Sheepdrove will be open for viewings on Sunday 3rd July 11am-3pm; summer is the perfect time to visit with the gardens brilliant with colour and the meadows full of wildflowers buzzing with life. Do get in touch to book, or if you can’t attend, arrange a private viewing - we’d love to show you round 💖
Sheepdrove is a bespoke wedding and events venue built using sustainable natural materials 🌏♻️🌈 and located on the glorious Lambourn Downs in a designated area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Our exclusive use and blank canvas contemporary ceremony barn is a versatile and unique space with a modern rustic vibe. The tree lined courtyard and lush aromatic herb garden are simply perfect for an al fresco drinks reception. The high vaulted ceilings and epic spaces of the Reception Hall, Oak Room and Dining Hall allow celebrations to flow seamlessly straight through, all day and all evening long, with no need for your guests to be moved.
Come and see us!
☎️ 01488 674730
📧 info@sheepdrove
The Reception Hall, Sheepdrove’s light-filled, airy and epic space is an ideal setting to welcome your guests.
Situated centrally at the heart of wedding venue between the largest ceremony room and the dining hall, it’s the perfect place to greet and gather, to meet and mingle.
There are lovely places to linger, like the cosy Library with velvet sofas and gothic brass candelabra and the upper gallery with its sheepskin sofas and vantage point over the scene below.
Quirky and original features include our handmade moon gate wedding arch, high back outsize Knole-style sofas, rammed chalk wall, stoneground flour mill and, ever popular with children, the walk-on glass floor panel that shows the underground geology of chalk and flint on this downland farm.
If you’re looking for a wedding venue that offers a contemporary rustic vibe, hidden away in the beautiful Berkshire countryside but within easy reach of London, please get in touch to view Sheepdrove and discover our beautiful, bespoke and exclusive-use green building.
☎️ 01488 674730
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Sheepdrove will be open for viewings on Saturday 21st May 11am-3pm; spring is a perfect time to visit as our gardens and grounds bloom and burst back into life. Call or email or contact us via instagram (@sheepdroveweddings) to register.
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Welcome to the wild heart of Sheepdrove Organic Farm.
We have Verity White and her collaborators @wild.carbon to thank for this beautiful introduction to our rewilding project at Sheepdrove.
Our journey into nature conservation and organic regenerative agriculture began in 1995 when we took over 2,000 acres of industrially farmed land on the Lambourn Downs. Organic and regenerative farming practices have fundamentally enhanced and enriched the natural world of Sheepdrove's rolling chalk downland but we felt it was time to go further and rewilding is the next step on our journey into nature recovery.
We have returned a cluster of farmland, woodland and scrub at the heart of the farm completely and entirely to nature to create another ecologically diverse wildlife habitat in our mosaic of valuable ecosystems which includes species-rich grassland, ancient oak woodland, chalk downland, dew ponds, young native woodland, scrub and hedgerows, reedbed system with lake and wildlife ponds, plus certified organic, mixed rotational farmland with conservation practices such as sowing wild bird seed mixtures, creating beetle banks and wildflower margins, and regenerative agriculture methods including legume-rich herbal pasture for grazing livestock and growing wheat and beans undersown with clover.
We hope rewilding will promote biodiversity, restore natural processes and draw down carbon and have put in place a robust monitoring programme to measure outcomes, with Nick Adams and associates from TN Wildlife conducting the ornithology, butterfly and predatory invertebrates surveys, Cath Shellswell, the farmland advisor at Plantlife, undertaking the botany surveys, and Verity White and Wild Carbon measuring the carbon offsetting.
Our rewilding project relies on natural regeneration; we have no plans for mass tree planting. Since 1995 Sheepdrove has planted thousands of trees and miles of hedgerows and we’ve had quite enough of plastic tree guards. This time it is nature who
