Bushcraft Friendly Campsites
A list of bushcraft-friendly campsites, woods, farmers etc.

This is an ongoing list of Bushcraft friendly camping locations around the UK. Whether it be a campsite which allows fires, or a friendly farmer with woodland who doesn't mind wild camping, I will list it here with contact information.

- Cornwall
    - Woodland Valley (Laddock)

- Wales
    - Glyn Y Mul Farm (South Wales, Neath)
   - Yellow Wood Bush Camp (Welsh Border)

- Sussex
    - Blackberry Wood (West Sussex)
   - Shining Cliff Woods (East Sussex)

- Scottland
    - Scottish Woodland Cottages (Dunfermline)

Warning: When doing Bushcraft activities (like fires & woodcraft etc.)
please seek permission from the landowner first, don't just take my word that your allowed!

Glyn Y Mul Farm 'Lone Wolf' Campsite (South-Wales)

This campsite has a dedicated page to Woodland Camping. A rural campsite & working farm with some beautiful land, woodlands and rivers in South Wales. A friendly site owner (Ian).

Website:    http://home.btconnect.com/Glyn-Y-Mul-Farm/
Tel:              01639 643204 (No calls after 9pm please)
                07970 290124 (No calls after 9pm please)
Address:   Glyn Y Mul Farm, Aberdulais, Neath, West Glamorgan, SA10 8HF

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Warning: When doing Bushcraft activities (like fires & woodcraft etc.)
please seek permission from the landowner first, don't just take my word that your allowed!

Woodland Valley (Farm in Laddock, Cornwall)

A farm producing quality organic meat (wholesale), with a very nice owner (Chris) who is happy to have people camp on his land on an individual/permission granted basis, so ring and speak to him.

Website:    http://www.woodlandvalley.co.uk/
Email:       enquiries@woodlandvalley.co.uk
Tel:           01726 882268
Address:   Woodland Valley Farm, Ladock, Cornwall, UK, TR2 4PT

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Warning: When doing Bushcraft activities (like fires & woodcraft etc.)
please seek permission from the landowner first, don't just take my word that your allowed!

Blackberry Wood (Woodland / Campsite in West Sussex)

This campsite has a maximum of 20 tent pitches and camping pitches are mostly in cosy little private clearings in woodland (most glades are unsuitable for tents larger than 5m x 3m). Campfires and BBQ's are allowed! NEW!- Try our environmentally friendly campfire grills and try cooking your food over an open fire (now avaliable in glades). They have a cool website so check that out for more detailed information.

Website:    http://www.blackberrywood.com/
Tel:           01273890035
Address:   Blackberry Wood, Streat Lane, Streat, Nr Ditching, E.Sussex, BN68RS

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Girth Pioneers' Land at Shinning Cliff Woods (East Sussex)
Alderwasley, Derbys.

Shining Cliff Woods is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). Owners of land designated as an SSSI are obliged by law to follow very strict regulations controlling the use of the land. Under normal circumstances this would exclude the use of the land for camping and associated activities. Girth Pioneers has special permission from English Nature (the Government department that polices SSSI's) to allow a limited amount of camping. The camping allowed is simple camping which causes minimal damage to the environment. We ask you to abide by these rules so we can protect the ecology of the woods and continue to be allowed to give permission to camp. You must book with Site Secretary Jill Jones, contact information: West Barton Gate, Challacombe, Barnstaple, Devon. EX31 4TU.

Website:    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shining_Cliff_Woods
Tel:           01598 763485
Address:   Grith Pioneers' Land at Shining Cliff Woods, Alderwasley, Derbys, East Sussex

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Yellow Wood Bush Camp (Welsh Border)

you can just come and camp with tarp/hammock/tent and a fire for £5.00 each 24 hrs plus an extra charge for firewood (we provide this so that deadwood remains for wildlife). It's £3.00 for kids. We do not allow dogs. There are basic 'bush' camping facilities, for example, compost toilets, and watering can showers. Mains water is now available on site! We would prefer you to bring smaller tents and form a grouping around a campfire, rather than have a huge family dome tent that involves locking you away from your surroundings, plus it may be difficult to enough flat space to pitch these. There are plenty of trees to hang tarps from...! Tipis are available for hire, as are canoes and bikes.

Website:    http://www.bushcraftadventures.com/bushcamp.html
Tel:          
Email:         info@yellowwood.co.uk
Address:   Yellow Wood Bushcraft, Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire (Contact for full address)

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Warning: When doing Bushcraft activities (like fires & woodcraft etc.)
please seek permission from the landowner first, don't just take my word that your allowed!

Scottish Holiday Cottages

The Woodland: The 15 acre woods to the rear of property are completely private and for the use of our guests and their visitors only. There is a great variety of terrain, a hard wide road with leaky trees and wild flowers, rustic steps leading on to a mown area, a ruin, rides cut through a meadow with all sorts of grasses and orchids, wild strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries and brambles. A couple of rustic bridges over a stream which runs through ancient woodland, the remains of a sandstone quarry, also bluebells in spring. Deer, badgers, buzzards, owls & much more. Care must be taken at all times as there a couple of places where the water is deep. Children really need to be accompanied if leaving the garden.

Website:    http://www.woodlandcottages.co.uk/
Tel:           01383 417681
Email:         chris.barley@virgin.net
Address:   Chris Barley, 2 Dales Farm Cottage, Dunfermline, KY11 7HR

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Warning: When doing Bushcraft activities (like fires & woodcraft etc.)
please seek permission from the landowner first, don't just take my word that your allowed!

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Website:    http://www.campsite.co.uk/
Tel:          
Email:         info@campsite.co.uk
Address:   UK Address

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Warning: When doing Bushcraft activities (like fires & woodcraft etc.)
please seek permission from the landowner first, don't just take my word that your allowed!

Article Created : 20/03/2008
Last Updated : 15/04/2008

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