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Buckhurst Campsite

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Peaceful farm close to Hastings, three miles from Battle Abbey
Five beaches and two castles within five miles
Modern amenities including a refurbished toilet and shower block

Battle Abbey may be only three miles away, but a peaceful time is pretty much guaranteed down on this East Sussex farm a quick drive from Hastings. Whatever you insist on doing while on hol, disagreements should be discouraged by the sheer amount of attractions and activities within a few minutes of Buckhurst Campsite: smuggling adventures, two castles, the 1066 Story and five Sussex beaches are all within 10 miles; the site is among the walks, wildlife and Sussex scenery of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and – most happily – a vineyard is within walking distance. Absolutely nothing to wine about here, then… Amenities at Buckhurst Campsite are plentiful and include a refurbished toilet and shower block with hot water, a washing-up area, a shared fridge, hand basins and drinking water.

Site type

100

Open now

Please note

Under 18s must be accompanied by their parents or legal guardians.
The site does not accept breeds/crossbreeds listed in the Dangerous Dogs Act (i.e. XL Bully, Pit Bull Terrier, Japanese Tosa, Dogo Argentino, and Fila Brasileiro) and/or any of the following: Staffordshire bull terrier, American Staffordshire terrier, Rottweiler, any Mastiff or Tosa.
Dogs are not allowed if you are staying in the accommodation units.
Twin axle vehicles are not permitted on site.
Reception is unmanned after 6 p.m.. Please inform the site while on your way there should you expect to arrive after this time, so that the team can provide information about your unit/pitch.
Minimum spacing of 3 metres between pitches.
Fires, barbecues and/or firepits will not be permitted in dry, windy and/or hot weather conditions.

Languages spoken

English

Open from Tue, 1 Apr to Fri, 31 Oct 2025

Pitch types & availability

Non-electric grass and earth tent or trailer tent pitch

Max. persons unlimited

Ground type: Grass and earth

Pitch size: unlimited

Max. persons unlimited

Multiple Tent or Trailer tent allowed per pitch

Pitch size

unlimited

Ground type

Grass and earth

Suitable for

Tent, Trailer tent

Features

Car 1 included, 2 max.

Dog(s) allowed 2 included, 2 max.

Car parking by pitch/unit

Firepit

Other restrictions

Awnings not allowed

Pup tents not allowed

Extras

Bring a gazebo (1 max)		£2 (£2) per night
Extra car (1 max)		£2 (£2) per night
Trailer (1 max)		£2 (£2) per night
Travelling without a car? (1 max)		-£2 (-£2) per night

You will be able to choose extras on the booking page.

Arrival days

From £22 (£22) 1 night, 2 adults

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Reviews

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Logs for the fire are available at reception

We were able to have a fire and the fire pits were already there it made it more like camping

We had a wonderful time staying in one of the pods with…

Overall	8/10
Location	10
Value for money	6
Accommodation	8
Facilities / Activities	8
Customer service	8
Child friendliness	10
Cleanliness	10
Wifi	6

Frances C. Apr 2025

Bluebell microlodge

Liked: We had a wonderful time staying in one of the pods with our young kids (5 and 2 years old). It was the perfect setting for the kids to run freely and play all day long. The playground was very close to our pod, so our kids made friends with other kids camping and absolutely loved it.

The pod itself was very clean and well-presented. It was cold in the evenings, but we were snug and comfortable in our pod. The communal bathrooms were regularly cleaned with showers that are accessible 24/7.

There was loads to do with kids in the local area. For us a highlight was doing a 5km hike in the Hastings Country Park. It was a wonderful holiday and we highly recommend this campsite.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Friendly, calm site

Overall	10/10
Location	8
Value for money	10
Accommodation	9
Facilities / Activities	10
Customer service	8
Child friendliness	No rating
Cleanliness	10
Wifi	No rating

Anonymous May 2025

Non-electric grass touring pitch

Liked: Quiet site, clean showers and toilets, Short walk to good pub, mostly flat

Recommend to friends Visit again

Good facilities, not best pitch allocations

Overall	6/10
Location	7
Value for money	9
Accommodation	8
Facilities / Activities	9
Customer service	8
Child friendliness	7
Cleanliness	8
Wifi	9

