There’s a farm in Leeds with a most peculiar name which has visitors guessing.
None Go Bye Farm is a family-favourite location where you can visit to look at the animals or go inside to the shop to by their own meats and local products.
It’s a popular destination, for those venturing through Old Otley Road near Horsforth, so the name ‘None Go Bye’ sounds like an unfriendly oxymoron.
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The farm has been owned by farmer Nigel Rushwore’s family for three generations, their ownership dates all the way back to the 1950s.
Nigel, 53, said the farm name was nothing to do with his family thinking that no one would visit.
The name was in fact linked to a pub situated there, long before his family first acquired the farm.
Nigel, a father-of-four, said: “As far as I know, the road used to be called Otley Turnpike Road like 300 years ago. There used to be a pub, an inn. The story went that no one went by without calling into the pub for a drink.
“It was on the farm, just next door to where the shop is. I always asked my grandad about it and that’s where he told me it got its name from.
“When he took the farm over in mid-1950s, the tavern wouldn’t have been there for probably 100 years.”
The farm is now home to goats, prairie dogs, rhea, geese and, donkeys in the outdoor viewing area. Plus, there’s pigs, rabbits and other animals inside the barn.
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There’s the None Go Bye Farm shop, which has a butchers producing meat from the farm and sells locally sourced produce.
Shop assistant Steph Concaster, who’s worked there for 12 years, said: “The pub was supposedly the last one before you got properly into Leeds.”
The shop contains a children’s play area and there are fishing ponds located within the farm for people to visit.
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