Welcome to Bucklebury Farm Park: come and share the magic!

LATEST NEWS: Farm Park now open daily until December 23rd 10am-5pm

By popular request we have extended our season and for the first time are delighted to be open daily from 10am-5pm until December 23rd. We are also offering half price entry after 3pm on weekdays during term time, so that's an extra incentive if you want to come and let off steam after school!

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Bucklebury Farm Park offers a magical experience and a great day out whatever the weather, that will appeal to the whole family, school groups, senior citizens' clubs, or just a couple of friends.

You can find us in the Berkshire countryside close to the village of Bucklebury between Reading and Newbury.

Set in a stunning 74-acre site we have a host of attractions including:

As well as a great day out, we offer an unusual venue for Birth d ay Parties, and educational School Visits. At Bucklebury Farm Park, children can get very close to our animals learn about them and even help look after them with our Bucklebury Young Farmer VIP passes.

WE LOVE CHRISTMAS AT BUCKLEBURY FARM PARK!!

Daily: We will be open daily during December (until 23rd) with special visits to see Santa (bring your Christmas letters) and reindeer displays each day. Entry price as usual. Santa's Grotto £3.50.

Christmas in the Barn weekends (10th-11th December and 17th-18th December): We will be repeating our popular Christmas in the Barn events with craft and gift stalls, mulled wine & mince pies, hot dogs and warming soup. Entry price as usual. Santa's Grotto £3.50.

Carols in the Barn: On the evening of the 17th from 6pm-8pm, join us for Carols in the Barn. This wonderful evening is a new event and we are sure it will be a magical start to the final week before Christmas. Entry is free to this event.

A bird's eye view of our Royal Wedding Day Event

We were delighted to host the Royal Wedding Day "Tea In The Park" celebration for Bucklebury Village on 29th April. It was a party to remember and a great way to mark this historic occasion. The whole village gathered to toast the new Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and send them good wishes for a long and happy marriage.

Latest job vacancies at Bucklebury Farm Park 2011

We are always looking for bright, highly motivated team players who will be great ambassadors for the farm to join our team. You will need to be smartly presented and with the enthusiasm to convey a sense of fun and enjoyment to our customers. We currently have a vacancy for a catering supervisor. To apply please email your CV to Oli Brooke at info@buckleburyfarmpark.co.uk

Season Tickets Available Now!

Why not take the chance to return to the park throughout the year to follow the progress of your favourite baby animals and enjoy sharing the magic of the changing seasons at the farm? Offering great value, our season ticket passes will give allow you full access to the park for an entire year. To find out more click here.

Delicious Cook ready meals and free range pork for your freezer

Bucklebury Farm Park is now a stockist for the fabulous Cook range of home prepared meals so come and fill your freezer! From hand-made savoury pies to hearty casseroles and family classics to delicious deserts and indulgent treats, we have the solution for those days when you just don't have the time or energy to cook. We also sell our own home produced Mangaliza pork, wild boar and venison as well as free range eggs and local honey.

Get into the festive spirit at Bucklebury - 4-12th December 2010

Come and enjoy Christmas in the barn! By special request Santa Claus will be paying us an early visit dropping into our magical grotto. We'll have tractor-sleigh rides, bags of carrots for your favourite donkeys, and a fabulous farm trail Christmas quiz! Snap up some great gifts from our craft and home made cake stalls, get warm around the fire with some delicious hot food, mulled wine and mince pies. The farm's home-reared venison, wild boar and pork will also be on sale. Open daily 10am-4pm, 4th-12th December. Tickets priced children/concessions £3.50, adults £4.00, disabled/helpers £3.00.

Farm Park closed for 2010 season

The Farm Park has now closed for the 2010 season. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did and we are already working hard on some exciting plans for 2011. We will reopen on 18th February 2011 but do come and see us before that at our Christmas event (4-12 December)!

Don't miss our bank holiday Sunday hogroast

By popular demand we are hosting another yummy hogroast on Sunday August 29th. We hope to begin carving from 12.45pm so why not come early and make a day of it!

Bucklebury Farm Park creates a "magical" roundabout

Sharp eyed visitors may have spotted our new venture into roundabout sponsorship - we are supporting the West Berkshire scheme and will be paying for the upkeep of the roundabout at the bottom of Hart's Hill between Thatcham and Bucklebury for the next three years. Our new signs went up on Friday 27th August and we are hoping that local school children will help us create the planting pglet scheme!

New litter of curly pigs arrives

Our second litter of Hungarian Mangalitsa "curly piglets" was born to mum and dad Ivan and Olga on 18th August 2010. They are very cute and furry and enjoying the sunshine - come and see them play!

Teddy Bear Hunt raises £132.71 for Helen & Douglas House Hospice

Our fun Teddy bear hunt on 12 August was a great success raising £132.71 in aid of the charity Helen & Douglas House which provides hospice care for children and young adults. Youngsters (and oldsters too) brought their favourite teddies and headed off on a bear hunt through our nature walk answering clues to find some famous bears. None other than a bear looking suspiciously like Paddington was waiting for them at the end. We had a prize draw conducted by Bucklebury Farm Park owner Rupert Hartley Russell for all our successful bear hunters won by Megan Birch aged 6 from Marsh Benham, Maisie Cornwall (6) from Welford and Charlie Spring (3) from Reading. We were delighted that our local MP Richard Benyon was able to join us on the day and even tried out our new jumping pillow - what a great sport!

New Jumping Pillow opens this weekend (17-18 July 2010)

Jumping Pillows were first launched in Denmark 10 years ago and now they are coming to Berkshire! Bucklebury Farm Park is taking delivery of the first inflatable Jumping Pillow to be installed in the county just in time for the summer holidays. Together with a new go-kart track, Woody’s Leap woodland obstacle course and gemstone panning, there is plenty to entertain the whole family in our adventure play areas.

New faces in the farmyard

Our farm trail has some new faces – alongside our famous “curly pigs”, come and meet June our new baby Dexter calf or feed the ducklings on the pond. You can join in the fun of caring for our animals with one of our popular Be A Farmer sessions. Bring a picnic, enjoy a BBQ or delicious snacks from our “Little Green Food Wagon” and don’t forget included in the price of a ticket, you can enjoy a magical tractor safari to see the new baby deer calves and fawns – making for a great value day out for family and friends of all ages this summer.

New Deer Safari Programme Launched

Visitors have the unique opportunity to observe deer at close quarters with our new deer safari programme. The dawn and dusk safaris run throughout June, July and October in addition to the farm’s existing daily tour programme from 10am to 6pm.

Click here for more information about our Deer Safari programme.

See the curly pigs at Bucklebury Farm Park

Bucklebury Farm Park farmer Rupert was given a surprise Christmas present of two gorgeous woolly-coated Hungarian Mangalitsa pigs (Ivan and Olga) by partner Elizabeth. There was an even bigger surprise when Olga produced a cheeky litter of stripey piglets just two days before we re-opened for the new season. Known as "curly" pigs, Mangalitzas are relatively new to the UK and we think this is the first litter born in Berkshire!!

Den Building Area Open For Action!

If you enjoyed our bushcraft adventure experience why not come on down and have a go at building your own shelters in our new den building area? The den building area has been created by Bucklebury's own woodcraft team who will be on hand to show you how it is done.