Welcome to Roves Farm.
Roves Farm has been devastated by a major fire. Everyone and all animals are safe, but we are closed at the moment.
Following the fire on May 9th that has completely gutted our tearoom, toilets, reception barn and the seating/pedal tractor room, we regret that we shall be unable to re-open for a few weeks!
Although these are early days, we very much hope to be able to open with 'modest' facilities within a month. All of our play areas (indoor and outside), the bale stack and animal pens remain unaffected so will be available, along with tractor rides, crafts and animal racing as soon as we can organize reception, catering and toiletry facilities.
For those of you interested in knowing how the fire started, it began when the SSE fuses on the in-coming mains overheated and set fire to the wood panel that they were mounted on. When we saw smoke coming from this area, we extinguished the initial smouldering ourselves, using our own carbon dioxide extinguishes and called SSE and the Fire Brigade. The Fire Brigade were here within minutes, but were unable to operate their water based systems until the electrical power could be turned off. Astonishingly, SSE took nearly 2 hours to arrive (having eventually sent a team from Melksham!) by which time the buildings had been destroyed.
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Roves Farm is a 166 hectare working, mixed, open farm situated 3 miles North East of Swindon.
A great family day out, come rain or shine!
There is lots of things going on for everyone, from the very young to the older generation.
Animal Feeding and Handling, lots of Indoor and Outdoor playareas including Bouncy Castle, Bale Stack and Under 5's area.
ENYOY A DIFFERENT THEME DURING EVERY SCHOOL HOLIDAY!