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Welcome to the Coombes Farm Experience

Farm tours for everyone


See the new born Lambs and Calves
at Coombes
We Now have lots of lambs and calves

Lambing Time
Has finished but there will be tours to see the lambs and calves in the fields
This Sunday 4th at 2.30.

Phone to book 01273 452028

Come Fishing at Passies Pond .
This Year, day ticket

or join on a special match

Farm Tours Please phone to Book for families and groups

We are taking School bookings now
for this year 2008 and 2009

We belong to farms for schools
Help with cost of transport

See News & Events for
other events at Coombes

including
2 Barn Dances Soon
Hire Coombes barn for your own event!

Tractor and trailer trips around the farm
For your family

Thank you for voting for us in Farmer of the year
We were in the Finals

Are you interested in the countryside and
over 26 years old, then join country link
Between 10 and 26 years old, join Young farmers

Coombes is a small village in West Sussex, set against the backdrop of the South Downs and only a stones throw away from the English Channel.

Coombes Church Farm is a fully working family run business that runs day tours and also coarse fishing in the well stocked lakes.

Church Farm
Coombes
Lancing
West Sussex
BN15 0RS
United Kingdom

To contact Passies Ponds directly: 01273 465257
To contact Coombes Farm Tours directly: 01273 452028
As we are very busy as we are a working farm,
please keep trying to contact us as we may be with the sheep !


 

 

 

 


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A birds eye view of Coombes Farm and Passies Pond ...
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Coombes
Coombes
Coombes
Coombes
Coombes, Passies Pond
Coombes, Passies Pond


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Farm House

Landrover

Working Sheep dog




A brief history of Coombes Church Farm

The word 'Coombe' means a dry valley. The parish was first mentioned in The Doomsday Book. When it was owned by William Fitz Norman and had 34 residents (compared with 36 in 1997)

The Coombes road and the A283 are on the same line as the red banks of the river Adur which had one time led to the thriving Harbour and Bramber (before becoming silted up). Bramber Castle was built overlooking the harbour and because of the rich traders; smuggling was rampant in those days and signs of secret tunnels have been found, stories tell of the possibility of treasure from the Spanish Armada, being thrown overboard, but never found. As the river receded the water was panned for salt, there were 42 salt pans in the Adur Valley each one paying 2/6 tax per year. The largest one being 4 acres across, they were worked by the sun evaporating most of the water. The rest finally boiled away. Salt was used mainly for preserving meat, and among the buyers were the monks of St Pancras in Lewes who farmed sheep and cattle. When food for the livestock became scarce on the feast of St Martin in November, excess animals not required for breeding were slaughtered and the carcasses salted and put in salting houses for use as food during the winter months.

 

 


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Calves

Sussex Bull

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