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Find Self-Catering Holidays in Farm Cottages

Farm Stays provide the perfect holiday location for families or anyone who enjoys being in the countryside. Many UK farms have converted their old barns, shippons, byres, dairies, stables and linhays to create superb self-catering farm holiday accommodation for large groups or extended family holidays. Many farm cottages offer a real working farm experience, including milking the cows, feeding the newborn lambs and scavenging for free-range eggs to cook at breakfast. All the farm cottages on My Favourite Holiday Cottages will be found in beautiful countryside with local walks. Scroll down this page to search for a wealth of UK holiday cottages on working farms or converted farm buildings. 

Exterior of a large holiday cottage surrounded by spacious lawns.
Sleeps
6
Bedrooms
3

Manicured gardens & open countryside surround Ardsley Cottage, a stylish rural holiday cottage with a hot tub at Longford Hall Farm in Hollington. The elegant cottage sits among the Peak District and Derbyshire Dales & features spacious grounds with lovely views, contemporary comforts and seclusion.

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A large wooden Somerset holiday lodge with a hot tub on a sheltered deck overlooking a spacious lawn.
Sleeps
6
Bedrooms
3

Swan Lodge is a wood-clad rural cottage on Castle Farm near Wedmore, and it provides an ideal place to relax and unwind after exploring the Somerset Levels. The cottage boasts a large garden with views of the countryside, plus an indulgent hot tub and a thoroughly modern interior.

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An end-terrace stone-built Gwynedd holiday cottage with a paved, secure front patio.
Sleeps
3
Bedrooms
1

Rural and delightfully remote, Cwm Yr Afon Cottage is located on a sheep farm. This beautifully renovated rural cottage in the North Wales countryside is a small, romantic retreat in Snowdonia. Dog-friendly and child-friendly. Sleeps 3.

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Large LEyburn holiday cottage built with local stone and surrounded by a low stone wall.
Sleeps
7
Bedrooms
4

Eastburn Cottage is a magnificent 17th-century farmhouse with an open fire, original beams and sleeps 7. This attractive Yorkshire Dales holiday cottage sits in the heart of the traditional village of Newbiggin, a stroll from a charming pub and 3 miles from the North Yorkshire market town of Leyburn.

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A single storey Ormskirk holiday cottage with dining facilities on the patio
Sleeps
2
Bedrooms
1

Maltkiln Cottage is an award-winning converted farm building near the idyllic Lancashire village of Bispham Green. Surrounded by rolling hills, this luxury countryside holiday cottage for couples sleeps 2, with exposed brickwork and a lovely garden. The property is within an easy drive of the Lake District and the western Yorkshire Dales.

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A row of wooden holiday lodges with a hot tub overlook a lake.
Sleeps
6
Bedrooms
3

Based near Alberbury in Shropshire, The Old Sheep Shed is a stunningly renovated countryside home with a hot tub, offering luxury family holiday accommodation. The Old Sheep Shed is a 17th-century barn conversion, a lovely rural retreat amidst boundless Shropshire hills.

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A stone-built, 2-storey holiday cottage in Helmsley overlooking a large lawn.
Sleeps
4
Bedrooms
2

Based on a working livestock farm, Wethercote Cottage is an authentic farmhouse adjoined to the owner’s home in the heart of the North York Moors near Helmsley. This remote 2-bedroom rural retreat is ideal for walking or cycling holidays. Pets welcome.

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Interior of a spacious pine-floored lounge with pine beams, rugs and large sofas.
Sleeps
4
Bedrooms
2

This rural holiday cottage in Derbyshire is a beautiful, semi-detached barn conversion on a working sheep farm in a peaceful location that sleeps up to four people.

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Single-storey brick-built barn conversion forming a holiday cottage with a long deck and lawned garden with a light sprinkling of winter snow. overlooking a
Sleeps
4
Bedrooms
2

Set in the small rural village of Milton, you’ll find The Byre, a farm cottage in Cumbria perfect for families looking to escape the rigours of their daily lives. This countryside cottage between three North West national parks offers the ideal holiday getaway on a working livestock farm.

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Find your favourite self-catering farm holiday cottages in villages and secluded rural locations throughout the UK, from converted crofts in the Highlands of Scotland to old Tithe Barns and Oast Houses in Kent. Where grain was once stored or horses stabled, you will find luxurious self-catering accommodation in rooms that retain the traces of their previous life, from oak beams to the occasional (strictly decorative) cider press. Most working farms will have footpaths and fields for exploring without driving further afield - perfect for holidays with pets. For those seeking facilities such as cottages with pools, children's play areas and seriously good games rooms created from former farm buildings are well worth considering. This is due to farmers finding they have perfect spaces for a range of facilities that many independent holiday cottages cannot accommodate.

Rural holidays in holiday cottages on farms in the depths of the countryside or remote locations such as Exmoor will reveal the canopy of stars in the night skies that city dwellers cannot experience, especially on crisp, clear nights in the winter. For wildflower lovers, there's nothing like a farm holiday for rambling down country lanes and woodland footpaths carpeted with snowdrops, primroses, bluebells, pink campion, violets and cow parsley according to the time of year. The best areas for wildflowers tend to be more suitable for animal farming, as fewer fertilizers have been used on the fields, thus protecting the flowers.

Book a farm cottage for a self-catering holiday and re-discover the beauties of the Great British Countryside in any season.