Finkley Down Farm Park

Came here in July and found the farm to be a good combination of farm and play areas. It’s also got a lot of character and the staff are helpful and happy. Importantly the farm is also clean and well kept.

A lovely little petting farm for a day out with the family. Entrance fee is very reasonable. Farm isn’t huge by anyone’s standards but just about big enough for an afternoons walking about without it being too much for the little/​older ones. Lots to see and many activities laid on for the children. Arm them with a bucket of food from the entrance first though or you will find yourself running back for some! On site café sells everything from fish & chips to ice cream or just a cuppa. Toilets well sign posted and clean. Lots of basins and hand gel dotted around for after you have touched the animals. Nice staff who are kid friendly. Congratulations to the farm for keeping the gift shop prices low, lots of souvenirs on sale for under £2.

This is a wonderful family run park, great place for a family day out or even to pop in to play for a couple of hours.
The park includes a large slide and various smaller slides along with tyre swings, there is also a toddler area which has a gate to prevent them from running off! It includes a playhouse, 2 small trampolines and just about every little tykes climbing frame and slide structure. There is also a sandpit which is great fun.
Other areas include several large netted trampolines for older children and 2 go karting areas.
There is a wide variety of animals from cows and horses to rodents and birds.
There are set times for particular activities such as rabbit handling, rodent handling, feeding the lambs and pony grooming. These usually happen twice a day from what I remember so it is worth checking the timings before hand so that the little ones don’t miss out.
If you are local then a season ticket is definitely worth it as it makes it worthwhile for a couple of hours play after school, we have had a season ticket for the past 2 years and there is usually a discount if you renew early.
There is a café on the site however I would definitely recommend taking a picnic and lots of drinks as although the café serves good food it can be expensive and during busy days it takes quite some time to get served.
There are plenty of picnic tables available.
There are plenty of wash stations available for after feeding petting animals.
The facilities available are pretty standard toliets, baby change, they also provide a microwave in the baby change area to allow for heating baby food and bottles.
The gift shop has lots of great pocket money toys and lots of cuddly animals etc. They also sell animal feed so the kids can enjoy feeding all of the animals, just keep an eye out for the signs of which animals you are not allowed to feed!
My 2 children absolutely love visiting Finkley and there is enough to keep them entertained for the whole day.

I cannot rave enough about Finkley Down Farm. I don’t even have kids I can use as an excuse — I simply come here to relax and spend some time with the animals. The atmosphere is relaxed and peaceful and the abundance of cute greedy animals desperate for you to feed them is nothing short of delightful. Their animals range from goats and sheep to chickens to cows right over to the more unusual llamas and highland cows. Even if you’re not into getting close to the animals or feeding them the buckets of food available at the ticket office, just watching them mooch around is still fun and relaxing.
The llama took somewhat of a disliking to me (was it something I said?) and stormed at me, looking like it could easily clear the fence and gain its freedom. I wasn’t going to hang around to find out. One look at my pathetic retreating hide running off into the distance was enough to reduce its anger to mere disdain, and instead he decided to spit all over me. In some sort of random heroic act, the pig sharing its pen flung itself at the llama as if to take the blow for me, and rather than reflect on the llama soaking I’d been given, I instead watched this pig take one for the team. Right in the eye, no less. From hereonin, I shall name this pig SuperPig.
If you do have kids you can pretend are the reason for visiting, there’s plenty to keep them occupied. Other than the animals you can feed, there are talks and handling sessions with some of the smaller or baby pets throughout the day. There’s also a nice adventure playground and a couple of trampolines to wear them out on too. There’s a small gift shop and a place to buy some food, as well as a picnic area if you’re sensible enough to bring your own food.
I love this place and can’t wait to go back when it reopens for the season next year.

Finkley Down Farm is a fantastic place for the whole family and is great for anyone looking for a bit of fun and a lover of animals. Me and my girlfriend had a fantastic few hours here feeding the goats and stroking the yaks. Entrance is very cheap, and I strongly recommend getting a bucket of feed to share with all the animals.
If you’re all about cute animals like my girlfriend, have a passion for farms and fancy a really lovely day out, then I strongly recommend heading here. I had a really great time.

I am a huge fan of this place! Its a lovely size, not too large that you are shattered at the end of it and you have easy access to all the animals and can feed and pet them easily. There is a lovely café serving great cakes and a great outdoor play area with sandpit, trampolines and slides for all ages. They do have a small inside play area with ride on toys which they claim make it an all weather activity but I would save this for sunny days!