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General
- Deliberately rustic camping field on an Oxfordshire canalside pig farm
- Farm shop with sausages, bacon, pork and eggs
- Catering trailer on site serving breakfast and lunch
If you owned a narrowboat, could there be any more crack(l)ing pastime than pulling up to a farm shop on the historic Oxford Canal to pig out on all things pork? Don’t own a narrowboat just yet? Go the whole hog regardless at The Pig Place near Banbury: the range of pig-based products – and pigs – here might make you squeal.
The Pig Place is a working smallholding and campsite next to the Oxford Canal, complete with farm shop stuffed with prime pig products such as traditional sausages, dry-cured bacon and home-produced pork, all from the farm’s rare pedigree breeds of British Lop and Oxford Sandy and Black pigs.
Buy some along with a clutch of free-range eggs for breakfast, or trot along to the catering trailer for a breakfast or/and lunch of bacon and eggs, sausages, roast pork, stuffing and apple sauce, guaranteed to leave you more pot-bellied than when you arrive. The site received a premises licence in 2017 too, so can now sell alcohol for supping on or off site.
Bring your camera to be on the tail of some smoking hot pics here: piglets regularly run around the site and there are native sheep and lambs, geese, ducks and chickens too.
The grassy camping paddock at The Pig Place sits between the livestock area and the vegetable patches – hang about near your pitch at feeding time for more snaps, or turn your gaze waterwards for photos of narrowboats drawing in to stock up at the farm shop.
Facilities at The Pig Place are basic (one portaloo and no showers), but the owners rightly say the attractions on site more than make up for it: whether casting about at the canal (just adjacent to the farm), racing piglets around the site, or seeing just how many sausages it’s possible for you to feast upon, it's very unlikely you’ll be boar-ed...
Open from 26/04/2018 to 31/10/2018
Site type
Languages spoken
✓ English
Please note
Bookings must not be for more than 6 consecutive nights.
Commercial vehicles (vehicles used for work-related purposes, carrying goods or fare-paying passengers) and sign-written vehicles are not permitted on site.
This site has no on-site shower facilities.
This is an adults-only site. Children under the age of 18 are not allowed on site.
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Max. persons: 6 x
Pitch size: unlimited
Ground type: Grass
Max. persons: 6 x
Pitch size: unlimited
Ground type: Grass
Max. persons: 6 x
Pitch size: unlimited
Ground type: Grass
Max. persons: 6 x
Pitch size: unlimited
Ground type: Grass
Reviews
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Features
Leisure on site
Bar or club house
Cycle hire
Evening entertainment
Fishing
Fitness centre
Games room
Hot tub
Indoor swimming pool
Kids' club
On-site restaurant/cafe
Outdoor swimming pool
Play area
Take away
Tennis
TV room
Watersports
Amenities on site
Bath available
Disabled facilities
Drying room
Food shop
Free wifi
Ice pack freezing
Internet access
Launderette
Local produce
Parent & baby washroom
Pick-up from public transport
Public telephone
Shower available
Toilet block
Washing-up area
Wifi
Utilities
Charging facilities
Chemical disposal
Gas cylinders available
Recycling available
Renewable energy
Rules
Adults only
Barbecues allowed
Campfires allowed
Commercial vehicles allowed
Dogs allowed
Themes
Budget/backpacker
Gastronomic delight
Peaceful
Nearby leisure
Canoeing/kayaking nearby
Fishing nearby
Golf nearby
Indoor pool nearby
Outdoor pool nearby
Restaurant nearby
Groups welcome
Family friendly
Motorcycle friendly
Rallies welcome
Single-sex groups welcome
Student groups welcome
Nearby amenities
Bar nearby
Public transport nearby
Shop nearby
Type
Farm
Small (11-25 pitches)
Location
Nearest transport
- Coach stations
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Banbury: Bus Station Bridge Street
— 4.5 miles
Caversfield: Skimmingdish La Corner Coach Stop — 8.6 miles
Bicester: Bure Place Bus Stand — 9.2 miles
- Train stations
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Kings Sutton Rail Station
— 1.1 miles
Banbury Rail Station — 4.3 miles
Heyford Rail Station — 6.0 miles
- Ferry ports
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Sharpness Old Docks
— 54.9 miles
- Airports
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London Oxford Airport
— 12.0 miles
Coventry Airport — 26.4 miles
We are six miles from Junction 10 on the M40. Pick up the A43 towards Silverstone then the B4100 for Aynho. Go through the village and continue along the B4100 past two car garages and past the turn to Kings Sutton. 200 yards past the turn is the entrance to a layby shielded from road by trees. The Pig Place entrance is within the layby.
