Kentish Town City Farm

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Kentish Town City Farm
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Kentish Town Farm

Kentish Town City Farm is built in and around Gospel Oak Overground station. Or rather, the station has been built around the farm, which has been there since the early ’70s. Visitors will meet chickens, ducks, pigs, a cow and some absurdly cute and mischievous goat kids. Resident sow Margery – a Gloucestershire Old Spot, since you asked – has recently birthed some piglets. Rumours that one of them plans to embark upon a career as a sheep pig remain unconfirmed.

Along with all the vegetables, there’s a lovely selection of fruit trees – apples, pears, cherry and quince – plus a scary sounding nettle patch, which is there for the butterflies and not as a horrible trap.

There’s an excellent horse-riding programme which provides children, adults and Camden residents with learning difficulties access to the farm’s trio of neigh-sayers, Murphy, Jester and Champ. Children are at the heart of the farm, with a range of weekend workshops, after-school pottery and a dedicated team of local young volunteers.

Keep an eye out for the Open Farm Day in June and the Apple Day Community Festival in October. Miriam Bouteba

Find more urban farms in the capital with our guide to London city farms

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Venue name: Kentish Town City Farm
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Address: 1
Cressfield Close
Kentish Town
London
NW5 4BN
Transport: Tube: Kentish Town
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Naomi
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This is perhaps the best of the city farms in London,  though as a concept in general I am still struggling to get my head around it! I arrived very early one Saturday morning to be greeted by an enthusiastic team of children who were obviously with some kind of educational class - both them and the adults who work there seemed very passionate about the animals, with several children quickly trying to tell me everything they knew about the goats I was looking at!  The general atmosphere is very charming and if it wasn't for the train line it would honestly feel a million miles from London.

Ren J

That was a very sad afternoons visit. The animals are so unhappy. They are kept in small enclosures, sometimes alone, adjacent to a railway track in a Camden housing estate. I don't doubt the volunteers are honest, lovely people but this is no place to keep animals.

margherita

it's the most amazing place ever. We love it and the people working there are the most compassionate and kind you'll meet in a long while. Thanks!!

Melissa

Im planning on visiting England next year and I was looking for family fun activites, thank you so much for having this website for people like me that are traveling to London.

megi

me and my family love animals we grew up around animals.we are planning to come and visit you today.we came before and we loved it so we want to come again.i was so pleased.

My_son_the_farmer

This is a five star. It's got it all: urban, rural, farmyard, fun, educational, socially inclusive, relaxing and the kids just LOVE it. Adam's been going there since he was young and now volunteers and he begs to go there claiming it'seven better than the Wii. If you knew how hard he begs to go on the Wii, you'd know that's really saying something. Personally mucking out animals doesn't do it for me, but there is obviously some magic I am missing out of.