Exclusive-use farm wedding venue near Eydon · Daventry, Northamptonshire
A family-run barn estate at Eydon where couples take exclusive use of converted stone farm buildings, gardens and bedrooms for three days.
Crockwell Farm is a family-run wedding venue at Eydon, near Daventry, created from sympathetically converted stone farm buildings at the centre of a privately owned working farm. The buildings include an oak glazed entrance hall, a vaulted ceremony barn and internal marquees with panoramic views over the Northamptonshire countryside. Set against rolling countryside, fields surround the venue on all sides, which makes it a secluded and very beautiful spot. Couples have exclusive use of Crockwell over three days, and the farmhouse and cottages are a home away from home rather than a hotel.
Hire runs from 2pm the day before the wedding to midday the day after, and the venue does not take wedding bookings on consecutive days. Couples arrive the afternoon before with their table plan, decorations and dress, and the team help with last-minute preparations and go through the order of the day. The coordination team is on hand from the first enquiry until the couple leave for their honeymoon. The gardens are lovingly maintained and planned each year by the owner, and look beautiful at any time of year. The team agree an outline itinerary with the couple, and refine it in a planning meeting six to eight months before the wedding.
Crockwell Farm
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Facts checked 5 October 2026
Three ceremony spaces are licensed with the Northamptonshire Registrar for weddings, partnerships and naming ceremonies. The Vaulted Barn is the original Crockwell ceremony space, with oak beams, high ceilings and candlelit window alcoves, and a live video link to two HD screens on the dance floor lets additional guests watch. The Starlit Marquee is also licensed and has expansive windows onto the countryside. The Orchard Pavilion sits among the trees, with a winding aisle from the garden. Outdoor ceremonies there are only practical in good weather, the Registrar decides whether they go ahead, and there is no surcharge. A typical ceremony takes around half an hour, and couples book the Registrar themselves.
After the ceremony, drinks are served in the extensive gardens in fine weather, with an enormous walnut tree for shade. In bad weather or winter they move into the rustic bar and the oak vaulted barn. The Saddle Room Bar connects the barn, the Starlit Marquee and the Breakfast Room, and stays open until closing time, usually 12.30am. The wedding breakfast is served in the barn for smaller numbers or in the Starlit Marquee, which seats up to 200 and offers round tables with white linen or long rustic tables. The dance floor, with a star cloth light ceiling, hardwood floor and raised stage, is revealed after the meal. There is no sound limit for DJs or bands.
The immediate wedding party has exclusive use of the bedrooms in the main Farmhouse and the converted farm cottages for the night before and the night of the wedding. There are twelve rooms, including several family rooms and one fully accessible ground floor bedroom with a wet room, and with family rooms and sofa beds up to 35 guests can stay. Breakfast is included and served in the Breakfast Room. Staying guests can use the whole farmhouse, including the kitchen, dining room, sitting room and snooker room.
Ross & Ross Events provide the catering for every wedding. Menus range from fine dining to relaxed festival style feasting. Crockwell is a licensed wedding and party premises and can offer any combination of pay bar, reception drinks and table wine packages. Couples can taste the house wines at a Taster Evening, held in spring and autumn, which also shows how the venue looks dressed for an evening reception. Couples may bring their own wine for a corkage fee.
An ironstone barn restored in the early 2000s, with oak trusses and candlelit alcoves, for ceremonies of up to 90.
The vaulted barnA timber pavilion at the end of a tree-lined aisle, seating up to 200, with no outdoor surcharge.
The Orchard Pavilion
A heated marquee inside a farm building, with a separate dance floor and stage revealed after dinner.
The starlit marqueeTime to set up, a welcome supper, two breakfasts and no other wedding on the day before or after.
Three days
The Farmhouse holds seven bedrooms, from a king-size master suite with a dressing room to a bunk room and two attic rooms that share a bathroom, plus the kitchen, dining room, sitting room and snooker room.
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A self-contained cottage with a kitchen downstairs and a beamed king-size bedroom upstairs with a free-standing bath and a shower room.
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Two en-suite family bedrooms, one with a super king that splits into two singles plus a single, the other with a double and a single, over an open-plan kitchen and living room.
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A large ground-floor bedroom with a super king bed, a sitting area with a sofa bed and a walk-in wet room, close to the bar and Breakfast Room.
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A former annexe meeting room converted into a king-size bedroom with an en-suite shower and garden views, refurbished in 2026.
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Crockwell Farm is at Eydon, near Daventry, in open countryside reached by undiscovered lanes. There is plenty of free parking, and cars can be left overnight. An online Guest Area gives directions, taxi lists and local pubs, and local taxi firms and bus and coach hire companies are listed in the Resources section.
Crockwell Farm, Eydon, Daventry, Northamptonshire NN11 3QA, United Kingdom
Transfers. Local taxi firms and bus and coach hire companies are listed in the Resources section of the website.
Parking. Free on-site parking with plenty of space; cars can stay overnight.
Banbury (Chiltern Railways) is the nearest station, about 8.7 miles from the venue in a straight line.
Venue hire (the facility fee) only, for exclusive use from 2pm the day before the wedding to midday the day after. £4,000 is the lowest date price in the live availability calendar on 30 September 2026, charged on selected Monday and Tuesday dates in November, December, March and early spring (2026 to 2028). Prices rise by day and season: typical later-2027 dates run £4,000 Monday to Tuesday, £4,500 Wednesday to Thursday and £6,000 Friday to Sunday in November, with peak summer Saturdays at £11,000. Catering (Ross & Ross, from £77 per person), drinks and bedrooms are priced separately. Prices are guaranteed for two years from booking.
We’ve viewed many venues, some beautiful estate houses, and slightly more quirky options. Crockwell captured the heart of charming England. We particularly loved the farmhouse and the design of the bedrooms for our guests. We thought the option of having many different spaces to hold the wedding was ideal, and the biggest win was renting the entire complex for the weekend giving us, and our guests, exclusive use.
Crockwell Farm seats up to 200 guests for dinner.
Crockwell Farm can be taken for exclusive use, with 12 rooms included.
Weddings at Crockwell Farm start from £4,000 for venue hire.
The latest finish at Crockwell Farm is 12.30am.
The call: The registrar makes the final call on an outdoor Orchard ceremony on the day..
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