Farm café on Lake District edge wins online praise for views and animals

Summarised from 4 outlets · Updated 15 Nov, 05:58 · Archive

Wellington Farm Café & Tearooms near Cockermouth offers homemade meals, ice cream and visits with alpacas and llamas.

Wellington Farm Café & Tearooms, on Lamplugh Road near Cockermouth, is receiving rave reviews online for its location on the edge of the Lake District, homemade food and on-site animals. The café offers panoramic views across the Cumbrian fells and allows visitors to meet alpacas, llamas, pigs, sheep, donkeys, horses, rabbits and other animals at a free farm enclosure accessible by a short walk from the café. Peacocks also roam the grounds outside.

Recent visitors have described it as a 'superb farm tea room' with 'stunning location with far-reaching views of the fells', with another noting 'a friendly peacock or two wandering past the windows'.

The Stamper family bought Wellington Farm in 1946 and now run it through the third generation. In 2003, Leigh and Hodgson Stamper decided to diversify by bringing Jersey cows to the farm, planning a café and ice cream operation. The café opened in 2005. Although the farm no longer keeps its own Jersey herd, Leigh and his niece Ashton continue to make Wellington Jersey Ice Cream using Jersey milk and the family's own recipe, sold exclusively at the café.

The café offers all-day breakfasts, light bites, main meals, Sunday lunches and homemade cakes, alongside local beers, ciders and wines. Ice cream comes in 16 flavours at a time and is used in milkshakes, sundaes, waffles and £7.95 'freakshakes' topped with a mini doughnut. Afternoon tea costs £32.95 per person and includes finger sandwiches, a homemade sausage roll, tartlets, cakes, a scone and tea or coffee.

How it is being reported

• 'What a find' farm café off A66 on edge of Lake District with alpacas and llamasA "what a find" farm café on the edge of the Lake District, where visitors can meet alpacas, llamas and spot peacocks roaming outside, is receiving rave...News & Star · 15 Nov, 05:00
• 'What a find' farm café off A66 on edge of Lake District with alpacas and llamasA "what a find" farm café on the edge of the Lake District, where visitors can meet alpacas, llamas and spot peacocks roaming outside, is receiving rave...Westmorland Gazette · 15 Nov, 05:00
• 'What a find' farm café off A66 on edge of Lake District with alpacas and llamasA "what a find" farm café on the edge of the Lake District, where visitors can meet alpacas, llamas and spot peacocks roaming outside, is receiving rave...Whitehaven News · 15 Nov, 05:00
• 'What a find' farm café off A66 on edge of Lake District with alpacas and llamasA "what a find" farm café on the edge of the Lake District, where visitors can meet alpacas, llamas and spot peacocks roaming outside, is receiving rave...NW Evening Mail · 15 Nov, 05:00

In this story: Wellington Farm Café & Tearooms · Lake District · Cockermouth · Stamper family · Leigh Stamper · Ashton Stamper

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