Hop Farm Family Park

The Hop Farm Family Park is a 400-acre Country Park in Beltring, near East Peckham in Kent, England, is over 450 years old, and has the largest collection of oast houses in the world. Until 1997 The bounce cultivate was known as The Whitbread Hop Farm and was possessed by the Whitbread bottling works. Initially a working ranch, the distillery opened it up to guests and it demonstrated a well known fascination. As Whitbread were trying to move out of the fermenting exchange, they started searching for new proprietors in the 1990s.

In 1997, Mohamed Al-Fayed needed to purchase The Hop Farm to stable his Shire ponies, and another adversary needed it for an uncommon breeds focus, however Brent and Fiona Pollard were effective in their buy, at an expense of 2 million pounds. Sadly, because of mis-administration, the business was in a bad position; turnover was around £700,000 per year and in 1995 misfortunes were £1.5 million. In their first year the Pollands lessened staff from 50 to 14 and endured a dry season, surges, a gas pipeline establishment and the flare-up of foot and mouth illness. Anyway they equaled the initial investment, and in resulting years their benefits developed.