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Our 2022 Visitors comments on our historic tours ..  all you need to do is now is choose a date in 2023 to come and see us too. Amazing place! We were fascinated. Enlightening tour. Wonderful to see engineering like this preserved. Really wonderful. Most informative. Fabulous and inspiring! Amazing insight into such an intriguing place. Incredible window to the past. Tremend ...

Cragside is a National Trust property that has beautiful gardens and walks, as well as a magnificent house to visit.  Cragend Farm is the Model Farm of Lord Armstrong of Cragside and is situated next door. Privately owned Cragend Farm can be visited for tours by appointment. We also have accommodation offering you the opportunity to stay in an original Armstrong  farmworkers c ...

Lambing has started and although we have had some rain the weather is warm, and on the whole they are doing well. We have had plenty of twins and a few triplets. ...

Things to do this Summer:   Call the Midwife! Tours at Cragend Farm have started with unexpected new  information coming to light on the very first day, when Eileen Telfer and her daughter Justine, told the amazing story of her great-grandfather.   Joseph Gall, lived at ‘Craghead’ a small dwelling on the south side of the River Coquet opposite Cragend Farm. He worked for L ...

Cragend Farm Historic Tours are available to book now online or direct through us. Click on the link below to go directly to the Tour of Cragend Farm @historichuses page where there is an easy link to the booking system. They kick off in May 2022 we look forward to seeing you here. https://www.historichouses.org/house/cragend-farm/tours We have information about the far ...

Historic Tours 2022 Booking available for Historic Tours from May 2002 is now open via Historic Houses  website or direct via our contact page: https://www.historichouses.org/tours/upcoming-tours/?region=&q=cragend The dates are most Tuesdays and Wednesdays from May 7th 2022, subject to availability. Booking by appointment only. ...

We are members of The Historic Houses Organisation, where membership gives you the opportunity to visit private houses and castles where historic and listed buildings are located. AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY TO SAVE! Historic Houses are offering our guests a £5 discount on a new annual membership, whether as a Christmas or Birthday gift or to use yourself, when you quote our co ...

Historic Tours start this month Tours are to re-open after Pandemic shuts down one of  Lord Armstrong of Cragside's enduring heritage sites for the ‘renewables generation’ Despite having to close due to the Pandemic last year, Cragend Farm is pleased to be re-opening in May with Historic Tours of its Farm and buildings including the unique Hydraulic Listed Silo. As well as b ...

Well-loved Local Rothbury resident plants a dedication tree in April 2021.   Anthea Logan-Wood planted this Red oak tree on Sunday in the sunshine. She is a well known and loved Rothbury resident. As a child, she was evacuated to Cragend Farm during the Second World War, and her family stay is part of the history at Cragend Farm.  Her ties to Rothbury and Cragend Farm are stro ...

Booking in Advance It is important to plan ahead if you are wishing to travel to Northumberland this year, as all the Historic Houses and National Trust and English Heritage sites are open using a booking system due to the Pandemic. With this in mind, please make sure you book in advance if you wish to visit Cragside, Bamburgh Castle, Alnwick Castle and gardens, Wallington, ...

We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to your fantastic farm on the Historic Houses tour on Tuesday. We both agree that it was the most interesting HHA visit we have ever done - and we have done many over the years! We had no idea of the extent of the Armstrong connection or what you have there, having visited Cragside on so many occasions in the past 50 years or so. And indeed looked down on the farm from the walks at Cragend quite recently. We particularly enjoyed ascending and descending the ladders to look at the hydraulic equipment and get an idea of how it all functioned, the beautiful and unusual buildings which had housed the cattle, and were intrigued by the contents of your "underground " loo! Peacocks and chicks, hens and a beautiful pet lamb added to the feel of the farm.

Shaun & Lou Renwick are keen to harness the farm's natural resources, using wood to heat their water, to cook with on a wood burning range, and to heat the houses on the Farm. Even if your house is not equipped to totally run on wood there are things you can do to make sure you are using the best quality wood for your fires.

Why use Seasoned Wood?

Seasoned wood is a definition for 'wood drying'. About 5% of the energy of the log is wasted through evaporation and heating the water vapour of damp logs.

Moisture effects the burning process with unburnt hydrocarbons going up the chimney, which can in time create 'sooting' in the chimney, with the possibility of a chimney fire, all of which requires specialist sweeping.

Drying the wood before burning reduces moisture content in the wood before it is used for burning,

Air drying is the most traditional method, and it takes time. usually over and above 2 years! The fire will use less energy to burn the log if the water content is below 20%. Therefore is can give OUT more energy in the form of heat!

Cragend Farm endeavours to provide their customers with the best seasoned wood possible.

if you would like further information on the process of burning wood please contact us and we will be happy to help.

Why seasoned wood?

Thank you so much Lou and Shaun for a great holiday break on your farm at Cragend last week. East Cottage was a super place to stay. Very comfortable accommodation with everything we needed for self-catering and situated next to the beautiful Cragside National Trust gardens. It was super for our dog with fields to walk across as well as a secure fenced place for her to run off lead! Such interesting history too about the farm and how you have restored the buildings, the Victorian silo and so much else of the past farming life at Cragend. We look forward to returning! J&M Nottingham.

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