Beech Croft Farm

Welcome to the new ‘Blog’ for Beech Croft Farm Caravan Park and Camping Site.  This new feature aims to offer visitors to our website (and campsite!) useful information and features about the site and forthcoming events.

We are now full for the Easter weekend for caravans

Dates of interest: The following carnival dates for 2010 will be posted as soon as dates have been set

•  Tideswell Carnival
•  Bakewell Carnival
•  Buxton Carnival

A fair attends the above towns

Hope Show, which is a popular agricultural show with dog trials etc. is always held on August Bank Holiday and Chatsworth Country Show will be held on the 3rd – 5th September 2010.

Our spring visitors, Amy and Charlotte, with Cades lambs

Back at Beech Croft, lambing this year doesn’t start until March.

The Little Owl

We found a little owl yesterday in the snow, poor thing was close to death.  We phoned the Chestnut Centre & they suggested we took it down to them.  John put it in between him & his jacket & with the car heater on, took it down to the centre.  John says it felt like a block of ice next to him.  If the owl survives the centre will bring it back to Blackwell & release it.  Keeping our fingers crossed.

The application for the new toilet/shower block was granted but the weather is holding up the building work, which has to be completed before the new season begins. We are keeping fingers crossed that it doesn’t get put on hold until the season ends in November. I’d like all our visitors to have  brand new plush heated facilities.

Unfortunately the building of the new toilet block has to be put on hold until Autumn 2010.  The snow held off the builders making it impossible to finish in time for Easter.  We are extremely disappointed. 

The second application was turned down but we are going to fight it, this was to move some of the caravans in to the top field,  & to put some tent pitches into the adjoining meadow.  We are not increasing numbers we just want to give everyone more space

Another popular feature of the farm/site are our Horses.  We have five horses of our own…

Sky is 7 years old, big and bolshy! We bred him and he is full of confidence. He belongs to our daughter Jodie and his breed is a Welsh Cob section D.

Brodie belongs to me and is my pride and joy! She is a Scottish Highland … a hormonal moody mare, but we get on extremely well.  She has been known to kick and bite people she doesn’t know but the way to her heart is through her belly!

Riddick (the little white one) is a friendly little chap who is very sweet!

Angel is the big Bay Mare. Very quiet and gentle, she is mother to Miya – the coloured filly.

Miya was born on the farm 3 years ago and regular visitors to the site have enjoyed watching her grow! She is beautiful and is best friends with Riddick.