Middlehills Farm Campsite

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  • Well-kept site, family-run for over 30 years
  • Friendly and welcoming with outstanding views
  • Close to Gullivers Kingdom and 45 minutes' drive from Alton Towers
Pigs, ponies and proximity to Peak District towns… farm the family out to Middlehills Farm Campsite. This is a mellow, peaceful and very friendly park that's been run by the Lomas family for over 30 years, set in 40 acres of countryside in the Peak District National Park and a quick drive from kiddie heaven Gullivers Kingdom at Matlock Bath. (Give them an even more heavenly holiday by an additional trip to Alton Towers, about 22 miles from your pitch.) Kids should be enthusiastically entertained by the chance to pet and give treats to the Middlehills pigs and ponies, and with the positively popular play park: owners' Nick and Liz's four-legged lot are often around to make pals with, and the play area is cunningly set near the pitches for grownups to keep a beady eye on proceedings. Facilities at Middlehills Farm include a toilet and shower block (showers are subject to an extra charge, so remember to bring some coins along), two chemical waste points and two washing-up areas with a fridge-freezer each. Schedule pizza night for Friday and Saturday evenings, as this is when the site opens up its pizza van. There is also a small shop selling local produce from the farm shop in Bakewell, fresh milk and bread from the dairy and cheese from Hartington, along with snacks, basic camping equipment and briquettes and starter packs.

Site type

Touring caravan pitches 70
Motorhome pitches 70
Tent pitches 70
Lodges, cabins, pods or huts 2
Open now
Opens 2 May
Please note
  • Under 18s must be accompanied by their parents or legal guardians.
  • Group bookings of 4 or more adults are not permitted (couples and immediate family members excepted).
  • Single-sex bookings of 3 or more people (couples and immediate family members excepted) are not permitted via Pitchup.com.
  • No hen/stag parties permitted via Pitchup.com.
  • A charge of £0.20 applies for the use of the shower.
  • Dogs are not allowed if you are staying in the accommodation units.

Languages spoken

English

Open from Fri, 2 May to

Pitch types & availability

Accommodation

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2 adults
0 children

Reviews

9.4

Overall rating from 356 Pitchup.com customers

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Location
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Facilities / Activities
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Customer service
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Child friendliness
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Cleanliness
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Wifi
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Spectacular sceneryPeaceful

95% would recommend this site to a friend

94% would stay here again

What customers say

This family-friendly campsite receives consistent praise for its clean and well-maintained facilities, including toilets and showers. Visitors highlight the excellent playground, friendly staff, and the handy on-site shop. The spacious pitches and farm animals are also popular features. While occasional noise from a nearby quarry or other campers is mentioned, most reviewers found the site peaceful and well-managed, with many expressing a desire to return.

Summary AI-generated from Pitchup.com customer reviews

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Arrival date (latest first)

Very nice site with great facilities and friendly staff.

Overall

5 out of 10
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Daniel A.

Non-electric grass pitch

Liked It was a lovely campsite situated in a very nice, convenient area. The facilities were spot on with great views. It was generally very peaceful and the pizza van was a very nice addition too. The check in process was very quick and easy. It felt a safe campsite, all of the staff were extremely friendly and we would definitely return.

Disliked While the site itself was brilliant with great facilities and very friendly staff, unfortunately our experience was impacted by a noisy group pitched next to us. Despite the site’s clear policy of no single sex groups over four people and no music after 10:30pm, the group (seven young lads) played loud music and were shouting well past midnight. We reported this to the on-site security just after midnight, who did respond and spoke to them, but the noise continued. We also called reception around 12:30am, and someone did come down again, but unfortunately the disruption carried on until around 1am. It was a real shame, as it made it hard to sleep and took away from what would otherwise have been a fantastic stay.

Recommend to friends Visit again

From the manager: Hi, Thankyou for your review. This group caused us no problems at all and they were asked to turn their music off at 10.30pm which they did. You spoke to security who asked them to keep it down which again they did. You called the house and my husband went out and said all they were doing was talking, not loud, just sat round chatting so left them too it. Unfortunately we cannot ask people to not talk and be in bed by 10.30pm, and I'm sorry that they disturbed you, its very hard to please everyone and of course if they were being loud and playing music we would have stopped them but in this case that simply wasn't the case.
I do hope you return again.