Daryl P. May 2025

Non-electric grass and earth tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked: Good toilets and shower facilities

Disliked: Allowed far too many people into site
Was extremely noisy with a group 20 plus large partying all night
Top of campsite had a strange sewage smell

Recommend to friends Visit again

Lovely place, clean facilities and handy shop. Allowed fires and BBQS. Dog…

Overall	6/10
Location	9
Value for money	8
Accommodation	9
Facilities / Activities	9
Customer service	9
Child friendliness	3
Cleanliness	8
Wifi	No rating

Anonymous May 2025

Non-electric grass and earth tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked: Lovely place, clean facilities and handy shop. Allowed fires and BBQS. Dog friendly. Great play area for kids. Really close to Battle Abbey.

Disliked: Allows large groups - night one we were kept awake until 3am and second night until midnight. People driving around the campsite field with kids steering while other children playing. Also people speeding up and down the field driving to the shower block!! Great to have a site which is quite free and easy, but actually felt quite nervous about safety at this site due to the above. There could so easily have been an awful accident. There didn’t seem to be any rules or staff on site other than shop opening times. Unfortunately I wouldn’t book here again with my little one for this reason.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Great basic campsite but lack of respect from others let it down

Overall	7/10
Location	10
Value for money	10
Accommodation	10
Facilities / Activities	10
Customer service	7
Child friendliness	10
Cleanliness	8
Wifi	No rating

Anonymous May 2025

Non-electric grass and earth tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked: Location, shower and toilet facilities
Friendly atmosphere

Disliked: There seemed to be no enforcement of noise curfew so both nights I was kept awake (or woken at 2am) by large groups

Recommend to friends Visit again

Great campsite offering basic facilities

Overall	9/10
Location	8
Value for money	8
Accommodation	8
Facilities / Activities	8
Customer service	8
Child friendliness	7
Cleanliness	8
Wifi	No rating

Anonymous May 2025

Non-electric grass and earth tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked: Clean and comfortable facilities (toilets/showers in a small outhouse)
Lots of space between campers
Convenient location for seaside and town
Bought wood/kindling set at reasonable price

Disliked: Near a road so could hear cars driving fast along it
No nice footpaths directly from the site
shame they don’t offer fire pits

Recommend to friends Visit again

Lovely camp site. We will return.

Overall	8/10
Location	8
Value for money	10
Accommodation	10
Facilities / Activities	8
Customer service	10
Child friendliness	10
Cleanliness	10
Wifi	2

Wendy T. May 2025

Non-electric grass touring pitch

Liked: Peaceful, clean facilities, reasonably priced.
Beautiful countryside views from site.
Allow campfires. Pick your own pitch up spot.

Disliked: Sad to see scorch marks in field. Not the sites fault but maybe include a rule that all fires must be off the ground.
A noisy group of teenagers may have disturbed some campers. We were far away not to be bothered.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Lovely big open space, no crowding, loads of privacy as tents only…

Overall	8/10
Location	8
Value for money	8
Accommodation	8
Facilities / Activities	6
Customer service	6
Child friendliness	10
Cleanliness	8
Wifi	No rating

Anonymous May 2025

Non-electric grass and earth tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked: Lovely big open space, no crowding, loads of privacy as tents only pitched round the outside of the field. Plus- horses in the next field!

Disliked: Pitch wasn’t too even (hill); sinks in washing up area weren’t very clean; other than that, very nice and we enjoyed ourselves a lot :)

Recommend to friends Visit again

Nice site. Clean. Very clean washing/toilet facilities.…

Overall	10/10
Location	10
Value for money	10
Accommodation	10
Facilities / Activities	10
Customer service	10
Child friendliness	10
Cleanliness	10
Wifi	2

Anonymous May 2025

Non-electric grass and earth tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked: Nice site. Clean. Very clean washing/toilet facilities.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Big open space, not too crowded. Toilets and showers clean and pretty!…

Overall	10/10
Location	10
Value for money	8
Accommodation	8
Facilities / Activities	8
Customer service	10
Child friendliness	10
Cleanliness	8
Wifi	10

Anonymous May 2025

Non-electric grass and earth tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked: Big open space, not too crowded. Toilets and showers clean and pretty! Small shop on site where we could purchase firewood for camp fire…bonus! Friendly staff.

