IF YOU are still searching for festive finishing touches and last minute treats, visit the National Trust’s Christmas Fair at Southwood Farm near Newgale this Saturday (December 13).
The event will run from 10.30am to 4pm, and entry is free.
The Trust has spent the last 18 months restoring the grade II listed farmhouse and courtyard, left to the charity in a legacy.
The buildings date from between 1820 and 1850, and until the 1900s, Southwood Farm and Lodge were used by the estate’s owners as a Christmas holiday retreat.
Several of the outbuildings will be opened up to the public for the first time at the Fair. Refreshments will be found in the Hunting Lodge, or you could prop up the non-alcoholic bar in the main farmhouse, recently opened as a Bed and Breakfast by tenants Paul and Jo Williams.
Locally based artists, crafts people and producers will bring the farm back to life, offering unique jewellery, soft furnishings, up-cycled accessories, cakes and hot, free range rare breed pork produce from Trehale farm.
A Children’s Santa trail will give younger visitors the opportunity to explore the Victorian farm buildings. There will also be a raffle to win a National Trust Christmas Hamper.
“This is our first Christmas Fair at Southwood Farm and we hope to start a Pembrokeshire tradition to match the Boxing Day Newgale beach walk,” said manager for the North Pembrokeshire Coast properties Andrew Tuddenham. “It’s such a charming range of traditional buildings that the place feels almost ready-made for Christmas!”
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