Whinfell Hall Farm Campsite

From £18 For 1 night, 2 adults 8.6 252 reviews
View from the site (added by manager 24 Aug 2022)
Pitches on site (added by manager 24 aug 2022)
A vw camper on paddock two (added by manager 22 sep 2014)
Lovely quiet site after a group left (added by claire_b15 18 aug 2015)

  • Secluded and peaceful base from which to explore the western lakes
  • Hot showers and hairdryers available on site
  • Dogs welcome and barbecues allowed
Off to the western lakes but want to wander lonely as a cloud instead of being there jam-packed in crowds? Have a look at Whinfell Farm Camp Site: it's secluded, medium sized and in a winning position for scouting around Cockermouth, Buttermere and the highlights of the western Lake District. Such scenic surrounds require no complex facilities and entertainments, so amenities have been kept simple but with thoughtful extra touches including hot showers and hairdryers. The washing-up room has been kitted out with a freezer and laundry facilities to ensure it's easy to keep the tribe fed and cleaned up… and well-behaved dogs are welcome to join the jaunt to the Lakes as long as they're kept on leads while on site. Whinfell also allows barbecues (not campfires, firepits or anything of that ilk, please): just remember to keep them off the ground to prevent damage to the turf. If you want to eat out, it's a leisurely 10-minute trot to the 17th-century Wheatsheaf Inn for top-notch meals as well as a tempting range of local ales; best to book before you set out, as such a setup is unsurprisingly rather popular. A decent night's sleep being a vital ingredient of a happy stay for many folk, the owners request that all guests pipe down after 10.30pm to ensure peaceful slumbers all round.

Site type

Touring caravan pitches 4
Tent pitches 26
Open now
Please note
  • Units longer than 6 metres are not allowed.
  • The charging of electric vehicles is not permitted on site.

Languages spoken

English

Open from Fri, 1 Mar to

Pitch types & availability

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would recommend this site to a friend

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Only showing reviews for the last 30 months.

Small friendly site, good price, bit untidy and run down

Overall 6/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 6
Facilities / Activities 6
Customer service 8
Child friendliness 8
Cleanliness 6
Wifi 2
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Non-electric grass tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked: - Quiet - Easy to find - owner seemed nice on the phone - shower and washing water was very hot!

Disliked: - Beer cans and other trash laying about the site - Metal on the barn roof was rattling in the wind all night (kept us awake most the night) - facility’s were rather worn down and grubby

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Very easy going campsite. Pitched wherever we wanted to. Beautiful scenery. Have…

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 8
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 6
Wifi 2
Dionne C. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Non-electric grass tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked: Very easy going campsite. Pitched wherever we wanted to. Beautiful scenery. Have the basics of what you need.

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Good stay

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 8
Wifi No rating
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked: Nice site, lots of room in pitch , everything there that is needed. We had a good 2 night stay. It was our second stay , first being 2 years ago , nice to see things improving and the fields not getting as muddy too

Disliked: It was a little bit loud on a night time with alot of chat and messing round but everyone was having fun , toilet could do with a mop or something just for the rain.

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Nice and small, secluded close to a very small town. Showers, toilet,…

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 10
Mihai M. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Non-electric grass tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked: Nice and small, secluded close to a very small town. Showers, toilet, washing room all functional and clean.

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Nice quiet campsite, local to a great dog friendly pub…

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 2
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Non-electric grass tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked: Nice quiet campsite, local to a great dog friendly pub

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Quiet and clean. Easy arrival…

Overall 8/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 8
Facilities / Activities No rating
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness No rating
Wifi No rating
katie m. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Non-electric grass tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked: Quiet and clean. Easy arrival

Disliked: the toliets could do with an upgrade

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Lovely and friendly campsite with large pitches and great views overlooking Lake…

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 8
Ian C. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked: Lovely and friendly campsite with large pitches and great views overlooking Lake district. Peaceful at night and host was friendly and helpful. Will probably visit again in the future.

