There's a particular kind of quiet that only exists on a farm during a Farm Stay in the UK. Not silence exactly… the birds see to that, and at Pepples Farm the Red Kites certainly do their bit. But there's a stillness underneath it all that you don't find in hotels, or country house spas, or even most countryside cottages. It's the quiet of land that has been doing something for a very long time. Land that doesn't need you to do anything in return, except notice it.

Planning a romantic getaway in Essex? Here’s how to do it properly… from a private copper bath on a farm that has been here since 1560, to a medieval market town five miles down the road.

You arrive tired, and something in the air begins doing the work before you’ve even unpacked. This is what happens at Pepples Farm when you escape the city for the quiet calm that’s so special here in Wimbish.