Honeybrook Farm
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Honeybrook Farm (grid reference ST841730) is a working farm three miles (4.8 km) south of Castle Combe in Wiltshire, England, between the villages of Biddestone and Slaughterford.[1] The farm has a total area of sixty-five hectares (160 acres), of which forty-two point four one hectares (104.8 acres) are designated as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest.[2]
Honeybrook Farm is situated within the Cotswolds National Landscape (formerly known as Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, or AONB) and the Bybrook River. The SSSI was designated due to the national importance of the herb-rich meadows and high quality calcareous grassland. The farmers have a small herd of Herefords, some sheep and grow a small amount of Spring barley.[1]
Honeybrook Farm is one of only a few British lowland farms which have retained a low-intensity management where agricultural chemicals have never been utilised. The farm is underlain by the oolitic limestone of the Wiltshire Cotswolds, and there are two parts a dry combe to the east and part of the flood plain of the By Brook to the west. Rocks of the Bridport Sand Formation emerge at the base of the limestone where it meets the floodplain.[2]