From the other direction - take the Banbury to Oxford road, the A4260. In Adderbury, turn at the traffic lights onto the B4100, Aynho Road, past Katherine House Hospice and Banbury Golf Club. Approximately half a mile from the golf course is the entrance to the layby. The Pig Place is within the layby.
Local attractions
The Oxford Canal is the oldest mainline canal in England and has walkies all along its 77-mile towpath (borrow one of The Pig Place dogs to escort you along the route), passing some of the most scenic spots and villages in Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Warwickshire. It’s mostly easy hoofing along the whole route with few hills: carve a slice into a day trip or afternoon amble.
Pack a picnic (of bacon sarnies) and go to Banbury four miles away to tackle the modernised towpath walk from Banbury to Cropredy via the newly added glass bridge, waterworks gallery and museum spanning the canal along the way.
If you’re going south to Oxford (and if not, why not?), make time among the spires and museums to trek along the three-mile Oxford Canal Heritage from Hythe Bridge Street to Duke’s Lock on Oxford’s outskirts, or try a portion of the ten-mile part of the Oxford Canal walk to meet the Oxfordshire Way at Kirtlington.
This part of the world is also known for its motorsports, so race along to the only Formula 1 circuit in the UK at Towcester’s Silverstone 20 minutes away and roar around the track in a single seater or Ferrari – or watch how it’s actually done at a Grand Prix event.
Towcester also has a racecourse to see slightly slower competitions at its National Hunt meets between October and May, or, for a very sedate time, spectate around the Henley Royal Regatta at Henley-on-Thames every summer.
Smart shoppers have the covered markets and Westgate Shopping Centre of Oxford, the boutiques of Henley-on-Thames and the Castle Quay Shopping Centre of Banbury all nearby, but if you’re really determined to bag a bargain make for Bicester and the Bicester Village Designer Outlet less than ten miles from The Pig Place, and the Bicester Avenue Home and Garden Centre just behind it.
Historical highlights are also aplenty driving north-west from The Pig Place to mighty and medieval Warwick Castle and Stratford-upon-Avon, both easily reachable for day trips.
A day or two at dramatic Stratford-upon-Avon should be on the cards in any hol – especially if the Royal Shakespeare Company are performing Ham-let...
Must see
- Stowe Landscape Gardens (11.3 miles)
- Blenheim Palace (11.8 miles)
- Silverstone Circuit (12.1 miles)
National Trust
- Farnborough Hall (10.2 miles)
- Stowe Landscape Gardens (11.1 miles)
Cycle routes
Find local routes on the National Cycle Network - over 12,000 miles of cycling routes.
Policies
Permitted arrival/departure time
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| Arrive: | 12 p.m. – | 8 p.m. |
| Depart: | 11:30 a.m. | |
The Pig Place cancellation policy
No refunds within 30 days of arrival date.
Bookings may be transferred to another date, subject to availability.
No refunds/discounts for inclement weather, late arrivals or early departures.
If you need to cancel or amend your booking, please give as much notice as possible so that someone else has the chance to book. You may wish to buy holiday insurance for cancellations and for your property/injury whilst away.
Please note that your deposit is paid to Pitchup.com and is non-refundable.
Payment
A 15% non-refundable deposit is payable now. The Pig Place will debit the balance from your card 30 days before arrival, or if the arrival date is sooner than 30 days then the balance will be taken immediately.
You can also opt to pay the full amount at the time of your booking.
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Thank you for taking the time to leave your review. We’re delighted that you consider the environment of The Pig Place to be awesome, we work very hard to ensure that it is exactly that. Part of that hard work is ensuring that the ‘chilled out’ atmosphere is not disturbed by late arrivals. You arrived at 8pm on the Friday of August Bank Holiday weekend and overheard my side of the telephone conversation of a fellow camper who had set off late and would not be arriving until after 9pm – when it would have been dark. He would have been setting up a tent using his car headlights and causing a significant disturbance to those who had made the effort to arrive before our cut off of 8pm and were already enjoying our facilities of hot evening meal, farm shop and Trotters Bar. Yes I was stressed because he was shouting at me, but I do not see the point of having a rule if you are not prepared to enforce it. The gentleman concerned has left the 2/10 review below even though he did not stay on site :@(
I’m sorry that you thought the water had run out in the morning – had you come to speak to us we would have been able to explain that our water system is gravity fed which means that sometimes if water is being used elsewhere on site then another tap might not work for a short time. We have never run out of water (even during this summer’s 9 week dry spell). The lack of showers is due to our borehole water supply, we are not on mains and this is very clear on our PitchUp listing.