Facilities

Hartpury is based around a 200 Hectare Commercial Estate. This includes a Fishery, Arable Farm, Game Rearing Unit and shoot.  Hartpury Home Farm has a commercial Diary unit with over 250 Friesan-Holsten cows producing over 8600ltrs/cow/yr, the farm also holds 400 Romney X Cheviots sheep and a working pig unit. Facilities at the farm include teaching classrooms, a purpose-built lambing shed, and development workshops for CLAAS, New Holland, CASE and West Mac.

Home Farm Stud has housing for the stallions and mares and barn space for the young horses. We have foaling boxes with CCTV and foaling alarms with the addition of 24 hour care provided by qualified, experienced staff living on site. There is also a semen laboratory, a collection area with phantom mare and stocks, to allow professional undertaking of the stud work.

Hartpury College is located in the Severn Vale, to the west of the river Severn and north of Gloucester. The county of Gloucestershire provides a variety of dramatic and contrasting landscapes that are used in the delivery of programmes, with several internationally designated landscapes and protected areas with 40 minutes of the college and a multitude of farm businesses across all sectors of agriculture.

In addition college has excellent working relationships with private, public and charitable organisations within the local area who can provide student placement opportunities, research projects and help with teaching both in college and during field trips.

Hartpury House is a grade 2 listed building. The grounds of the college comprise areas of ancient semi – natural woodland, parkland, the farmed estate and amenity and equestrian grassland, as well as the formal gardens associated with the house. There are numerous small waterbodies and streams. These features are used by staff and students in the delivery of modules, for student research projects and for professional development training courses run by external organisations in association with staff, for example small mammal surveying.

The Animal Care department has an extensive range of small mammals such as rodents, African pygmy hedgehogs, rabbits and meerkats and vivarium species including reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates. We also have a number of large animal species including emus and llamas. Large aviaries house a wide variety of indigenous and non-indigenous birds and within the fully stocked aquatics room there is a diverse assortment of tropical and coldwater fish.

The onsite veterinary facilities include a mock Small Animal Veterinary Hospital, Canine Hydrotherapy Unit and Grooming Parlor. The college also has an Equine Veterinary and Therapy Centre with a High Speed Treadmill and Aquatreadmill.