Highbury Farm

Highbury Farm is located in the Lower Wye Valley on a hill above the village of Redbrook. Highbury Farm is actually located in Gloucestershire, although it should be in Gwent. (location of site on Multimap and Google Maps also Aerial View Map of the site)

HacktionLab takes place at two locations on Highbury Farm:

• The barn: for some of the workshops, meeting space, mealtimes, and evening entertainment.
• The gathering field: featuring the welcome tent, camping, compost loo and very a stunning view up the Wye Valley towards Monmouth.
• The upper field: where we have the fire space.

Highbury Farm is a vegetarian farm and the owners request that meat is not brought or cooked on site. There is an excellent pub (the Boat Inn) across the valley within walking distance that serves fine ales and ciders and also serves meat dishes for those who cannot do without.

Getting to Highbury Farm

Everyone will be responsible for organising their own transport to the location, except for being collected from Chepstow train station.

Access to Highbury Farm by vehicle is somewhat difficult as it is situated up a steep hill in the valley. Most motor vehicles should ideally be left at the bottom of the hill rather than be taken up the track. For small vehicles, carrying the minimum of passengers would help. There is a decent footpath up from the village to the farm, so leaving vehicle at bottom and walking is a good option.

There's more info on their web site at http://www.highburyfarm.freeserve.co.uk/visitingframe.htm and also here it is on the map:

• Multimap
• Google Maps

By Car

From Bristol the farm is about 30 miles, over the old Severn Bridge (M48) and then taking the A466 past Chepstow and about 13 miles up the Wye Valley. The bridge costs something like 5 pounds 30 pence for cars and 10.50 for vans.

Firstly, for those of you with satnavs, the postcode is NP25 4LX

Now the farm is on a very steep hill and the folk here are saying they would prefer people not to drive up.

So if you're driving, you'll need to park down the bottom alongside the A466 Wye Valley Road, there is a car park past the village green on the left (river) side and then walk up. To get up here, you need to follow Offa's Dyke footpath, up the hill behind the Bell Inn.

Because of this make sure you pack your stuff according to having to hike up a big hill! If you come up with you essentials first and then you can get a hand making a second trip. Any real problems or if you physically can't get up here for some reason, please ring in advance to let us know.

Any problems just ring. If you can't get through, wait a bit and try again.

By Train and bus

There are trains to Chepstow, check http://www.nationalrail.co.uk to find out times.

Then there is then a bus service (69) from Chepstow to Monmouth stopping at Redbrook village. The last bus leaving Chepstow on Friday and Saturday is at 18.10 (6.10PM) from the bus station. The new time tables were published 24/05/09 for:

• Monday to Friday: http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/Bustimes/times/069MF.HTML
• Saturday: http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/Bustimes/times/069SA.HTML
• Sunday: http://ww3.gloucestershire.gov.uk/Bustimes/times/069SU.HTML

We therefore hope to have a runner to collect people from Chepstow train station on Thursday or Friday evening, should there be a need to do so. We'll publish a number here shortly to phone.

By Bus

From Bristol catch the X14 to Chepstow, then follow the directions above for catching the 69 bus to Redbrook.