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Manelly Fleming Farm, St. Veets, Cornwall

Craig Grimes — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:17:16 +0000

Manelly Fleming Farm is a 43 acre rural enterprise situated in St. Veep, an attractive rural village near the Ancient Stannery Town of Lostwithiel in Cornwall. The accommodation consists of “Berts Rest” and “Roys Barn” both of which have facilities for disabled people.

Berts Rest is of the highest quality and accessible for any disability, it is equipped for four persons. The property is a top floor studio apartment with its own independent lift and it has a wide wheelchair access doorways. Inside you will find solid oak flooring throughout the living, kitchen and bedroom areas and a wet room/bathroom all on the same level for ease of access and manoeuvrability.

Roys Barn which also sleeps up to four people is the ground floor studio apartment with a wide access door way and ramp.

Both Berts Rest and Roys Barn have similar features such as:

The living area has freeview tv, dvd, stereo, beanbag and a sofa bed with large wood windows looking over the front garden and beautiful peaceful Cornish countryside.

The kitchen is fitted with electronic worktops that you can raise or lower at the press of a button and has cooker, fridge/freezer, washing machine and all crockery and utensils.

The bedroom has two single electric adjustable beds with tempor mattress’s for ultimate comfort, also there is an electric hoist, bedside table and French dresser again with two windows looking over the front garden and countryside.

The wet room is fitted with a fully automated sink unit which raise and lowers, taps turn on and off and plug opens and closes at the push of a button. It also is fitted out with an electric hoist with a level access shower and wet chair.

Fitted with alarm pull cords throughout the apartment for peace of mind and safety.

Both properties have been assessed by Visit England’s National Accessible Scheme (NAS), for further details please visit the Manelly Fleming Farm website.

Further details can also be found in the OpenBritain 2010 Guide on page 99.

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Hartswheal Stables, Lostwithiel Fowey, Cornwall

Craig Grimes — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:10:26 +0000

Hartswheal Stables at Hartswheal Farm is self catering accommodation at a Cornish working farm where the stables is the lower floor of an old granary which has been converted for wheelchair access. The accommodation has a profiling electric bed and ceiling hoist with tracking into the bathroom.

The property is located just off the A390 one mile east of Lostwithiel, Cornwall and 5 miles from Fowey, the Eden Project and Bodmin.

A full Access Statement is available in PDF format on the OpenBritain website, just click on the blue AS symbol in the accommodation description for further details.

Further details can also be found in the OpenBritain 2010 Guide on page 95.

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Woodlands Country House, Cornwall

Craig Grimes — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:18:45 +0000

Woodlands Country House is a comfortable, award winning, family run B&B guesthouse, standing in a rural setting with farmland views, sweeping down to Trevone Bay, just around the corner from Padstow, Cornwall. The accommodation has 1 adpated bedroom with facilities for disabled people including a roll in shower and also an Access Statement.

The Woodland’s website has an Out and About page for local actvities and they have indicated which attractions have facilities for disabled people.

Information regarding the Woodlands Country House can also be found on OpenBritain.

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Tate Collection

Craig Grimes — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:53:17 +0000

When I think of the Tate Gallery I think of one gallery in London, maybe this is because I’m simply not in the know, the Tate Collection is actually 4 galleries across the UK and they provide quite a lot of information for disabled people on their website. I would recommend that you visit the website and have a look around for the information that you require but here’s a brief over view of the galleries and some of the available information.

The website is broken down into the 4 seperate gallaries, Tate Britain, Modern (both in London), Liverpool and St. Ives. In each section the format is the same.

On the Visiting pages there is general information regarding the specific gallery including the address, opening hours, admission prices and how to get there. This information is also available in British Sign Language (BSL) through RealPlayer and it also gives the Minicom number for deaf people.

Visiting Pages:

Tate Britain

Tate Modern

Tate Liverpool

Tate St. Ives
Each of the galleries has an Access and Facilities Page and a page relating to different programmes that the gallery runs for visitors with learning disabilities, blind and deaf people.

Access and Facilities:

Programmes:

The Tate Boat

There is also the Tate Boat which runs between the Tate Britain and Tate Modern and the site states that:
The Tate Boat can accommodate wheelchair users.

However, exceptionally high tides mean that the Tate Boat cannot navigate certain Thames bridges and a replacement vessel may be used at these times. Some replacement vessels are not able to accommodate wheelchair users so we strongly recommend that customers call 020 7887 8888 on the day of travel for further details.

Guide and hearing dogs are welcome on the Tate Boat.

Access at the Tate Collection

You can find all of this of this information and more on one handy Tate Collection Access Page.

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Trebah Garden, Cornwall

Craig Grimes — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:00:20 +0000

Trebah Garden is 26 acres of sub-tropical paradise, located in Cornwall where you can explore under canopies bursting with exotic blooms and follow vibrant tunnels of all year round colour that cascade down to a private beach on the Helford River.

“Information for visitors with disabilities

Parking We have four disabled parking spaces for badge holders near our visitor centre.

Admission Prices For registered disabled: £3.00 per person and for carers: £3.00 per person.

Motorised buggies/wheelchairs Trebah is a ravine garden and has steep sections and steps on some paths making wheelchair use difficult. However, three motorised buggies and one carer controlled buggy are available for use in the garden.

A full demonstration will be given by a member of staff. We recommend visitors telephone to book in advance as the buggies and wheelchair are very much in demand. (Telephone 01326 252200).

The Planters Café, the Gallery Shop and Gardens Shops are fully accessible.

Toilet facilities: We have a fully adapted unisex toilets in the visitor centre. If you have any queries whilst in the garden, Trebah staff will be pleased to help.

Dogs are welcome in the garden and on the beach – on a lead at all times please. We ask that you leave your dogs outside Planters Café but they are welcome on the café veranda and in the picnic area. Water bowls are available outside the visitor centre and poop scoops given to dog owners on arrival.”

Currently there is also the ‘Textiles Plus Trebah’ Exhibition on until the 9th October which is “A collection of work inspired by Trebah from over a two year period, produced by the local group ‘Textiles Plus’ and on display in the Visitor Centre and Planters Cafe.

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