The farm shop just off the M6 with huge outdoor and indoor play areas across rolling fields

As farm shops go, there are few with play areas as big as at Wheelock Hall Farm in Cheshire. The family-run farm is located just a couple of miles off the M6 at junction 17 in Sandbach.

It sits on an idyllic site with sprawling fields that now boast an array of outdoor play features for families with younger children. For rainy days, there's also an indoor play barn included in the price for entry to the play zone, which is currently in the process of being extended.

This is still a working farm though, and part of the appeal is that visitors can also wander across further fields to see a host of farm animals including lambs, goats, chickens and horses. At its heart is a huge farm shop with local produce as well as an expansive range of gifts, household items and toys.

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There is also a large tearoom on the site in a converted barn space, with a menu of cooked breakfast and lunch items and its "famous" home-cooked chips. There's the option to sit in an indoor café area, as well as a wealth of outdoor seating in a pretty walled garden area with swings.

The farm has rapidly expanded its play areas in recent years, and now boasts a vast array of facilities across four different fields of the site. If you're heading in to the play zone, you'll pay £9.50 for children and £2.99 for adults.

As you walk in you will see mini tractors where kids can go for a ride, before walking through to the first fields filled with an array of play equipment including slides, tyre obstacle courses, roundabouts and bouncy animal spring seats.

There's a mini maze hidden within a cube topiary, which is completed when kids zoom through a slide. There's also a zip wire here for