Farms For Sale

Types of farming include arable, the UK being the fourth largest producer of cereal and oilseed crops in the EU, pastoral, which is the rearing and production of animals including pigs, chickens, hill farming sheep, beef and dairy cattle and mixed farming which is a combination of both arable and pastoral. Farming contributed £5.6 billion to the UK economy in 2006 and the total area of agricultural land at that time was 18.7 million hectares, which is roughly 77 per cent of the total land area in the United Kingdom.

Strutt and Parker who specialise in the sale and purchase of estates and farmland have recently launched the Cockayne Hatley Estate in Sandy, Bedfordshire. With a price tag of £9,500,000, the estate is considered to be one of the most productive commercial arable farms in the area. Combining quality Grade 2 Hanslope series land with two ranges of commercial farm buildings and three dwellings, the focus of the estate has been on high output production from a range of combinable arable crops. The estate also supports a shoot. The property is already Under Offer.

Another arable farming estate with a sporting partridge shoot, Wheat Hill Farm in Buntingford, Hertfordshire has recently been sold for £6,000,000. Comprising of approximately 696 acres, a Georgian style farm house, two cottages, farm buildings, and grain storage for 1200 tonnes. The partridge and pheasant shoot consisted of 705 acres.

Thirston West Farm, Felton in Morpeth, Northumberland, is on sale with a guide price of £3,500,000. The farm extends to some 573 acres and is a productive commercial arable farm on the well known Northumberland coastal plain. About 536 acres are in arable production, involving a rotation of wheat, barley and oil seed rape.

Aberlour in Moray, North East Scotland with offers in excess of £2,640,000 is a highly productive arable and stock farm located in the Spey Valley, an area of considerable natural scenic beauty. The Aberlour Estate is situated to the south of Charlestown of Aberlour, a thriving rural community and home to Walkers shortbread and various malt whiskey