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Opening Times
Daily (except Dec 24 - Jan 2):
10am - 4pm
Admission Prices
Free |
Official Website
(Opens in separate window)
Facilities
Eating
Farm Shop sells refreshments in addition to small gifts and food for the animals.
Picnic area
For Kids
Outdoor play area
Special Needs
Accessible by disabled visitors
Disabled toilets
Attractions
Animal Collections
Mammals, Birds
Note: The animal pictures on this page are merely representative of this type of attraction; they do not mean that the animals can be found at this specific attraction.
Other Attractions
Sensory garden
Description
The Coventry City Farm has been going for over 24 years and is located in the Hillfields area of the City, in a highly urban setting about half a mile from the centre. It houses a variety of animals, such as sheep, ponies, chickens and guinea pigs. Visitors are welcome to walk around the farm, to see, touch and learn about the animals from close quarters. Entrance is free and the Farm relies on donations, membership and volunteers to keep it running.
Note: The official farm website was not working when this page was compiled, but the link above has still been provided in case it becomes active again in the future.
How To Get There:
By Car
From Coventry Ringway (inner ring road):
Find your way to junction 2 of the Ringway, by the bus station, where Ringway Whitefriars meets Ringway Swanswell. This junction is most easily negotiated from the Ringway in the anti-clockwise direction: you need to leave the Ringway in the right-hand lane of the slip road, then merge/fork right into White Street and under the Ringway. If approaching from the clockwise direction, you need to take the left-hand lane of the slip road, then merge left onto White Street as you pass under the Ringway. Continue around the `roundabout' and fork right onto White Street and under the Ringway again. Move into he left-hand lane as you turn under the Ringway.
From either Ringway direction, take the middle lane as you cross under the Ringway on White Street, to avoid the left-turn into Bird St. and the right-turn back into the Ringway junction. Continue forwards on White Street, past the lake, and take the left-hand lane straight through the next cross-roads into Primrose Hill Street. Continue on this road into Victoria Street and then King William Street. Continue forwards on King William Street `straight' (slightly right) through the next mini-roundabout, then take the next left into Clarence Street. The entrance to the Farm will then be a short distance on your left.
From A444 / A4600 / A428 eastern approaches to the City Centre:
Follow the signs to the City Centre. Once you have reached Sky Blue Way, after the merger of the A428 and A4600, either continue onto the Ringway anti-clockwise and proceed as described above; or take the next turn right into Oxford Street. Then continue along this road as it becomes Paynes Lane, Berry Street, and King William Street. Just after a zebra crossing, with a modern church on the left and a school on the right, turn right into Clarence Street. The entrance to the Farm will then be a short distance on your left.
Those approaching along the A4600 can avoid the Sky Blue Way by turning right at the traffic lights just after crossing under the A444 into Swan Lane. Then take the next turn left into Britannia Street, and turn right at the end into Paynes Lane.
By Public Transport
The Farm can be reached from the no. 13 bus route.
Data on this page last updated: Aug 22 2007
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