Disliked: I booked this site on the basis of having a wonderful view of fields in the distance as shown in one of the photos. However this could only be seen in the washing up/sink area. The sinks were not particularly clean and no hot water.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Clean facilities and friendly staff.

Overall	8/10
Location	10
Value for money	8
Accommodation	8
Facilities / Activities	8
Customer service	8
Child friendliness	8
Cleanliness	8
Wifi	2

Anonymous May 2025

Non-electric grass and earth tent or trailer tent pitch

Liked: Great location to explore local area.

Disliked: The uneven ground.

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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

Baby-changing facilities Bath available Car parking by pitch/unit Composting toilet Dog park Drying room Food shop Free wifi Ice pack freezing Internet access Launderette 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 Single-sex groups welcome Student groups welcome

Rules

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

Themes

Luxury Peaceful Walkers' paradise

Utilities

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

Nearby amenities

Bar nearby Dog walk nearby Public transport nearby Shop nearby

Type

Farm Large (51-200 pitches)

Nearby leisure

Fishing nearby Golf nearby Horse riding nearby Indoor pool nearby Leisure/theme park nearby Restaurant nearby Watersports nearby

Location

Buckhurst Campsite

Bluemans Lane

Sedlescombe

East Sussex

England

TN33 0SE

Directions

Timezone

Europe/London BST (GMT+01:00)

GPS

50.91204°N
0.54848°W

Route directions

The site entrance is next to Woodman's Rest.

Nearest transport

Coach

1.6 mi Sainsbury's

2.7 mi Abbey

Rail

2.3 mi Battle Rail Station

2.6 mi Crowhurst Rail Station

2.7 mi Doleham Rail Station

Ferry

23.2 mi Newhaven Harbour Ferry Terminal

27.9 mi Folkestone Eurotunnel Terminal

Airport

17.1 mi Lydd London Ashford 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

Battlefield boffins have the history and highlights of 1066 and all that a couple of minutes’ drive away at Battle Abbey and Battlefield, site of the famous showdown between King Harold and William the Conqueror (there’s a clue there as to who won). The heady fare here – including visitor centre with CGI re-enactment, events and the abbey itself – should entice all ages; if this fires up the kids’ historical imaginations, another 1066 experience is at nearby Hastings Castle (both recommended). Reach Hastings Castle via one of the two cliff railways, West Hill and East Hill Lifts, and do remember to look down; East Hill Lifts is the steepest funicular railway in the country and has smashing views over Hastings Country Park where it ends up. Kids castled out? Hastings has heaps of other family things to do: start off at the seafront’s Hastings Miniature Railway, which runs to old fishing village Rock-a-Nore where you can pick up some local seafood, dive into the exhibits of the Fishermen’s Village or take a boat out to land your own scaly specimens. The famous Hastings Fishmarket, where most of the Hastings’s daily catch is sold after being landed at The Stade, is on Rock-a-nore Road, the town’s shingle beach which has been a maritime centre for over a millennia and which now has the biggest beachside fishing fleet in Europe. Check out the area’s tales at the Shipwreck Museum and at the Lifeboat Station and Visitors’ Centre, or take a boat trip out to find your own deep sea wreck. If your history interests – or more likely, the kids’ – tend towards the more nefarious, a big local treasure is St Clements Caves back on West Hill, which tells the tales of the area’s smuggling exploits via Hairy Jack and the team. At White Rock Gardens in the town, Clambers Play Centre has huge indoor and outdoor play areas for all ages and picnic tables, café and free parking; while retail therapy can be had at the Priory Meadow Shopping Centre near Hastings’s seafront. Walks through 1066 Country and the High Wealds AONB are also easily accessible, as are Sussex beaches; a golf course at Battle and a golf school in Rother and stacks of other Sussex highlights such as sweet English vineyards, theme parks, watersports and cycling the Sussex Downs.

