I am in the East Midlands and on our allotment site we pay £15 for a load of well rotted farm manure delivered as near as possible to each plot. A load would be 30 plus wheel barrows I know because I had to move 2 loads last November to the bins at the top end of the plot. It took me 2 full days to move it. So £68 does seem expensive but if that's all you can get so be it. Locally I have seen signs for free horse manure just bring your own bag. The farmer who brings ours has to shift what he does not use himself somewhere so does the stables they are only glad to get shut of it. Our farmer uses the muck money to offset some of his winter feed. 2 loads will last me 3 years and by then I may be too old to barrow it.
Where there is farmland close, it is much easier to source. I'm in central-ish London, so it's a different ball game. As I have mentioned, the money we pay for manure is mostly covering the labour and petrol and time.
We do have a free supply of wood chip readily available as tree surgeons want to get it off their hands. So, it's about using whatever resources are easy and cheap/free where you are.Top soil and bricks are often going free on swap groups as people look to shift those. Whatever you can get hyper-locally, so much the better.
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