THE HISTORY OF SWISS FARM

Swiss Farm was taken over by the Borlase family in 1946. In those days most of the land
was used for dairy cattle and a few chickens. Customers would stay on the farm in bell tents, often visiting from London and storing their belongings in the farm buildings.
In 1968, Harold William Borlase handed the business to his son Stephen who set about building up a poultry business on the farm with 25,000 chickens and bringing in pedigree beef cattle. As farming became less and less profitable, Stephen turned his attention towards tourism and put together an ambitious schedule of building work and landscaping. Nearly 30 years later, in 1997, the business was taken over by his son, Joseph, who has continued to improve the park by introducing new goals to ensure Swiss Farm provides the very best camping experience.

In 2008 we started to introduce all weather pitches to the park and re surface roads and car parks. We also started to refurbish our main facility block.

2009 saw the full refurbishment of our second facility block and the upgrading of our water and electric systems.

In 2010 we refurbished 43 pitches and landscaped a large section of the park  continuing to refurbish the park facilities, adding flower beds and trees.

In 2011 we built a new reception and added a small shop for the convenience of customers. We also refurbished the bar area.

 

THE FUTURE FOR SWISS FARM 

For the 2012 season we will be re surfacing the entrance of the park and introducing new park signs. The ladies showers have undergone a full refurbishment. 

We will be re-organising the tenting fields and adding trees to provide shade.

We will be concentrating on attention to detail and adding extra chemical disposal points, recycling etc. 

For the 2013 season we hope to complete our schedule of upgrades by replacing the 50 long term pitches on the centre of the park with 30 beautiful new all weather pitches, new roads and landscaping. We hope that customers will enjoy the increased space quality of this new area.

The Farm

We have introduced animals to the farm for the first time in 15 years. Customers will now be able to see the following (depending on the season)
Rare breed Berkshire pigs
A pedigree heard of Sussex cattle
A mixture of sheep breeds
Our animals are all free range and are kept to the highest welfare standards. 

Our green credentials

We know that our customers come to us to spend time in the countryside and to enjoy being surrounded by nature so we would like to look after our part of the world. For this reason we have introduced the following initiatives:

Solar: We have installed solar panels to heat the water from the showers

Water: We pump all our own water from a deep well on the park. This is then taken through a filtration plant and then an Ultra Violet machine to ensure that it passes all the necessary purity tests.

Recycling: We now have the facility to recycle plastics, paper and bottles

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