UK campsites for foodies
Pop-up glamping in Bedfordshire
Turvey Home Property in Bedfordshire is internet hosting a pop-up campsite for 3-30 August with Wild Canvas. Sleep in conventional tipis or up to date tipi tents, each of that are pitched in riverside meadows (you may deliver your personal tent, should you favor). There is a relaxed family-friendly pageant vibe, with each day yoga classes, guided paddleboarding and a child’s nature membership. On the onsite café, tuck into wood-fired pizzas, nourishing veggie bowls and BBQ dishes, accompanied by native ales and ciders. Down the river you’ll find award-winning ice cream and sorbet from Riverside Dairy for pud. wildcanvas.uk
Tenting in Devon
Westland Farm in Devon gives DIY old style tenting and glamping on a working farm, overlooking a small lake. There is a yurt (sleeps six), a shepherd’s hut (sleeps 4), and a grass-roofed drover’s hut (sleeps six) with its personal non-public sizzling tub and kitchen, full with wood-fired oven. You possibly can gather eggs straight from the hens’ nest containers, in the course of the summer season there is a small farm store run on an honesty field system, and kids are welcome to assist feed the pigs, lambs, hens and horses.
When you’d reasonably any person else did the cooking, you may pattern a few of Westland Farm’s produce at The Pyne Arms close by, which throughout lockdown ran a takeaway menu and a drive-through choice on Friday and Saturday evenings. It additionally gives a Sunday roast – starters similar to beetroot chutney and native salad leaves, adopted by BBQ pork stomach burger with smoked cheddar.
A grass pitch for 2 prices from £50 per night time, coolcamping.com
Glamping in Wales
At Fforest, a 200-acre farm in wild west Wales, you may keep over in a geodesic dome (full with wood-burning range and Japanese-style onsen bathing space), an unique Welsh crog loft, or easy ‘backyard shac’. All have non-public bathe and bathroom areas, to try to create a coronavirus-safe atmosphere. Fforest can also be residence to the smallest pub in Wales, Y Bwthyn, as soon as an previous farmworker’s cottage. Right here, you should purchase take-out beers and gins created by Fforest alongside native producers similar to Mantle Brewery in Cardigan (craft lager Cwrw Fforest); and Artful Satan in Cardiff, who helped create Fforest Haf, a hazy pale ale with a touch of mango. The Boy Ashore Gin has seaweed, coriander and cubeb (an Indonesian pepper) botanicals. Meals-wise, there is a takeaway kitchen that gives barbecued native meat and fish, in addition to wood-fired pizzas. coldatnight.co.uk
Bell tents in Sussex
Crackling campfires, stargazing and toasted marshmallows: Wowo on Wapsbourne Manor Farm specialises in old style household enjoyable. You possibly can keep over in a yurt, an unique gypsy wagon, shepherd’s hut or lotus flower-shaped bell tent. The Wowo store is full of native produce (the web site even lists the meals miles) from Paynes pure English honey (one of many hives is on the farm) to natural eggs from Grassington Farm (1.2 miles) and The Sussex Kitchen’s award-winning artisan bread (0.2 miles).
Curry Love’s pop-up tent serves a moreish menu, that includes Punjabi chole masala (chickpeas, caramelised pink pepper, onion and courgette in an fragrant tomato and onion-based curry), lentil samosas and smoky pineapple pickle. Not that hungry? Curry Love’s street-food snacks embrace loaded polenta fries and queso frito – fried halloumi sticks with smoky-sweet tamarind and maple syrup dip. wowo.co.uk
Off-grid glamping in Yorkshire
At Camp Kátur on a 250-acre woodland property in North Yorkshire, you may select to snooze in a unidome, safari tent, tipi, hobbit pod, geodome or bell tent – with not less than 10m between you and your nearest neighbour. That is glamorous off-grid glamping. The 2 geodomes, for instance, include candles, a wood-burning range, exterior barbecue, fireplace pit – and fairy lights (in addition to non-public rest room and bathe). Elective extras embrace not simply breakfast hampers, but additionally delights similar to a ‘nibbles and poo hamper’ and ‘winter hotter tipple’ (sizzling chocolate, miniature Baileys, marshmallows and dunking biscuits for 2). There’s additionally a cute, Norwegian-style BBQ cabin within the woods (reserving required). Sit in a circle across the fireplace and watch your steaks sizzle on the flames. For the final word indulgence, add on the ‘fondue dessert hamper’. campkatur.com
Glamping pods within the Lake District
Grasmere Glamping’s two bespoke ‘pods’ are on Broadrayne Farm, which dates again to the seventeenth century and can also be residence to The Yan, a bistro with bedrooms. The en suite pods have wood-burning stoves and fitted kitchens – however why cook dinner once you’ve received The Yan subsequent door, providing a sizzling takeaway service and a click-and-collect heat-at-home Sunday roast? Extra particularly, slowly braised shoulder of lamb wrapped in cured ham; or half a spatchcock hen roasted with lemon and thyme, with a white wine gravy on the facet. Takeaway choices embrace beef brisket in a ciabatta bap topped with bacon, cheddar cheese, jalapeños, mustard mayo and Yan ketchup; or the YFC (Yan Fried Rooster) with crispy fried hen breast, spicy beans, roast corn on the cob and bacon slaw. grasmereglamping.co.uk
Treehouses on a farm in Scotland
Alongside Harvest Moon Holidays’ treehouses (which sleep six), now you can keep in an eight-person seaside cabin overlooking the dune-backed Tyninghame seaside. The working arable farm that the cabin sits on has been within the Dale household for greater than 150 years, and in addition to rising crops they’ve hens (gather your personal eggs for breakfast), alpacas, goats and sheep. The welcome pack features a record of native producers, there is a farm store close by for provides, or you may head to the harbour in close by North Berwick for lobster and chips, crab, sea bass and line-caught mackerel on the Lobster Shack. harvestmoonholidays.com
