The Accommodation

All our cottages are inspected each year (last visit 25/02/10) by VisitBritain Quality in Tourism; Oak, Holly, Ash, Elm,Beech, Chestnut, Willow and Rowan have been

awarded four stars.

The cottages are individual but furnished in a similar style whilst retaining some of the original features of the old farm buildings; flint walls and old beams.

Living areas have comfortable sofas, easy chairs and a selection of paperback books. There are colour televisions with Digital Freeview Channels, video players, DVD players and stereos with a compact disc player, radio and tape deck. All have board games and jigsaw puzzles. Kitchens have electric cookers, microwaves, dishwashers (except Willow and Rowan) fridge freezers (except Willow which only has a fridge with a freezer compartment) cafetieres, and a very comprehensive range of cooking and serving utensils.

Bathrooms have wash basins, toilets and full sized baths, all with showers over the baths. Ash and Beech have ensuite shower rooms to the double bedrooms.

Bedrooms are furnished with very comfortable beds (the majority of mattresses have been replaced in the last 18 months) and duvets. Heating is provided by storage heaters, and almost all rooms have additional convector heaters for chilly evenings. The water is drawn from a bore hole, which is checked by environmental health twice a year.

Also provided are cleaning materials including washing up liquid, tea towels and an oven glove.

Please ask if you need a particular item or ingredient for cooking, we might have it!

You will also find a hairdryer, ironing board and iron in the cottage.

Wired (new from January 2010) broadband internet accessible from all cottages for browsing the internet, checking emails, booking theater tickets............... also access to our library of films and music - please ask for details of charges.

Check in is any time from 3pm on arrival day, departure by 10 am on final morning.

What's Included - The following are included in the basic holiday charge:

• Bed Linen

• Electricity

• Heating during low season September - May
• Travel cots & high chairs (when available, we occasionally run out!)

Towels can be hired at £5.00 per person per set (= 1 bath sheet or bath towel plus hand towel).

We are happy to accept dogs in all Cottages except Oak and Elm - but only with prior arrangement. We ask that they do not go into bedrooms, or onto sofas unless extremely thoroughly covered (please bring very large blankets or sheets with you)... They must not be left alone in cottages unless this has been agreed in advance. We also request dog owners vacuum and air cottages regularly.

We also ask that dogs are supervised at all times and/or on a lead if appropriate, and our grounds are kept clean.

We ask that dogs do not exercise on the Main play area – we are very happy for them to exercise on the far field (site plan in cottage).

We are very happy to accept dogs on our terms, but will not accept dogs unless confirmation of these terms are given by dog owners in advance and of course we are very appreciative of your co operation.

Dogs are charged at £15 per dog per week, or £2 per dog per night. Maximum 2 dogs per cottage.

We don't accept cats in any cottages.

There is ample space for car parking and visitors are free to wander around in the farm grounds.

Advance orders for groceries can be made at the village shop, tel: 01263 587321. There is a bus service that stops in the village. The nearest train station is Sheringham, which is approximately 15 minutes away by car. Norwich International Airport is less than half an hour away, conveniently situated this side of Norwich.

Food delivery: tesco direct http://www.tesco.com/ and Waitrose https://www.waitrosedeliver.com/wdeliver/app/shop

will both deliver to Wood Farm.

Or visit http://www.dialabreak-food4thoughts.co.uk/10.html to order welcome packs.

Facilities - The following range of facilities are also provided at Wood Farm:

• Garden furniture outside each cottage in the summer.
• Laundry room with 2 washing machines and a coin operated tumble dryer.
• Public pay phone. (Mobile phone reception is patchy in North Norfolk, Vodafone is the most reliable.)

• Volleyball net and ball
• Large enclosed paddock with tree house, trampoline, wooden climbing frame, tyre tower, balance beams, swings, sand pit, zip wire and a large slide. New for 2006 a swing seat....
• 1959 David Brown Tractor to play on.
• Five a side football pitch.
• Cricket, football, table tennis and badminton can all be played in the old but functional farm barns.
• Indoor games room with pool table and dart board.
• Herb garden for guests use.
• Barbecues.

What's New - Up to the minute information about Wood Farm:

2010 improvements:

We have just wired in broadband internet access. The system is now live. We have also invested in a film and music library which can be accessed from a server in our office - and will be included as a free service when the internet package is bought.

The second wave of kitchen refurbishments has been completed - Holly, Ash and Elm are looking good!

We are also looking at Air or possibly Ground source heat pumps to provide heat for radiators to replace the storage heaters in all the cottages. This will hopefully happen in 2011.

We are looking at tidying up the website, and please enjoy the new photos which I have uploaded!

2009 improvements:

In January we refurbished the kitchens in Oak and Chestnut including improved lighting in both kitchens and lounges, and a dishwasher in Chestnut. They look great! We also replaced 2 sofas with leather ones, 15 pairs of curtains and 14 mattresses and the usual redecoration, internal and external.

2008 improvements:

Digital Set Top Boxes:

All cottages now have access to freeview channels via set top boxes.

The bathrooms in Oak, Holly and Chestnut have been refurbished and have new shower screens, showers and tiles (we have put the wet wall system in).

Ash ensuite - We are really pleased with the ensuite and have had a lot of positive feedback, see photo above.

Environmental Issues:

We have replaced as may bulbs as we can with low energy, and hope to replace them all when we can source some of the more unusual ones with reasonably priced low energy equivalents. This will also help out electricity bill which has - with everyone - risen dramatically in the last year.

Finally the council are offering a recycling service that is suitable for self catering accommodation so we are are now able to recycle paper, plastic, tins, drink cans, aerosols etc. Unfortunately there will not be a glass recycling facility, so we will have to continue to rely on guests taking their bottles to the bottle bank at the Pigs Pub which is very conveniently situated on the route out in the morning!

Visitors book:

Comments left by Florence in Beech Cottage visitors book August 2005 (by kind permission of Florence's mum);     Norfolks GREAT! Every time I come here I get really excited. Next year we are not coming here but after that I am going to forse my mum to let us go here again. I love this place. I'm never going to forget it.                                                            Thank you for this lovely place!         Florence aged 10                                                            

I will spare Florences blushes, but she did continue in the visitors book later in her 2 week stay for 2 pages, and I have to say Chris and I were so touched by how much she does love Wood Farm. And the story had a very happy ending, she did manage to force her parents to come for one week in 2006. Florence left yet more thoughts in the visitors book, and will be staying for 2 weeks in 2007 (and again in 2008 and in 2009, and is booked in for 2010).

Many guests have remarked that the website photos do not do us justice, and we offer so much more. I am planning to look into this and take some more photos.

Wolf King, arrived September 2006

a Colin Miller sculpture

Please email me for any further information required on availability,

Diana Jacob; info@wood-farm.com

Links to other relevant websites:

For excellent information on late availabilty check out:

Last Minute Cottages - Late availability, short break holidays and self catering in the UK

Local farm produce - Walsingham Farms Shop

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Chris and Diana Jacob, Wood Farm, Plumstead Road, Edgefield, Melton Constable, Norfolk, NR24 2AQ

Tel/Fax: 01263 587347