Mickleton Mill Blog

In light of new announcements made by the Government, we are politely reminding you that the only visitors you should have on park are immediate family who either live with you (maximum of 6 people per caravan including yourselves), or are in your support bubble. No other visitors are permitted, under law.
A friendly reminder, that we are advising you to use the track and trace system on park.
We are thankful how caravaners have responded to guidelines, and have acted appropriately. We wou[..]

As Covid-19 guidelines and restrictions seem to be evolving quickly at the moment, all guidance we are releasing will no longer be posted out. Instead, it will be posted on the website as blog updates.
We recently made some changes to visitor restrictions on the park. These included:

Immediate family are now allowed to visit the park, but must be let on park by yourselves and sign in as per instructions at the barrier. We are asking that all visitors park on site as near as possible to[..]

INFORMATION REGARDING THE REOPENING ON JULY 4th 2020
We are very happy to be welcoming you all back to the Caravan Park, after a difficult start to the 2020 season. We hope you are all safe and well.
Like most parts of life, the Caravan Park will not be running as normal as we have had to put many procedures in place to legally be allowed to reopen. Most of these procedures require the cooperation and understanding of caravaners and have been imposed on us all by government guidelines. It [..]

Josie is a fantastic first time mum; she knows exactly what to do. You can see on the photo that when Milo is suckling, she pulls him in closer using her chin. When he is sleeping she will often nudge him to check he is OK. Josie has also shown Milo all of the best spots to have a roll and good scratch in the field!
Milo will stay with Josie for the first few months, while he is suckling and dependant on her nourishing milk. After this, we will start to wean him off so he becomes less dependa[..]

The summer holidays have started, and the shop is starting to get busier selling sweets and ice cream!
Many of you will have noticed we have a new arrival in the pony field, a baby donkey! Josie is doing a fabulous job of being a mum, and the latest arrival can be seen galloping around the field and taking plenty of dust baths. We've also got a brood of 6 chicks running around the entrance to the Caravan Park, who have almost doubled in size since they appeared with mum around a week ago.
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On the 8th and 9th of April we are holding a Tree Planting Weekend. Throughout winter we regularly cut down and prune trees to ensure the Park environment is maintained to a high standard. With 5 caravans to move over this last winter, we have had to fell 4 trees. We also plan to cut a few of the larger, leaning trees down from the centre of the top field to ensure all caravans get their fair share of sunshine.
After a lot of thought, we have decided that it would be lovely to start a small [..]

Calving season has arrived, albeit slightly early. It's once again time for those sleepless nights, anxious waits, heartbreaking lows, but also the incredible reward of seeing the birth of a live calf. This year, it seems that the calving season is starting slowly... which is great! It means that we can ease ourselves back into the routine of checking cows every couple of hours and adjusting our brains to look for all of those signs that suggest a cow is calving.
If you don't live on a farm,[..]

The start of the 2017 season is nearly upon us! It doesn't seem like two minutes since we closed up the park in October. I have to say that it doesn't quite feel 'Spring like' enough yet to believe that in 5 weeks time it will be all lambs and caravans; as we prepare to open for the first weekend of the season and will have just started lambing!
2017 will see a couple of changes here on the Caravan Park and farm. Firstly, we have moved the reception and Caravan Park office away from the farm[..]