Wardle Rigg Campsite

Liked Amazing views, unspoilt suroundings. Easy access to forest trails and hiking routes. Good for cycling. Firepits allowed, bring your own wood and water take your rubbish home.

Sunsets and sunrises- dark skies.

Back to basics for those that appreciate nature. If you need external stimuli, probably best not for you.

Disliked Narrow access road with some steep hills and bends.

Avoid in a North West storm- quite exposed site.

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From the manager: We're so happy you enjoyed your stay and hope to see you here again.

There's always a downside to having the dark skies view of the stars and the clear sunsets etc, and that's having to go out of the way from towns and cities, so I fully understand where your coming from re steep hills and bends down the lanes and we are almost in the centre of the moors with Whitby just up the valley. If we could change all that we would be sadly not to be.. But we hope our kind of site is where you can go to get away from it all and enjoy nature in a peaceful setting and glad you enjoyed you enjoyed your time with us.

Liked Had to unfortunately cut my stay short due to a notification my house alarm was going off (typical) but Harry was an amazing and helpful host and I will be back to actually complete a stay in the near future.

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From the manager: That really is typical and we're gutted you couldn't stay with us but it would be great to see you back here again.

Liked Lovely and quiet campsite with the most amazing views. Exactly what me and my partner were looking for when passing by the area with our dog.
The hosts were very helpful and quick at responding.

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From the manager: We're so glad you enjoyed your stay and we hope to welcome you back here again.

Liked We had a great time. Just what we wanted. Quiet, great views, perfect for a first trip away, just me and the kids. We all loved it!!!!

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From the manager: We're so glad you all enjoyed your stay with us and we'd be delighted to welcome you back soon.

Liked Peaceful site - great views - well maintained

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From the manager: We're glad you enjoyed your stay and we hope to welcome you back soon.

Liked What a real hidden gem. Lovely spot near quiet walking and biking lanes. Perfect! We will definitely be returning.

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From the manager: We're so happy you all enjoyed your stay with us and can't wait to have you back.

Liked The location is stunning, loads of space for walks and we'll spread out pitches.
I got there about 3ish, and managed to get a spot overlooking the beautiful views.
Super friendly hosts who personally came round to meet everyone.
Toilet was immaculate.

Disliked Could do with more than 1 x toilet, but understand this was only the 2nd night of the campsite being open.

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From the manager: We're so glad you enjoyed your stay and we'd love to have you back, Thank you for the feedback, especially regarding the toilet. I do agree that the weekend of your stay was a far busier than we were expecting as we had many last minute bookings on the day. So I fully understand the need for a second toilet if its that busy again, and as you say it was only the second weekend of having people stay with us so still learning a lot. We were checking the toilet many times throughout the weekend to make sure it was clean at all times to keep up demand as well. Thank you for the pictures too and hope to see you again soon.

Liked We wanted wild camping and the site was perfect. Such an idyllic place away from everything.
Amazing views and set at the edge of the forest it was perfect for walks with the dogs.
If you want back to basics this site is perfect

Disliked Nothing to dislike about this site - it is exactly as described

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From the manager: We're so glad you found everything perfect for your stay. The cliff walk is rather spectacular isn't it. We hope to welcome you back soon.

Liked We (my 7yr old and I, on our 2nd night away with our new van after being hardened tent campers for years) arrived around 7pm and quite a few vans and tents were already occupying the mown pitches at the far end but we parked a bit further back in rough grass along the side of the hedge/forestry.

Signage was for “wild camp” but I was expecting a sign for “Wardle Rigg Campsite” so was a bit confused by that but assumed we were in the right place…we were.

Very peaceful. Lots of space to not be on top of each other or hear each other. Lots of wildlife chatter. The sunset was heavenly.

Harry (I think his name was) was absolutely lovely, very welcoming and often seen around sorting the toilet out or welcoming newcomers. He was very keen to get our feedback to improve the site. Bank transfer or cash accepted. Signal not an issue as there’s a big mast nearby (not visible).

1x Composting toilet very clean and fresh. Regularly cleaned/emptied. Just could have done with 1 more as we had to wait a few times which wasn’t an issue but if it were busier, that could be an issue. Remember to bring your lantern torch to hang on the hook behind you in the loo, as it’s pretty dark (even in the daytime) but there are lovely fairy lights inside (just not very bright).

Views of the moors are absolutely great. £10.50 for the night - perfect!

Thanks for a great stay, we’ll remember this site as our first proper night in our new van!

Good luck with the site, Amy and Belle x

Disliked (Disliked) The fact that I don’t live there!

The price has gone up to £20 already and then £40 for summer holidays and whilst it’s a lovely site, there’s nothing there to justify the price increase to £40. I couldn’t justify spending £40 on just a wild field (even for the view/peace) but would stretch to £20. The main attraction for me was the £10.50 price tag. There are plenty of other sites in similar areas that have water and showers for £40pn (not on pitch up).

You can only stay Saturday nights (for now). Could do with Friday night to not have to pack up and leave straight away and spend the day just relaxing or biking etc. 12 noon check out would have been good to just enjoy the peace a bit more and not be packing up to leave straight after breakfast.

No tap but that’s stated on pitch up so wasn’t expecting one but something to bear in mind if you’re camping here, as you need to bring ALL your water for cooking/washing up/washing/drinking etc. maybe that’s what’s coming for the 2 night minimum £40pn price in the summer? We’d struggle to manage without a tap for much longer than a night or two without having to pack up the van and drive to get more water for a family.

Feedback from my 7yr old : Could do with a mown area for kids to kick a ball around or run around without thistles and hard stalks to fall on.

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From the manager: I'm glad you enjoyed your stay and since your review I'm delighted that you wanted to come back and stay the following weekend too! All your feedback we've taken on board and are looking at ways to improve with it so thank you for letting us know.

I think you may have misread our pricing rates. It's very much £10pp/night and we have no plans to increase this rate this year. I think you may realised this on your second stay after we spoke but there's no facility to amend your own reviews once posted on Pitchup.

The reason we're are only open on weekends is due to the Council dispensation we're run under for a temporary camp site. We're very limited on how many days we can open during the year and it made sense to just be open on the Saturday evenings but I do fully understand where your coming from. We will be looking into other options in the future on how we can cater better on dates.

I also understand where your coming from mown areas for recreation but at this time of year I was worried about possibly upsetting some of the wildlife that live in the field at present and decided it was best left to them for now especially with us being a wild camping site. I hope your understand.

Thank you very much for your feedback and for staying with us and we hope to welcome you back again soon.

Liked The owners were lovely people the field is huge so plenty of space will definitely be returning we forgot logs and the owner went out of his way to bring us some. Couldn’t of been happier and would 100% recommend

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From the manager: Thanks for the kind words and no problem at all about the logs. I always try to help out where I can. Hope to see you back here,