The Accommodation

All our cottages are inspected each year (last visit 24/02/08) by VisitBritain Quality in Tourism; Oak, Holly, Ash, Elm, Beech, Willow and Rowan have been awarded four stars; Chestnut three 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 Chestnut, Willow and Rowan) fridge freezers (except Willow which only has a fridge with a freezer compartment) coffee makers, 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 comfortable beds, duvets and pine suites. 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.

WiFi broadband internet accessible from all cottages for browsing the internet, checking emails, booking theater tickets...............

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 Elm - but only with prior arrangement. We ask that they do not go into bedrooms, or onto sofas unless extremely thoroughly covered! 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 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.

Dogs are charged at £10 per dog per week, or £2 per dog per night. Maximum 2 dogs per cottage.

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 578321. 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.

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

• Garden furniture outside each cottage in the summer.
• Laundry room with coin operated washing machines and 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 functional though not salubrious (!) 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:

Digital Set Top Boxes:

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

Sofas:

We have replaced the old sofas in Oak and Holly (November 2006), Ash (January 2007) and Rowan (June 2007).

Electricity:

April 2006: The coin meters in all cottages (except Rowan and Willow which were inclusive) have been removed .

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!

Refurbishment:

2006: 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).

2006: Ash ensuite - We are really pleased with the ensuite and have had a lot of positive feedback, see photo above.

Other:

The Volleyball net is set up in the far field, and all the usual redecoration has taken place. Elm and Holly now have new TV's with integral DVD Players. The Meile washing machine has finally given up the ghost, so we have a new Bosch which is environmentally very efficient using very little water.

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.

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:

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