Please note that children must be supervised during this activity as the hen house is close to the pond and the geese can be a little territorial! Catering and Ready Made Home Cooked Meals We encourage you to save your scraps for our chickens (no meat) and all guests are welcome to go and feed the chickens, ducks and geese. Guests are welcome to collect eggs, (if there are any left!) straight from the hen house, all our chickens are rescued and are now completely free range. We also invite you to join us at feeding times and it is a really lovely experiance. You are welcome to bring Carrots and Apples as the Alpacas and Goats love these when youve cut them up! We do however have an ad-hoc feeding station where you can grab a scoop and feed them yourselves. Lower Damgate Farm is also home to of Dovedale Animal Sanctuary and we have rescued farm animals on site. Thank you for your consideration Dovedale Animal Sanctuary If you do have anything delivered we cannot not be held responsible them. Please make sure that you are at the farm for all deliveries and ensure there is someone to sign for packages. CCTV is in operation at the farm Thankyou We do however need all details of anyone coming on site for security as well as all guests safety, therefore for anyone who you’ve invited to drop of or deliver it is very important that you please let us know their details and times. We welcome local providers and never take commission from anyone recommended or otherwise. It is important that you remember we are LOWER Damgate Farm and not our neighbours across the road. This path returns you to St Bertram's bridge, giving some good views of the Hall en route.Here is some helpful information for planning your Weekend and Holiday at Lower Damgate Farm SAT NAV is notoriously bad around here so please look at our Directions The path takes you past 'The Battlestone', a Saxon cross unearthed during the building of the new Ilam village and which is thought to commemorate a battle with the Danes.Īt the end of Paradise Walk you reach the river again and can either follow it upstream and return to the hall across the park, or cross the footbridge and take the sometimes steep and slippery path through Hinkley Wood, which is a site of special scientific interest (SSSI) on account of its numerous Lime trees. This is 'Paradise Walk', created as a place where the hall guests could take their exercise. The path emerges from the trees and follows their edge, moving away from the river bank. On your right, in the woods, lies a grotto where the playwright William Congreave is said to have written his first play, 'The Old Batchelor' in 1689. If you follow the river further upstream, you will find in summer that it contains nothing but a few stagnant pools. Upstream of the bridge there are two weirs and just above the second are the 'Boil Holes', where the water from the Manifold and Hamps rivers resurges, having flowed underground for several miles. On your right is the site of the bandstand, where bands would play to entertain the hall guests. Don't cross the river, but turn upstream. Just further on, St Bertram's bridge is the old bridge across the Manifold, and was the main crossing until the new bridge was built downstream in 1828. This is said to have provided fresh water here since Saxon times. If you want to walk around then start from the tea-room and cross the Italian Gardens heading east towards St Bertram's well, which is just south of the church. Since then, the main remaining part of the hall has been used as a Youth Hostel and the grounds have been open to the public. Most of the hall was demolished in the 1920s before Sir Robert McDougall bought the estate and donated it to the National Trust in 1934. The first Ilam Hall was built by the Port family in the 16th century but this was demolished by Jesse Watts Russell to make way for his much grander hall of the 1820s. Shower and toilet facilities available in the stable yard area 50 yards from the site Limited number of hard standing pitches available There are many walks in the local area including the famous stepping stones in the Dovedale valley, which are only a 20 minute walk from the site.Ĭaravan/motor home or trailer tent pitch (we don’t accept tents) The site is surrounded by limestone hills and meandering rivers and woodland, providing a superb base to discover the Peak District. Ilam Park caravan site provides an ideal base to explore the Peak District Ilam Park caravan site is a beautiful green oasis nestled in the grounds of Ilam Hall, about five miles from Ashbourne in the southern end of the Peak District National Park.
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