Wow. For all you gorgeous couples out there trying to visualise your wedding weekend help is at hand; Green Union Weddings & Middle Coombe Farm, Devon– with kind permission of Alice & Kevin who married here last June & My Fabulous Life photography- can share this beautiful ?#?woodlandwedding? ?#?romantic? ?#?perfectplace? blog written by the bride, Alice, with Rosie Ames of Green Union.
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Green Union Blog on Middle Coombe Farm…
A beautiful farm with woodland in Mid Devon. Unique and desperately romantic wedding venue that sits in its own breathtaking valley, hidden deep in the Devon countryside. Middle Coombe has 400 acres of sustainable woodland and organically certified farmland means you have this stunning venue all to yourself for the whole weekend. Red deer, birds, badgers, rolling hills, beautiful farmhouse and cider barn and its own ancient oak ceremony tree. What’s not to like?
Middle Coombe Farm Wedding Top Tips & Trends
This farm in the heart of Devon was made for country garden style weddings in the woods. There are 200 acres of woodland on site, as well as a hot tub, a swimming pool and a BBQ courtyard. You can celebrate your marriage in the glade by the oak tree, which is a ten minute walk – some couples choose to set up a treasure hunt along the way!
Couples who marry at Middle Coombe Farm use the whole venue, the cider barn venue for their legal ceremony; then walk with their guests in a procession into the woodlands to the oak tree site with woodland seating where they often choose to have their speeches or a humanist ceremony. They may pop a few bottles of champagne afterwards (there’s nothing like the sound of popping corks in the woodlands), then back to the rustic bar for drinks and socialising. The wedding breakfast can take place in a marquee overlooking the woodlands.
A Bohemian Woodland Hand Fasting Wedding @Middle Coombe Farm
Genna and Ollie married back in the summer of 2013 on a glorious day in the middle of the woods.
Their whole wedding ethos was about celebrating the nature surrounding them and of course their love. Luckily they found Middle Coombe Farm in Devon where they could hold their hand fasting ceremony under the trees.
Genna wore a vintage 1920s wedding dress with flowers in her hair and Ollie donned a vintage tweed jacked teamed with eclectic pieces. There were wild fllowers, camping, wooden wedding rings and home made details. Amazing.
Bally Brilliant Best Bits To Visit Around @Middle Coombe Farm, Devon.
Situated in the heart of Devon, exclusive C16th Middle Coombe Farm & it’s 400 acres of farm & private woodland is fantastically situated for guests to enjoy this fabulous, historic area. This is still a family home and the love and constant sympathetic restoration of the buildings & grounds mean this venue becomes more beautiful each year. Leave the car parked up for the weekend and enjoy the tranquility of your very own country house experience with your family & friends or explore the surrounding areas. Whether you love walking, riding, fishing, cycling, art, history, simply watching birds & nature in their element or just general exploring, this location is fantastic.
Middle Coombe Farm Autumn Magic. Half-Term Halloween Offers.
Where do the season’s go? Have we really spun towards half-term with such speed this year?
The countryside and Middle Coombe Farm are looking particularly beautiful this October. It doesn’t matter what age you are…when the leaves start falling and the ground is covered in a light carpet of crisp, golden and orange leaves…I bet you skip a bit too…when no one’s looking.
I walk through our woods from my little cottage to work most days and love the fact that the landscapes and woods, the colours and the light change hour by hour in these parts. A particularly winning combination at Middle Coombe Farm for our guests as they can return from walking in our woodlands to gorgeous, historic, 4 star accommodation with a large open fire (in the drawing room & a huge working fireplace in the attached back courtyard) & wood burner & underfloor heating in the adjacent Allensdown Barn. All is warmed gently by our biomass boiler, fuelled with delicious smelling wood from our own 220 acres of sustainably run woodland.
Pack the children, friends, parents, grandparents & family dog into your car & come for a 3 night (or more) ‘off piste’ country house & country experience at the ultimate family home with it’s very own woodlands. We are a rare find.
Bampton Charter Fair. ..Music, Crafts, Food, Folklore & Exmoor Ponies. Thursday October 29th 2015
Bampton Charter Fair. Feather in the pony’s cap for Devon County. Amazing family day out…
Bampton Fair existed even before King Henry III granted it a Royal Charter in 1258 and it is always held on the last Thursday of October. It is one of the oldest surviving Charter Fairs in the country.
Middle Coombe Farm, our 400 acre farm & woodland venue, is offering 3 night mini-breaks for a small group of 4-8 guests or for one larger family group of between 12-16 guests from Thursday afternoon 29th October through to Sunday midday. The perfect Autumnal country house experience with 200 acres of private woodland to walk & explore. Middle Coombe Farm even has it’s own large hot tub (open all year long) to relax and bubble all those everyday stresses away.
Bampton, joyously, is just 10minutes drive from Middle Coombe Farm.
Autumn Mischief ! Near Middle Coombe Farm, Devon. October 2015
Brrrrrrr. Autumn is upon us once more and it’s all change for the season at Middle Coombe Farm.
We want to tell you that the red deer in our 220 acres of woodland are rutting, the owls are a-hooting and the colours of the trees and woodlands are magical. Autumn suits Middle Coombe Farm.
There are a myriad of great events & food & drink festivals happening in the surrounding parts (within half an hour of Middle Coombe Farm) which can add an extra dimension to a wonderful weekend break in the mid Devon hills.
Check these fab events out & contact us for availability with your small or large party.
Kate & Euan’s Big Wedding Weekend- 17th-22nd June 2015. Bagpipes, Gods & Mead
Kate & Euan’s Big Middle Coombe Farm Weekend- June 17th-22nd June 2015
On Wednesday 17th June 2015 Kate and Euan arrived at Middle Coombe Farm in Devon buzzing & in love. Their big weekend was to start that Saturday but they wanted to give themselves an evening to be together quietly, to walk in the woodlands, relax, get in our big beautiful outdoor pool & hot tub and have a good night’s sleep before all the excitement & joyous emotions their happy union would evoke from friends & families. The sun shone, the birds sang & all was peaceful at Middle Coombe Farm.
Derek Jarman & Middle Coombe Farm Devon
There is a singular connection between Middle Coombe Farm and the acclaimed artist, Derek Jarman. Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman.
In his book The Last Of England, Jarman writes about Coombe:
“My great-grandparents had done that. Left their farm in Middle Coombe, Uplowman, Devon, to go to New Zealand. I have an extraordinary picture of them taken in the 1850’s. I decided on The Last Of England.”
This connection started to reveal itself when a Mr David Jarman, who knew he was related to Derek Jarman, came to see us 2 years ago. He was visiting from his home in New Zealand and had been researching his family history. He discovered they originally came from Middle Coombe, Devon and wanted to see his ancestral home. Fascinated, he turned up and knocked on our door.