum, postcode DT11 8TA) serves good food, with very reasonable prices for Senior Citizens)

Transport

There is no public transport serving West Stour.

Updated 14-Oct-2010 12:04