Fantastic staff, great clean facilities and plenty of room to pitch up

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Danny J.

Non-electric grass pitch

Liked We absolutely loved our stay at Middlehill Farm. The site is spacious, peaceful, and extremely well maintained, with excellent, clean facilities throughout.

The onsite playground was a huge bonus — it’s brilliantly designed, well kept, and our children had a fantastic time playing there.

All the staff were incredibly friendly, approachable, and always happy to help or offer advice on places to visit nearby. The onsite shop is also really convenient and well stocked with all the essentials and tasty food items.

We couldn’t have asked for a camp site — highly recommended!

Disliked The weather, but there was nothing that could have been done about that :)

Recommend to friends Visit again

Always clean and tidy great staff very safe for young family’s

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Gareth S.

Non-electric grass pitch

Liked Perfect camping ground for all ages and experience

Disliked Can’t complain

Recommend to friends Visit again

Fantastic little place

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Rick H.

Non-electric grass pitch

Liked -Great facilities and friendly staff.
-Toilets and showers sparkling clean and a lovely little shop.
-The tent pitch area was flat and the grass was well cut and plenty of space

Disliked A lot of wasps which was really annoying

Recommend to friends Visit again

Can't fault the place or the people running it

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Shirley K.

Non-electric grass pitch

Liked We loved the place completely. The toilets, put washing area and showers were lovely and clean there is a fridge freezer in pot wash room
there is a lovely little shop stocked with things you might forget right up to your airbed! We went no ehu but brought my electric air beds with me, they blew them up at the shop then deflated them without any fuss!
There is a lovely playground for the kiddies and plenty of room for everyone
There are farm animals around and some lovely walks, the camping fields are very well kept and the owners are very friendly and the couple that run the shop are really lovely people

Disliked The blooming wasps! We went into Matlock bath and they were suffering from them too!
The camp does have traps up everywhere but there just no stopping them!
It must be a side effect of the heat wave

Recommend to friends Visit again

Loved it

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Anonymous

Non-electric grass pitch

Liked Easy, clean, safe and fun

Recommend to friends Visit again

Nice family camping

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Anonymous

Non-electric grass pitch

Liked Big tent pitches, clean toilets and showers, big playground for children. There is a camp shop, ice creams and they made fresh pizza on afternoon. It is nice place to have brake and spend time with family.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Great family friendly site with clean facilities and friendly staff

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Anonymous

Non-electric grass pitch

Liked A great family friendly campsite. I haven't been camping in years, and it was my youngest sons first time in a tent and we both loved it. Facilities were great, he loved the play park and the pizza was delicious.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Great site with lots going on

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Anonymous

Non-electric grass pitch

Liked Great location, useful with a shop on site and toilets were always clean

Disliked It was quite a busy site, not a complaint just something to be aware of if you’re looking for a quiet getaway!

Recommend to friends Visit again

Excellent site. Relaxed, friendly, welcoming.

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Verity S.

Non-electric grass pitch

Liked Large unrestricted pitch sizes. Friendly welcoming and accommodating staff. Well stocked shop. Views. Children’s play area. Great location. Plenty of facilities.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Features

Dogs allowed

Campfires allowed

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 Dog park Drying room Food shop Free wifi Ice pack freezing Internet access Launderette Local produce Parent & baby washroom Pick-up from public transport Picnic table Portable toilet Pub toilets Public telephone Shower available Toilet block Washing-up area Wifi

Groups welcome

D. of E. welcome Family friendly Motorcycle friendly Rallies welcome Single-sex groups welcome Student groups welcome

Rules

Barbecue provided Barbecues allowed Campfires allowed Commercial vehicles allowed Dogs allowed Dogs allowed all year

Themes

Remote location Spectacular scenery

Utilities

Charging facilities Chemical disposal Communal freezer Communal fridge Electric car charging point(s) Gas cylinders available Recycling available Renewable energy

Nearby amenities

Bar nearby Dog walk nearby Nearby farmers' market Shop nearby

Type

Farm Large (51-200 pitches)

