Yorkshire Museum of Farming

These include Dairy, Sheep, Pigs and Arable crops, both organic and those using Agrochemicals, an artificial inseminater and some subsistence farms. The Yorkshire Museum of Farming is located in Murton Park near York in England.

It is home to the last surviving stretch of the Derwent Valley Light Railway and a mock Roman fort called Brigantium, which is a disguised outdoor classroom designed to cater for up to 65 children at a time. This opened in 1993, and incorporates a station building formerly located at Wheldrake.

There are also buildings dedicated to the Tudor, and Viking ages, including a Dark Age village and how they farmed the land centuries ago The museum opened in 1982 originally designed to house a growing collection of farm machinery that had been donated by various farms from north and east Yorkshire to the East Yorkshire Farm Machinery Preservation Society and stored at Burton Constable. Over time it has grown to include a number of buildings displaying agricultural machines and implements including tractors and combine harvesters, plus a limited number of farm animals. Indoor displays include cut-away caterpillar tractors, photographs, James Herriot s veterinary practice and a blacksmiths along with various farming hand tools and equipment. A project by the museum, during 2007-2008 to interview a number of different farming families has been done and provides an audiovisual display of different types of farms from around Yorkshire. There is approximately 0.75 miles (1.21 km) of track running towards York. Main entrance area Front display are in main barn Rear display are in main barn Middle display are in main barn Coordinates: 53°57′40″N 1°00′32″W / 53.96105°N 1.00875°W / 53.96105; -1.00875 .

This closed in 1981, but a small section has been restored as part of the museum. A new audiovisual room was built as part of the project. The museum lies on the trackbed of the Derwent Valley Light Railway - a privately-owned standard-gauge railway which ran from Layerthorpe on the outskirts of York to Cliffe Common near Selby.

 
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