Park Farm Campsite offers you a pitch in a field with countryside views not far from The Cotswolds. It’s part of an organic farm in the Wiltshire countryside and the camping is pretty organic too. It’s low key and close to nature with pitches, for tents and campervans, all grassy and off grid. The entertainment is campfires and starry skies and the facilities are eco friendly. But some optional extras are available to enhance your stay so it’s more back to nature than back to basics here. There’s an honesty shop with a few local goodies, freshly cooked pizzas can be delivered to your tent and there’s an on-site sauna with a cold plunge tub nearby. This is wild-ish camping with wild-ish luxury on offer as well.
On arrival, you see yourself in and are welcome to choose your pitch from the 20 or so spaces that are mown into the outskirts of the gently sloping field. Or, if you’ve chosen the site’s single furnished bell tent, follow the signs to find it. The bell tent comes with all the gear for your stay as part of the deal – and the generosity extends to camping pitches too. Each has a fire pit included. Bring your own logs or buy a campfire kit for a tenner. There are composting loos, hot water showers and an undercover washing-up space for all to share. The sauna is booked separately, ask host Zoe for details. She’s also the one to ask for local advice – though you’ll find lots of her tips in advance as she sends you a digital guidebook before you arrive.
There are walks from the farm into the surrounding Wiltshire Wildlife Trust-owned woods and meadows and plenty of suggestions for days out further afield. Lots of campers head for the nearby Cotswolds Water Park for adventure and to Malmesbury for a day in town. There’s history at the abbey there – and lots more of that at Avebury where neolithic people erected the largest stone circle in Britain. All this plus Highgrove, Tetbury and Westonbirt Arboretum are just some of the sights within a half hour drive of Park Farm.
We have a large open field, once you’re booked in you can turn up and pitch up! The field has marked pitches but you can choose where you pitch. The owners try to meet their campers at some point during their stay and are around to answer questions if needed. We have simple facilities of compost loos and gas showers. We have a small honesty shop selling local produce, eggs, apple juice and some other goodies . We sell ‘campfire kits’ for £10 which are sacks of Logs, kindling and newspaper. The site is gently sloping which areas of open flat ground some more sloping along hedge lines and under trees. We can accommodate groups of tents (not loud parties!) we have spectacular views and especially wonderful sunrises of you get up early enough!