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Just outside Monkton Farleigh, between Bath and Bradford-on-Avon, you'll find this working farm with an excellent café and shop attached.
It's the sort of place where locals know to stop, and once you visit, you'll understand why. The café serves proper breakfasts, good lunches, and the kind of coffee and cakes that make the journey worthwhile on their own. Everything is built around fresh, quality ingredients, with much of it coming straight from their own fields or from other reliable local producers.
The farm shop itself rewards a proper browse. You'll find seasonal fruits and vegetables, locally reared meat, artisanal cheeses, and bread baked fresh. It genuinely reflects what this corner of the Cotswolds produces and does well. Because it's a family-run operation on an active farm, there's an authenticity you won't find everywhere—you're looking at generations of farming tradition that has kept this landscape and community going. The whole setup feels genuinely rooted in its surroundings rather than simply planted there for passing trade. If you're driving the quieter routes between Bath and Bradford-on-Avon and want to stop somewhere that belongs to the place rather than just occupying space in it, this is exactly the sort of spot worth pulling over for.
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