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Fair Oak Cider Fair Oak cider is made in a 17th-century mill in Herefordshire which is now again, after a hundred-year gap, being worked by a horse.

This year's Open Weekend will be Saturday and Sunday, October 25 and 26, 11 till 4. Visitors will be able to watch our ...
19/10/2025

This year's Open Weekend will be Saturday and Sunday, October 25 and 26, 11 till 4.

Visitors will be able to watch our young Gypsy Cob, Featherstone, working the mill - this is his second season - and the cider makers working the old press.

Cider made last year will be available to taste and buy, including six varieties of still cider, and one Sparkling.

Admission free: donations please to the Laurie Engel Fund for Teenage Cancer Trust.

Fair Oak, Bacton, Herefordshire HR2 0AT 01981 241 210

Visitors to the Open Weekend on October 26 and 27, will be able to watch Featherstone, our four-year-old Gypsy Cob, work...
20/10/2024

Visitors to the Open Weekend on October 26 and 27, will be able to watch Featherstone, our four-year-old Gypsy Cob, working the mill. Feathers has been with us since he was a foal. He was trained and taught to drive by Vika Engel, tutored in the mill by Wendy and John Lloyd, who own our previous mill horses, Pye and Tommy, and now he is assisted by David Wilkins, also known as Red.

Feathers has grown up to be a calm, good-natured horse: and he's just the right size for the mill. His ears just fit under the beams.

We're open from 11 till 4 on both days. Feathers will probably have finished milling by 2, but he will be happy to receive admirers after that, while the cider makers are pressing.

03/10/2024

Great to be a finalist !

27/09/2024

Apple Harvest
Helpers wanted on Saturday morning 28 September to pick apples in Golden Valley orchard. Families welcome.
Contact Hilary Engel for details

17/08/2024
Team Fairoak in full swing making cider the traditional way. Tommy (the horse) will be in action lunchtime so if you wan...
07/10/2023

Team Fairoak in full swing making cider the traditional way. Tommy (the horse) will be in action lunchtime so if you want to catch head down before 1pm.

Up and running today
07/10/2023

Up and running today

06/10/2023

Another Hereford AppleFest Fringe event: visitors to Fair Oak Cider will be welcome to watch Tommy, a Gypsy Cob, working the restored 17th-century cider mill on their farm (the only one operating commercially in the UK).

Their cider makers will also be working the old press and Fair Oak Cider will be available to taste and buy.

More on Hereford AppleFest fringe: https://herefordcitycouncil.gov.uk/hereford-applefest/

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