Spitalfields City Farm

City farm in London, England

51°31′19″N 0°04′01″W / 51.522°N 0.067°W / 51.522; -0.067Visitors18,000^[1]OpenTuesday to SundayWebsitehttps://www.spitalfieldscityfarm.org

Spitalfields City Farm is a city farm in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, a short distance from Brick Lane.^[2]

The farm was opened in 1978 on a 1.3-acre (0.53 ha) wasteland site that was a former railway goods depot. Initially an allotment site, it expanded to house animals, and became a charity in 1980.^[1]

Since 2008 the farm has held an annual "Oxford vs Cambridge Goat Race", coinciding with and parodying The Boat Race on the River Thames.^[3]^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Our history". Spitalfields City Farm. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
^ "Things You Might Not Have Done Near Brick Lane". Londonist. 6 January 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
^ Thomson, Lizzie (2 April 2019). "Everything you need to know about the Oxford vs Cambridge Goat Race". Evening Standard. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
^ Middleton-Welch, Maya (8 April 2019). "Oxford triumphant in 2019 Goat Race". The Oxford Student. Retrieved 2 October 2019.