For parents, High Bank Nursery's selling points are clear. The first is its handy location near Darlington just off the A1, which attracts families from as far afield as Northallerton, 20-odd miles south of it.
Another attention grabber is the nursery's home: a renovated barn on a working livestock farm. As you might expect that means plenty of opportunities for animal encounters. "We have free-range chickens and the children collect eggs and feed them. At lambing time the children get to pick names for the lambs, and when the animals are in the field, they can go to the fence to see them," says manager Jennifer Thompson.
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