Nearby leisure

Canoeing/kayaking nearby Climbing nearby Cycle hire nearby Cycling nearby Fishing nearby Golf nearby Horse riding nearby Indoor pool nearby Leisure/theme park nearby Mountain biking nearby Outdoor pool nearby Restaurant nearby Sailing nearby Tennis nearby Watersports nearby

Touring and motorhomes

Seasonal pitches

Location

Middlehills Farm Campsite

Grangemill

Matlock

Derbyshire

England

DE4 4HY

Directions

Timezone

Europe/London BST (GMT+01:00)

GPS

53.11656°N
1.64386°W

Route directions

From Junction 28 of the M1, take the A38, heading for Ripley, then turn onto the A610 heading to Ambergate (you can follow the signs to Gullivers Kingdom). Turn right onto the A6 to Cromford, turn left into Cromford, then right onto the A5012 for approximately 4 miles. You will arrive at a T-junction with the Hollybush pub on your right. Keep straight on for 400 yards and you will see a sign on your left for Middlehills Farm. Turn left over the cattle grid and up the drive. You have arrived.

Nearest transport

Coach
3.4 mi Fishpond Hotel
3.4 mi Fishpond Hotel
3.9 mi Railway Station
Rail
3.6 mi Matlock Bath Rail Station
3.8 mi Matlock Rail Station
3.9 mi Cromford Rail Station
Airport
22.1 mi Sheffield City Airport
23.9 mi East Midlands Airport

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

After you've taken the kids around Gullivers Kingdom and Alton Towers (that'll be the first three or four days of the holiday sorted), set aside some time for the grand halls and houses in the region, which should be seen firstly because they're fab, and secondly because these days out will be a sedate difference to white-knuckled days out at local theme parks. The knowledgeable team at Middlehills Farm insist that Chatsworth House is a must, and so should you say too, for spectacular gardens even the kids will go gaga for, a decent play area and a farm park for more petting. Bonus: the surrounding 1000-acre park is free to roam around all year round. Nearby Haddon Hall just outside Bakewell is also a sweet treat: film fans and goggleboxers might recognise its setting from the likes of Jane Eyre, Elizabeth and The Princess Bride (the gardens here are pretty splendid too). To tramp around old towns, Matlock, Buxton, Bakewell and Ashbourne are all within easy driving distance of Middlehills Farm – Peak District eats and other souvenirs should be picked up in each. The farm team has plenty more info on the local area in the site reception, but also quickly recommended are walks and watersports around/on nearby Carsington Water, and examining the caves and caverns of the Heights of Abraham from a cable car at High Tor.

Must see

Sir Richard Arkwright's Masson Mills 3.4 mi

Arkwright's Cromford Mills 3.7 mi

Haddon Hall 5.5 mi

Chatsworth 7.2 mi

Kedleston Hall 11.1 mi

National Trust

Winster Market House 1.7 mi

Kedleston Hall 11.8 mi

The Old Manor 12.1 mi

Hardwick Estate: Stainsby Mill 14.3 mi

Hardwick Hall 14.3 mi

Cycle routes

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

Other

Winster - Uppertown - Bonsall Dale - Winster 1.6 mi

Winster - The Nine Ladies - Robin Hood's Stride 1.6 mi

Winster - Ible - Brassington - Aldwark - Winster 1.6 mi

Winster - Robin Hood's Stride - Youlgreave - Elton 1.8 mi

Brassington - Carsington - Hognaston - Kniveton - Brassington 2 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.

Nearest sites

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Frequently asked questions

  • Does Middlehills Farm Campsite have a swimming pool? No View all features
  • Is Middlehills Farm Campsite dog friendly? Yes View all features
  • What attractions are near Middlehills Farm Campsite? After you've taken the kids around Gullivers Kingdom and Alton Towers (that'll be the first three or four days of the holiday sorted), set aside some time for the grand halls and … Read more
  • When can I check in and check out of Middlehills Farm Campsite?
    Camping and touring
    Arrive:  10 a.m. –  6 p.m.
    Depart by:  11 a.m.
    On-site accommodation
    Arrive:  10 a.m. –  6 p.m.
    Depart by:  11 a.m.

    Check-in is available until 8pm on Fridays.

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  • How much does it cost to stay at Middlehills Farm Campsite? From £24 (for 1 night, 2 adults) - prices may change depending on your dates and party.