Monitoring facility

Cockle Park

Also known as cosmos/COCLP

Cockle Park Farm is a 262 ha working farm owned by Newcastle University and located to the north of Morpeth in Northumberland. The farm links farming practice, landscape management and rural enterprise with cutting edge interdisciplinary research in agriculture. The COSMOS-UK site is located in the centre of a field that slopes gently down to the River Lyne. This area of the farm is used for growing cereals and oilseeds.