Sinnington Common Farm is a working family farm with 135 acres. The cottages have been sympathetically converted from farm buildings but most of the original buildings have been retained and are still used for farming purposes. Some of the buildings are up to 300 years old and swallows return to them each year flying in and out of the buildings all summer long. The farm is set in beautiful countryside on the edge of the North Yorkshire moors in Ryedale.

Our many farmyard animals include goats, poultry, Dasher the Dexter bull (who thinks he's a horse!), coloured horses, Haflinger pony, pot-bellied pig, friendly farm cats, ewes and lambs (pet lambs to feed at certain times of the year). Many are rescue animals and guests are welcome to interact with them.

You are welcome to bring your pet and we have a picturesque farm walk with wildlife to see including foxes, hares, deer, curlews, partridges, skylarks, lapwings, herons and pheasants. The farm has an environmental friendly policy to encourage wildlife and our animals graze happily on land free from chemical fertilisers and sprays.

Now included in our farm walk is a track which follows our tree-lined beck round a field of Short Coppice Willow, which will provide green energy to Drax power station. The willows were planted in 2008 and will be cut back February-March 2009, then left for three years to mature before being harvested. Another green scheme in the offing is a wind turbine which will provide electricity to the holiday cottages and farm, with any surplus exported to the grid.