Latest news
Latest News
Farm attraction closed – but farm shop remains open.
Sadly due to the latest government announcement we have once again had to close the farm attraction.
The Farm Shop will be open as normal and hot drinks and snacks will be served from the shack outside the White Bull between 9am and 2.15pm.
If ...read more
Our farm shop is open!
We know things are very unpredictable at the moment, but we want to reassure customers that Cannon Hall Farm shop is open as usual.
Due to the locally sourced nature of our produce, and the fact that a huge portion of our baked goods and deli counter items are ...read more
Preorder our book bundles now!
The moment has arrived – and we are so excited to be able to offer on preorder our book Living Our Best Lives!
What the publisher says:
The tough and touching tale of a real Yorkshire family farm.
In the 60 years that Yorkshire farmer Roger Nicholson has lived ...read more
Animals and Farmers
Live Your Best Life!
Follow the Facebook-famous farmers of Cannon Hall Farm as they spread cheer and news from the family farm.
Join in on the positivity with our Living My Best Life tee-shirt, the slogan instantly recognisable from Farmer Robert's live broadcasts!
This design ...read more
Welcome Dougal!
Cannon Hall Farm is proud to announce the arrival of Dougal, a beautiful pedigree Highland cow.
He is the first calf to be born to Emma, who came to the farm in calf from a championship herd in 2019.
Dougal has made many friends already and likes a good run around.
Swiss Valais Twins – Lambing During Lockdown!
** WARNING: GRAPHIC FOOTAGE **
We might not be broadcasting live but the work continues round the clock during lambing time.
Watch what happens when Farmer Robert comes across a Swiss Valais sheep lambing.
Farm Food
Click and collect afternoon tea
Our scrumptious afternoon teas are back for 2020 - with a brand new takeaway service from our farm shop!This delicious treat features freshly cut sandwiches filled with ham, cheese and tomato, beef and horseradish and salmon and cream ...read more
Click and Collect Christmas Food!
For the first time ever, Cannon Hall Farm has launched an online Christmas shop.
Not only have we unveiled our range of premium giftware which will include everything from socks to sweatshirts, hats and scarves, greetings cards to tea cups, tote ...read more
Food Festival – August 23 to 26
Awards and Celebrations
We’ve won two awards!
Cannon Hall Farm in Barnsley is celebrating after scooping two prestigious awards in a national tourism competition.We won UK’s Best Large Farm Attraction and also scooped the gong for Best Digital Presence, which covers all our work online and on social media ...read more
We’ve been shortlisted!
Cannon Hall Farm has beat off stiff competition to be shortlisted for two national awards.
We competed against scores of farm parks across the country to get through to the finals of the National Farm Attractions Network annual awards.
We have ...read more
Vote for Chef Tim!
Our chef Tim has been shortlisted for a prestigious award and needs your votes!Tim is our head chef in the White Bull and ran the successful Spiced Pear before coming to the farm.He has been diagnosed with stage four cancer and is undergoing immunotherapy to try to ...read more
Cannon Hall Farm TV
A Letter For Our Customers
To all our customers,
We’re sorry to announce that we will be temporarily closing the Farm and our White Bull, Hungry Llama and Lucky Pup restaurants from tomorrow (November 5, 2020).
This decision has been made in light of the recent UK Government ...read more
Friday on the Farm TV Show
Don't forget to tune in to Channel 5 on Friday nights at 9pm as Cannon Hall Farm lands a brand new TV series. Our farming brothers Rob and Dave Nicholson appear on Friday on the Farm, filmed ‘as live’ from our Barnsley base.
Presented by Helen Skelton ...read more
The Yorkshire Vet
Our reindeer Prince will be appearing on The Yorkshire Vet on Tuesday (September 29) at 8pm on Channel 5 so make sure you set your telly boxes to record.
Peter Wright offers some advice to Matt our vet from Donaldson's Vets as they rush to check out Prince's poorly eye.
Can our magical reindeer recover? Tune in on Tuesday.