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The Village Church Farm, formerly known as Church Farm Museum, is an open-air museum of local and agricultural history near
The Village, Church Farm
- official site
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The Village Church Farm, formerly known as Church Farm Museum, is an open-air museum of local and agricultural history near Skegness
Skegness ( ) is a seaside town and civil parish in the East Lindsey District of Lincolnshire, England. On the Lincolnshire coast of the North Sea, the town is east of Lincoln and north-east of Boston. With a population of 19,579 as of 2011, i ...
, Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...
, England.
There are a number of traditional indigenous buildings, including a thatched "mud and stud
Wattle and daub is a composite building method used for making walls and buildings, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung a ...
" cottage, moved from the nearby village of Withern, the original 18th-century farmhouse, and a 19th-century stable block and cowshed. The museum holds exhibitions of 19th- and 20th-century farm implements and machinery, and displays about traditional breeds such as the Red Poll
The Red Poll is a dual-purpose breed of cattle developed in England in the latter half of the 19th century. The Red Poll is a cross of the Norfolk Red beef cattle and Suffolk Dun dairy cattle breeds.
Description and uses
The cattle are red, pre ...
cattle, and the Longwool Sheep, although there are no animals on site.
In 2009 the farm won the People's Choice Award at the Lincolnshire Renaissance Heritage Awards.
Following cuts by Lincolnshire County Council, and a fire of the mud and stud cottage, it has been run by a charity and has received help from volunteers.
See also
Gordon Boswell Romany Museum
The Gordon Boswell Romany Museum is the lifetime's work of Gordon Boswell (died 27 August 2016, aged 76), who amassed a collection of artefacts, photographs, and several examples of the characteristic Gypsy wagon or Vardo. The museum also oper ...
, Spalding
References
External links
The Village, Church Farm
- official site
Aboutbritain.com Museums in Lincolnshire Houses in Lincolnshire Farm museums in England Open-air museums in England Skegness {{UK-museum-stub