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Cogges Heritage Trust is celebrating its fifth year of re-opening the manor and farm. From a shaky start it's gone from strength to strength. In fact, I heard that we are about to welcome our 200,00th visitor. Not bad considering we only had 11,000 visitors the first year we opened.
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Drawing of Wadard in the Bayeux Tapestry.
This season we have started doing Downton Abbey tours at at Cogges and I'm one of the tour guides. One of the facts I like to tell the visitors is that we have over a thousand years of history to our name. Some people believe that the mounds and bumps in the field beside the walled garden are the remains...
Patsy looking out the hole in the loft door.
I've been volunteering at Cogges Manor Farm, (also known as Yew Tree Farm in a certain ITV period drama), in Witney for about three years now. I've loved every minute of it. Being a people person, I love meeting and greeting the visitors that come through the doors, even the awkward ones who seem hard...
The week beginning Monday the first of June is National Volunteer Week. Cogges relies heavily on its volunteers and I thought I'd take this opportunity to write about the roles played by our dedicated team of volunteers.
I’ve been a volunteer at Cogges since it re-opened in 2011. I w...
I’ve been a volunteer at Cogges ever since it re-opened to the public on the 17th June, 2011. I remember the opening day very clearly. It was a typical English Summer day, the rain never stopped. But this didn’t seem to dampen the enthusiasm of the hundreds of people who turned out to support us. There were lots of events going...
Cogges Manor Farm
Church Lane
Witney OX28 3LA
Free car park OX28 3FR
Tel: 01993 772602
Charity No. 1141906
