Address: Stansfeld Road, Beckton, London E6 5LT
Tags animals ducks kids pigs shire
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moonrising (26-04-2008)
Compared to the postage stamp farms closer in to the city, this place is positively palatial, and seems to take up most of King George V Park. However it’s probably just as densely populated with animals, including ponies, pigs, sheep and goats. The have hen coops where you are allowed to feed bread to the chickens, and a pond which has several species of duck and some rare geese.
It’s all very pretty and clean, though the cats ignore visitors and I couldn’t blame them. Several visiting kids were going on about ‘scaring the cats away’, right in front of their smiling parents. What’s that about? You’ve got to wonder if some people deserve places like this…
Being larger than the average city farm they can go a little further with the animals… They have a shire horse, a very unfriendly turkey who was not happy with anyone coming near his domain, ferrets (not visible when I visited) peacocks and a kookaburra. You don’t see one of them on a farm every day! Definitely recommended if you are in the area.
Tags city, animals, free, kids, farm, ducks, birds, sheep, horses, ponies, pigs, geese, shire
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