An historic farm where scenes have been filmed for TV series Downton Abbey is hosting a beer festival.

The beer and cider festival is returning to Cogges Manor Farm in Witney, where the kitchens doubled for Yew Tree Farm in the popular TV series.

The festival will take place in the visitor attraction's barns from noon to 10pm on Saturday, August 10.

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There will be  40 different craft beers and ciders on sale with live music all afternoon and evening.

There will also be a barbecue and summer bar serving Pimms, wine and prosecco at the fundraiser for Cogges Heritage Trust.

Tickets cost £13.50 in advance and £15 on the day.

Tickets include entry to the barns, commemorative glass, a festival guide and two drinks tokens (one token can be exchanged for a half pint of beer or cider, or a soft drink, two tokens for a pint of beer or cider, a glass of wine, Pimms or prosecco.

More drinks tokens can be purchased on the day.

The usual farm admission applies for non-beer festival ticket holders.

(Image: Oxford Mail) No children are allowed into the beer festival after 5pm, and only beer festival ticket holders will be admitted after 5pm. You have to be 18 to buy a festival ticket.

Ticket holders wishing to visit the farm earlier than noon must buy a day ticket unless they are season ticket holders.

All adults must buy an event ticket to be admitted to the barns, where wristbands will be issued.

Cogges Manor Farm is a popular location for TV and the big screen, such as the 2019 movie Colette starring Keira Knightley, or ITV period dramas Downton Abbey or Arthur & George. 

The house is home to an array of artefacts and is a popular location for many feature films and TV series.

The farm's working Victorian range has been known for its Welsh cakes for generations.

The two 18th century barns are now used for weddings, concerts, theatre and events like the beer festival.

Originally they stored harvested crops of wheat and barley for threshing when both doors of the wheat barn are open, a draught is created which in the past would blow away the chaff from the grain, according to the attraction's website.

Fresh milk from Cogges used to be delivered locally by milkman Fred Turner and the Cook brothers, who still used a hand cart on his rounds in the 1930s.

The manor house was lived in and owned by the Mawle family until 1974.

For more visit cogges.org.uk

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