…because who doesn’t like ice cream?
We rocked up to Thorpe Farm Bunkhouses, just outside Hathersage in the Peak District, with car loads of kids and parents for our more-than-annual walking and climbing weekend. The farm dogs yapped excitedly at us and the kids yapped back. We’d booked out the old Shippon (meaning cow shed) bunkhouse, although there are 3 more available with equally bucolic names: The Byre, Pondside and The Old Stables.). The children piled out of the cars and swarmed over the bunkhouse, thrilled to learn that they’d be sleeping on the hayloft sleeping platform among the exposed beams and rafters. With 32 bunks spread across two floors, there was plenty of beds and bathrooms for all of us and a large communal dining room and kitchen gave us acres of space in the evenings.
The next day we hiked up to Stanage Edge, spending a glorious morning climbing on the famous rocks. The afternoon took us back to the farm where the owners make their own ice cream on site. With plenty of ‘Oooh’ and ‘Aaah’ over the lambs, calves and piglets we indulged ourselves because who doesn’t like ice cream?
After supper, a rare treat. The owners were very happy for us to have a bonfire in the adjoining field. Children and adults huddled around, faces lit and sleepy after a full day in the outdoors.
Come to Thorpe Farm Bunkhouses and see the daffodils in bloom.
Come and see the Peak District wake up this spring. Thorpe Farm bunkhouses are on a working farm close the Stanage Edge in the Dark Peak. Stanage Edge is popular with climbers, famous with cyclists and provides a great ridge top walk with stunning views over Derbyshire. Glorious !
When you stay at Thorpe Farm Bunkhouses
Thorpe Farm provides accommodation in 3 bunkhouses where you and your mates can stay in the heart of the Dark Peak for just £10 per person per night. A working farm fives minutes away from Hathersage, here you are fee to enjoy the idyllic location and have yourselves a camp fire.