Water quality at nearby bathing waters

Name	Distance	Type	2020	2019	2018	2017
St Leonards	4.3 mi	Sea	N/A	Excellent	Excellent	Excellent
Hastings Pelham Beach	4.4 mi	Sea	N/A	N/A	N/A	Good
Bexhill	6.2 mi	Sea	N/A	N/A	N/A	Good
Winchelsea	7.4 mi	Sea	N/A	Excellent	Excellent	Excellent
Norman`S Bay	9.4 mi	Sea	N/A	Good	Good	Excellent

Data source: European Environment Agency

Must see

1066 Battle Abbey and Battlefield 2.7 mi

Hastings Castle and 1066 Story 4.2 mi

A Smugglers Adventure at St Clements Caves 4.2 mi

Bodiam Castle 5.5 mi

Great Dixter House and Gardens 6.3 mi

National Trust

Bodiam Castle 6.2 mi

Lamb House 8.4 mi

Bateman's 9.1 mi

Smallhythe Place 10.9 mi

Sissinghurst Castle Garden 13.6 mi

Cycle routes

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

Other

1066 Walk: Battle to Bexhill 2.7 mi

Battle of Hastings, 1066 2.7 mi

BATTLE ABBEY 2.8 mi

FORE WOOD (CURRENT BOUNDARY FROM 22/07/1976) 3 mi

ALEXANDRA PARK 3.3 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.

Policies

Booking terms and conditions

Admission

Admission is only permitted after registering at reception.
Under 18s must be accompanied by their parents or legal guardians.

Arrivals and departures

Late arrivals must notify the park as soon as possible. Your booking will be held for 24 hours. After this period the management reserves the right to relet your unit.
No refunds/discounts for inclement weather, late arrivals or early departures.

Dogs

Dogs are not allowed if you are staying in the accommodation units.
Dogs must be kept on leads and supervised at all times.
The site does not accept breeds/crossbreeds listed in the Dangerous Dogs Act (i.e. XL Bully, Pit Bull Terrier, Japanese Tosa, Dogo Argentino, and Fila Brasileiro) and/or any of the following: Staffordshire bull terrier, American Staffordshire terrier, Rottweiler, any Mastiff or Tosa.

General

In the event of a complaint, please speak to reception immediately. Complaints which are not brought to the management's attention during your stay cannot be dealt with once you have left the site.
Quiet hours must be respected between 11 p.m. and 9 a.m..
Radio, music and TV players must be kept at a low volume. Car doors and boots must be closed quietly.
Recreational vehicles such as motorised scooters or quad bikes are not permitted.
The management reserves the right to deny access or terminate the stay of those guests whose behaviour is deemed unsuitable. No refunds will be offered.

Hired accommodation

Hired accommodation: £50.00 damage/cleanliness/bracelet deposit is required on arrival and will be refunded on departure after inspection of your unit should no damage/losses be found.
The damage/cleanliness/bracelet deposit required on arrival can only be paid for in cash.
Your unit must be left clean and tidy; a fine of £50.00 will be charged for unclean units upon departure.

Pitches

Minimum spacing of 3 metres between pitches.

Reception

Reception is unmanned after 6 p.m.. Please inform the site while on your way there should you expect to arrive after this time, so that the team can provide information about your unit/pitch.

Safety

Barbecues are permitted but must be raised off the ground and attended by an adult at all times.
Firearms are not permitted.
Fires, barbecues and/or firepits will not be permitted in dry, windy and/or hot weather conditions.

Vehicles

Twin axle vehicles are not permitted on site.

Visitors

Visitors must leave the premises by 5:30 p.m..
Visitors must register at reception and pay their fee.

Additional terms

The washing up area has cold water only.

Payment terms

Offers

Conditions apply - see pitch type section for details

Nearest sites

Unfortunately, we have no nearby bookable sites.

Frequently asked questions

Does Buckhurst Campsite have a swimming pool? No View all features
Is Buckhurst Campsite dog friendly? Yes View all features
What attractions are near Buckhurst Campsite? Battlefield boffins have the history and highlights of 1066 and all that a couple of minutes’ drive away at Battle Abbey and Battlefield, site of the famous showdown between King Harold and … Read more