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Straw bales and Wooden Walls. Dogs Welcome
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Outdoor Barn
Outdoor barn
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Drovers Cottage
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The Shepherds Shack Main Bedroom
The Shepherds Shack Kitchen
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Pygmy Goats And Many More Farm Animals
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Outdoor Barn
Outdoor Spaces including the Woodland in the Background
Table Styling Ideas from Past Events

Drovers Rest Farm, Hay on Wye, Herefordshire

4 - 36 18 Bed

Farm wedding venue for intimate celebrations with weekend packages and accommodation for 36, near Hay on Wye

Holiday Rental for Groups of Families and Friends. Drovers Rest Farm, Hay on Wye, Herefordshire, sleeps 4 - 36 in 18 bedrooms.

Drovers Rest is a special and unique farm/barn wedding venue in stunning Herefordshire. Our concept is weekend weddings focusing on those wanting a more exclusive destination type wedding, where you will be surrounded by close friends and family who will celebrate with you from Friday to Sunday. We have beautiful indoor and outdoor spaces, including our award winning Barn and outdoor areas.
Tucked away near Hay on Wye, on the border of Wales and Herefordshire, the stunning 16th century farm is surrounded by fields, common, farm and woodland, perfect for those wanting a Barn, outdoor or festival-style wedding.
Your wedding feast will catered on-site and cooked on open fires using produce grown right here on our organic farm or sourced locally.
Award winning on-site accommodation can house your guests in a mixture of stone cottages and posh safari glamping tents with private bathrooms – we have 9 accommodation units all sleeping 4, so space for 36.
Weddings at Drovers are unique with only a limited number per year ensuring your own unique taste, style and dreams are brought to life.
A typical wedding with us includes:
– Friday night drinks and pizza (cooked in our wood fired oven) around the fire bowl
– Saturday breakfast followed by everyone getting ready for the mock ceremony, followed by the wedding breakfast in the form of a high tea, posh picnic or cold and hot buffet. Guests can then mingle with drinks and photographs can be taken outdoors. Speeches and a seated evening meal follow, the meal being either a festival barbecue, an Indian Thali or a Caribbean Feast. Dancing follows, with a midnight snack of fish finger butties or hotdogs with proper sausages.

Facilities

WiFi

Variable mobile signal. Free high speed WiFi is available in all units.

Disabled Facilities

Yes. Showers, communal barns and Safari tents have disabled access, latest regs approved.

Pets

Dogs welcome (2 per unit max).

Kitchen

Each unit has its own well equipped kitchen. There's also a restaurant for high tea, breakfasts, dinner, lunches, whatever your group desires just ask

Dining Room

Each accommodation has its own dining facilities. The Barn has dining space for 100. All our food is cooked outdoor on open fires.

Sitting Room

Each Safari tent and cottage has a lounge area. Movie screenings can be organised in the outdoor barn.

TV and Music Facilities

TV and Sky TV in the 3 cottages.

Games Room

Games, books, movie night, cocktail bar! Ping pong table.

Heating and Open Fires

All Safari tents and cottages have wood burners. Fire bowl for groups to sit around outdoors.

Bedrooms

2 bedrooms in each tent or cottage, mix of doubles and twins. Sleeps 4 people. Ask about a 3rd child. Altogether sleeping 36 people in total.

Linen

Lush Egyptian cotton linen and towels provided at no extra charge. Beds already made up when you arrive.

Bathrooms

Each Safari tent has its own shower in the stable block. Shepherd's Shack and Drover's Cottage have en suites, The Cart House has a shared bathroom.

Children's Facilities

Child friendly accommodation. Lots of animals, farm activities, play area, space to run around.

Outdoor

Campfire. Farm activities, play area. Outside dining and seating with all accommodation too. Bistro sets and outdoor sofas.

Swimming Pool

There is no swimming pool on the property. Swimming nearby. Also wild swimming on the nearby River Wye.

Parking

Private parking.

Smoking

No smoking in the accommodation.

Booking Information

10% discount if you book all 6 accommodation units.

Show Availability

Find the availability for each of our units.

The Shepherd's Shack
Drover's Cottage
The Black Sheep - Glamping - Safari Tent
Flock Off - Glamping - Safari Tents
Just Sheared - Glamping - Safari Tent
Shaggy Sheep - Glamping - Safari Tent
Woolly Warmer - Glamping - Safari Tent
The Carthouse
Lucky Ewe
Ramming Ewe

Please contact the owner for availability dates

Please contact the owner for availability dates

Please contact the owner for availability dates

Please contact the owner for availability dates

Please contact the owner for availability dates

Please contact the owner for availability dates

Please contact the owner for availability dates

Please contact the owner for availability dates

Please contact the owner for availability dates

Please contact the owner for availability dates

Location

Drovers Rest is in a rural setting near Hay on Wye and close to the Black Mountains and Brecon Beacons National Park. Part of the charm is we are off the beaten track. So do follow us on Google Maps.

  • Hay on Wye 3 miles.
  • Hereford (23 km) or Abergavenny (30 km).
  • Hay on Wye (3 miles).
  • Farm shop on site, other shopping Hay on Wye, 3 miles.
  • Hayloft Cafe on site, others at Hay on Wye, 3 miles.
  • Cardiff (100km) or Bristol (180km).

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Planning an Event?

This venue is available for Youth & School Trips and Weddings

Youth & School Trips

An educational retreat for youth groups creating a deeper consciousness of what it takes to grow food sustainably with less impact on the planet and that is better for us, the planet and the animals.

Posh Barn
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Weddings

A stunning farm/barn Wedding Venue with onsite accommodation for 36 people in cottages and posh safari glamping, set on our 16th century organic farm in Herefordshire. Wild feasts cooked on open fires

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