Cogges Manor Farm Museum
The museum provides daily activities for children and families in the school holidays, themed weekends, and summer evening performances. The museum was subsidised by Oxfordshire County Council. Coordinates: 51°47′03″N 1°28′41″W / 51.78417°N 1.47795°W / 51.78417; -1.47795 . Visitors can speak with the traditionally-dressed dairy maids, farm staff and house staff as they re-enact the daily work of that era.There are demonstrations of farm work such as hand-milking and butter-making and the work of the housemaids in the Manor House. for the widows of successive Barons Grey of Rotherfield. During the 16th century the manor passed through various owners.
The house has an activities room in which children can try on Victorian clothes and play with replica toys and games of the period. The original Manor House was a Cotswold stone building dating from the middle of the 13th century. The manor house was probably built after Walter de Grey, Archbishop of York bought part of the manor of Cogges in AD 1241.
The farm buildings house historic farm implements and machinery and traditional breeds of farm animals. There is a display of the history of the Manor House on the first floor. A modern single-storey brick-built shop and café has been built on one side of the farmyard. Cogges Manor Farm is a living museum depicting Oxfordshire rural life in the Victorian era.
