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23.04.2022 - 12:05 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Nestled down a residential lane close to Manchester Airport, this is the farm shop with tearooms and huge play areas for kids that has become a firm family favourite for days out. Nixons Farm Shop in Heald Green has expanded in recent years to offer a range of attractions for shoppers and families alike.
There's a raft of glowing reviews on TripAdvisor hailing the farm shop and facilities "fantastic", "amazing" and "a great place for children to play and for you to have a coffee". Families praise the vast play areas with loads of indoor and outdoor seating with two different tearooms to choose from.
The outdoor play area includes loads of play equipment, chalk boards and climbing walls with picnic style seating. There's also a covered canopy area which includes lots more seating, play equipment and a bouncy castle.
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Meanwhile inside, in the farm's converted cow shed, is now a huge play barn. It boasts a mini-tractor race track (well, as fast as little legs can peddle anyway) and more bouncy castles.
There's a dedicated soft play area for the littlest kiddies, and a lego mega-brick play zone. There's even a football strip running the length of the barn for older children to shoot some goals.
The farm has been owned by the Nixon family since 1930, and they've sought to diversify over the years to rise to the ever-changing economic landscape. And during lockdown they took the opportunity to really expand on their outdoor space, which has created the brilliant new play areas open today.
Julie Egglestone runs the farm shop with husband Roger, her brother Paul Nixon and cousin Ian Nixon. She says: "During lockdown we were open all the time, we put
A ban on sunbeds could reduce the number of deaths from deadly skin cancer, a new study shows.
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