VISITING BATH? STAY AT CORSTON FIELDS FARM!

Corston Fields Farm is able to combine all the benefits of a town and country break. It‘s in rolling countryside just 5 miles (8 kms) from the centre of Bath and only 8 miles (13 kms) from Bristol. A beautiful farmhouse placed quietly between the two cities.

If you're worried about city driving whilst staying here, you can take the nearby Park & Ride and avoid the stress of city driving and parking. Apart from taxis, there is no public transport to the farm from Bath or Bristol, so the use of a car is nearly essential.

Once you're here however, you can enjoy the elegance of Bath, the energy of Bristol, the glories of Cheddar; then retreat back to Corston Fields Farm and take bed and breakfast in the farmhouse or the Annex. Theatre, cinema, shops, top quality rugby, astonishing heritage, magnificent architecture, the Roman Baths, the Royal Crescent - at Corston Fields you're in the countryside and they're all nearby! Corston Fields is also a working arable farm.

We grow wheat and barley, then linseed is grown for its oil in the manufacture of paint and putty. There's always something interesting to see on the farm.

Corston Fields farmhouse taken from the wildflower meadow

AWARD WINNING BED & BREAKFAST

The Farmhouse in Spring

A view from one of the bedrooms

YOUR HOSTS

Gerald & Ros, (that's us on the left!) run the B&B and the working farm and apart from Christmas and the New Year, we receive guests all year round. A sincere, country welcome awaits you at Corston Fields Farm!

EATING OUT

There are several pubs and restuarants near the farm where good food is served. We can advise you where to eat locally when you arrive, or alternatively, have a look at Bath's Food & Drink a site where Bath's best cafes, restuarants and bistros are listed.

A hot tip is an excellent restuarant in Bath called Gascoyne Place If you get the day right, you get live jazz too!

THE FARM TRAIL

For the exclusive use of our guests, we've created a 1.25 mile (2 km) loop walk that starts and finishes at the farmhouse. On well-cut grass, the trail meanders past our pond and around our fields. At it's highest point there are lovely views across the farm to the Bury, a medieval hill fortress and you're sure to see all sorts of wildlife like duck, partridge, hare, badger, deer and pheasant. If you're a guest and would like to do the walk, all you'll need is walking shoes if it's dry under foot but remember to bring rubber boots with you if it's likely to be wet.

TAKING CARE OF OUR SURROUNDINGS

Not only do we welcome international guests at Corston Fields, it´s a working farm too. This doesn’t mean Corston Fields is farmed at the expense of wildlife; on the contrary, we work hard to ensure that modern farming and wildlife conservation flourish side by side.

We of course try to farm profitably but we're also aware that Corston Fields is the home of many fragile plants, insects and animals that need encouragement and protection too. So we take great care to nourish a gentle, balanced order. With the relative dimensions of a farm, that takes time and patience - and it's not that easy!

HRH the Prince of Wales presenting Gerald & Emily his daughter with the Gold Award

ROYAL CONSERVATION AWARD

In October 2002, His Royal Highness Prince Charles presented Gerald and Ros with the highly prestigious Duke of Cornwall's Farm Habitat Scheme Gold Award. The Gold Award was granted for, ‘improving natural habitat by restoring hedgerows and providing field margins and wildlife corridors’ on Corston Fields Farm. Many rare plants and wild birds such as skylarks, linnet, grey partridge and sparrows are now flourishing on the farm where once they were nearly extinct.

NO FOSSIL FUELS USED!

Flax from the farm’s linseed crops is used as fuel to provide hot water and central heating in the Annex and farmhouse. Corston Fields Farm grows its own heating fuel and it's renewed every year! A huge boiler consumes one large bale of flax per day to provide all the heat that's needed and provide guests with lashings of hot water.
The boiler's stoked once a day with a tractor and then left to heat the water while life of the farm continues. If you stay at Corston Fields and would like to see the boiler, Gerald will jump at the chance to show it off, if however you are happy just to enjoy the warmth and comfort of it all – you'll know no difference from a 'normal' system.