Cloughhead Farm has been in the Houghton family now for three generations.  Traditionally it was a dairy farm, and from the 1970’s it has been a hill livestock farm. We use to have about 40 beef cows and calves and about 150 breeding ewes and lambs.  With the decline in farming income it had been necessary to supplement the household income and so we both worked outside of the farm.  The devastation caused by foot and mouth disease in 2002,  (although this did not affect us directly), it brought to us a realisation that we needed to diversify and after much thought and investigation we decided to go for the B&B business and combine that with  self-catered holiday accommodation.