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Lovely small site excellent value for money, everything you need would definatley…

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation No rating
Facilities / Activities 6
Customer service 4
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 8
Wifi 2
Ian S. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Non-electric grass tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked: Lovely small site excellent value for money, everything you need would definatley go back

Disliked: cats

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Fine, functional

Overall 8/10
Location 10
Value for money 8
Accommodation 6
Facilities / Activities 6
Customer service 8
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 6
Wifi No rating
Susie K. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass touring caravan pitch

Liked: Campsite facilities supplied for functionality, not beauty. No elsan disposal point, which is fine as long as you know to take green organic fluid instead of blue. Husband said one of the men's showers was glitchy (turned hot-cold-hot-cold), but the other was fine. The ladies shower I used was fine. Nice location below a hill, friendly owner. Out in the countryside. The facilities got muddy on wet days, but were cleaned every day. Sometimes, twice, I think. There was always soap in the dispenser and there was only one occasion when the loo roll ran out. It was quickly replenished. Basic, but fine.

Disliked: Campsite owner's bonfire bothered me until 12 hours later when I got fed up and poured water on it. He agreed not to add more to the bonfire until after we'd gone. He said he didn't expect that one to burn for so long. Think it was just a mistake, but obviously it happens sometimes.

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Beautiful location, great for exploring. Ok amenities

Overall 8/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 6
Facilities / Activities 6
Customer service 2
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 2
Wifi 2
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked: The location is just perfect!!! 15 minutes to crummock water, buttermere 20 mins, scafell 40 mins & with Keswick and whinlatter not far either we had so much to do

Disliked: The site was clear we had to call on arrival and we had great trouble reaching the site owner to let them know we had arrived. After a 4 hour drive we were apprehensive as to what to do, in the end we found a pitch ourselves and pitched up, 3 hours later our call was returned (we couldn’t leave a voicemail as the inbox was full, perhaps not the first time this has happened) Also the farm cats came into our tent and would go through our things and on our bed whilst we were sleeping!! They sneak in through your closed tent, thankfully our dogs were in a crate.

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Features

Leisure on site

Bar or club house

Cycle hire

Evening entertainment

Fishing

Fitness centre

Games room

Indoor swimming pool

Kids' club

On-site restaurant/cafe

Outdoor swimming pool

Play area

TV room

Take away

Tennis

Watersports

Amenities on site

Bath available

Car parking by pitch/unit

Composting toilet

Disabled facilities

Dog park

Drying room

Food shop

Free wifi

Ice pack freezing

Internet access

Launderette

Parent & baby washroom

Pick-up from public transport

Portable toilet

Pub toilets

Public telephone

Shower available

Toilet block

Washing-up area

Wifi

Groups welcome

D. of E. welcome

Family friendly

Motorcycle friendly

Single-sex groups welcome

Student groups welcome

Rules

Barbecue provided

Barbecues allowed

Campfires allowed

Commercial vehicles allowed

Dogs allowed

Dogs allowed all year

Themes

Peaceful

Spectacular scenery

Utilities

Charging facilities

Chemical disposal

Communal freezer

Electric car charging point(s)

Gas cylinders available

Recycling available

Renewable energy

Nearby amenities

Bar nearby

Dog walk nearby

Shop nearby

Type

Medium (26-50 pitches)

Nearby leisure

Canoeing/kayaking nearby

Climbing nearby

Cycling nearby

Fishing nearby

Mountain biking nearby

Restaurant nearby

Sailing nearby

Tennis nearby

Location

Whinfell Hall Farm Campsite

Lorton

Cockermouth

Cumbria

England

CA13 0RQ

Directions

Timezone

Europe/London GMT (GMT+00:00)

GPS

54.61656°N
-3.31764°W

Route directions

From Cockermouth, take B5289 (towards Buttermere). When in Low Lorton, follow the brown signs. If using satnav, please disregard it having turned left over Lorton Bridge, and look for the campsite finger sign directing you into Whinfell Hall Farm.

