Campsites
Looking for a great place to camp? Cath has plotted our favourite camp sites and festivals on a Google map
UK Campsites map
Real camping requires a campfire. Find the campsites that will let you have a campfire on our UK map. Plus, it includes our selection of cool and interesting campsites
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The Sexually Repressed Bees
of Plaw Hatch Farm
Bees are eunuchs in Nature’s harem. Or dutiful office workers in Nature’s office; fat and furry bachelors tormented by their more glamourous and sensual colleagues, the flowers.
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Cloud Farm campsite
Sunset at Cloud Farm confers a brief moment of well-being,
and memories of old friends from The Idler magazine.
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Tom’s Field campsite
Tom’s Field is a popular campsite on the Southern end of the Isle of Purbeck, which is not really an island so much as a hearty peninsula situated on a turn-off from the holiday traffic crawling West through Dorset. Like so many of the Cool Camping selections, Tom’s Field struggles to maintain its allure...
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Secret campsites – Dernwood Farm
Our second visit to Dernwood Farm in the heart of the Sussex Weald offered a completely different perspective to this wild campsite from our first; at the Lovewood festival we pitched beneath a pylon at the wrong end of the field. On our return, we pitched at the entrance of a glade, a patch...
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Secret campsites – Plaw Hatch Farm
Every camper longs to discover a secret site, an isolated glade they can call their very own. This is one of contradictions in the soul of camping, the desire for isolation pulls against the pleasure of community. For some, the perfect site is an empty field. For others, it is a field full of...
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Lovewood
Follow the track down into a clearing in the wood and there is a stage, a barbecue and the makings of a bonfire. On that stage, a young Amy Winehouse-lookalike in leopard-print dress, high black belt and fake tattoos is working through the hits with more precision than Amy herself can muster, these days.
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Secret sites
Yesterday I met up with the neighbours for drinks. Talk turned to summer plans and I mentioned our intention to spend the whole season camping.
The recession has introduced a natural break into my working life. I will seize the chance to live more freely, at least until the leaves turn in Autumn. On hearing...
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