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Wellgate Community Farm

Attraction · Marks Gate, England

Wellgate Community Farm is at Collier Row Road, RM5 2BH, in the Marks Gate salient at the borough's northern tip. The council publishes that the farm is open to the public from 9am to 3:30pm, 9am to 12pm on public holidays, that entry is free, and that events and pre-booked activities are priced as advertised. It keeps chickens, goats, sheep and rabbits. No rail, Underground, Overground, Elizabeth line or DLR station lies within 3 km; buses 62, 247 and 362 serve it and the nearest stop, Sungate Cottages, is about 150 m away.

History

It is a community farm, a charity numbered 1091729 and a company numbered 04370324, and its own site describes it as nestled in between the London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham and Havering. Activity strands the council names are Farmer for a Day, a Spinners and Knitters group and Herbies gardening for children. The postal address is a Romford RM5 postcode although the farm falls inside Barking and Dagenham.

Visit

Wellgate Farm, Collier Row Road, Romford, London RM5 2BH

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