Nearest transport

Coach
3.7 mi Gallowbarrow
3.7 mi Fairfield Junior School
7.1 mi Bus Station
Rail
9.6 mi Flimby Rail Station
9.6 mi Maryport Rail Station
9.9 mi Workington Rail Station
Ferry
6.7 mi Nichol End (Derwentwater) Ferry Landing
6.8 mi Hawes End Derwentwater Ferry Landing
7 mi Low Brandelhow Derwentwater Ferry Landing

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

Local attractions

Buttermere and Loweswater are the nearest lakes to Whinfell Farm Camp Site, each with accompanying villages and circular lakeside walks. Loweswater is managed by the National Trust and has rowing boats available for hire. On land, the western lakes area is as full of things to do as its more central counterparts, with activities such as golfing, cycling, shoreline horse rides and hiking around the Roman heritage, valleys and peaks of Eskdale, Wasdale and the coastal village of Ravenglass. Also take time for an afternoon or day among the mountain bike trails and forest walks of Whinlatter, named by the Forestry Commission as England's only true mountain forest. It's one of the Super 6 mountain bike trails and has the longest purpose-built MTB track in the whole Lake District; find out more in the Whinlatter Forestry Centre. Keswick's Honister Slate Mine is the last working slate mine in England and is open to visitors who come for one of the several tours and to climb to the top of the mountain using the original miners' path. And if it's sea you want to see, the Cumbrian coastline at Allonby is about 12 miles away.

Water quality at nearby bathing waters

Name Distance Type 2020 2019 2018 2017
Allonby 11.5 mi Sea N/A Good Good Good
St Bees 14.6 mi Sea N/A Excellent Excellent Excellent
Seascale 16.8 mi Sea N/A Good Good Good
Southerness 21.1 mi Sea N/A Good Good Excellent
Sandyhills 24.3 mi Sea N/A N/A Poor Poor

Data source: European Environment Agency

Must see

Whinlatter Forest & Visitor Centre 4.7 mi

Mirehouse Historic House and Gardens 5.5 mi

Castlerigg Stone Circle 8.8 mi

Ullswater Steamers 15.8 mi

Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum 16.4 mi

National Trust

Wordsworth House and Garden 3.8 mi

Buttermere and Ennerdale 10.3 mi

Wasdale, Eskdale and Duddon 13.4 mi

Grasmere and Great Langdale 17.1 mi

Coniston and Tarn Hows 19.7 mi

Cycle routes

Find local routes on the National Cycle Network - over 12,000 miles of cycling routes.

Other

Cockermouth - River Cocker 3.6 mi

Braithwaite, Stair and Newlands Beck 5 mi

Braithwaite - Grisedale Pike - Hopegill Head - Sand Hill 5.1 mi

Buttermere - Haystacks - Red Pike - Buttermere 5.5 mi

Around Buttermere 5.5 mi

Local events

  • Kendal Calling (Thursday 1 August 2024 – Thursday 1 August 2024)

    Penrith, Cumbria 24.1 mi

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

Want to know more about camping in The Lake District and Cumbria?

  • Does Whinfell Hall Farm Campsite have a swimming pool? No View all features
  • Is Whinfell Hall Farm Campsite dog friendly? Yes View all features
  • What attractions are near Whinfell Hall Farm Campsite? Buttermere and Loweswater are the nearest lakes to Whinfell Farm Camp Site, each with accompanying villages and circular lakeside walks. Loweswater is managed by the National Trust and has rowing boats available … Read more
  • When can I check in and check out of Whinfell Hall Farm Campsite?
    Camping and touring
    Arrive:  12 p.m. –  10 p.m.
    Depart by:  11 a.m.
    Read more
  • How much does it cost to stay at Whinfell Hall Farm Campsite? From £18 (for 1 night, 2 adults) - prices may change depending on your dates and party.