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.

Campground type

Caravan sites 70
RV & Motorhome sites 70
Tent sites 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 bachelor/bachelorette parties permitted via Pitchup.com.
  • A charge of GBP0.20 ($0.38) 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

Site types & availability

Accommodation

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Reviews

9.4

Overall rating based on 307 reviews View breakdown

Peaceful

Voted 61% of visitors View breakdown

95%

would recommend this campground to a friend

93%

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Only showing reviews for the last 30 months.

Excellent site, clean and friendly.

Overall 9/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 9
Facilities / Activities 8
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 1
Samantha A. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Unpowered grass site

Liked: Freedom of where to pitch, clean amenities and on site shop.

Disliked: Water pressure in mens showers were poor paid for 5mins of trickling water.

Recommend to friends Visit again

From the manager: Hi, Thankyou for your review we will look into the water pressure and send our apologies

Not for peak season or quiet times.

Overall 4/10
Location 8
Value for money 6
Accommodation 8
Facilities / Activities 6
Customer service 9
Child friendliness 9
Cleanliness 6
Wifi No rating
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Unpowered grass site

Liked: Great hosts, shop and on site catering

Disliked: Showers weren’t great with no changing space or dry space or ability to clean down.

No adherence to space between tents in line with fire. No marked pitches.

Advertised no groups but everyone was in a group. Site was noisy with music playing all day until 10.30 and people sat in cars With engines running for over an hour at a time.

Recommend to friends Visit again

From the manager: Ouch thats a bit harsh ! Firstly we are a family site and welcome family groups, we just dont take young groups, and therefore the open fields works really well and most people like it that way, and it works really well for us. There is the correct space between tents and no fire issue. We have a strict no music policy after 10.30pm so from your review that was adhered too, and we cannot stop people listening to music during the day whilst sat out enjoying the sunshine, with family and friends having a bbq etc, isn't that what camping is about ? Not sure about engines running but if that was a problem then why not speak with me in reception that could easily have been sorted. The showers are an adequate size with room to change.
Im sorry this wasnt the site for you.

great site clean toilets showers great stay…

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

Unpowered grass site

Liked: great site clean toilets showers great stay

Recommend to friends Visit again

Great play area and nice ,well kept pitches. Well stocked shop…

Overall 9/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 8
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 8
Wifi 3
Emily D. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Unpowered grass site

Liked: Great play area and nice ,well kept pitches. Well stocked shop

Disliked: Water pressure in showers is poor.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Amazing weekend away, clean, friendly

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

Unpowered grass site

Liked: Fantastic site for kids, they loved the play park and feeding the pigs. They also loved the Pizza van. We will be going again next year.

Recommend to friends Visit again

From the manager: Thankyou for your lovely review, we will look forward to seeing you again

Very clean and lovely site but shower shiiid be free

Overall 8/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 9
Customer service 9
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 9
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Unpowered grass site

Liked: Cleanliness and space

Disliked: View was lovely but wouldn’t out it up there as exceptional like other campsites

Recommend to friends Visit again

Excellent stay. Nice quiet campsite. Friendly staff. Would stay again

Overall 10/10
Location 8
Value for money 8
Accommodation 9
Facilities / Activities 9
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 9
Geraldine W. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Unpowered grass site

Liked: Lovely spot. Quiet. Clean showers and toilet

Recommend to friends Visit again

Great site with nice views, lovey owners and a very reasonable price!

Overall 9/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 8
Facilities / Activities 4
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 9
Wifi 4
Lucy g. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Unpowered grass site

Liked: Lovely campsite with pretty views
Clean toilets
Very friendly owners who I had a nice chat with
Extremely reasonable price

Disliked: Not a huge amount of completely level ground but it wasn’t busy so managed to pick a good pitch

Recommend to friends Visit again

lovely area, quiet and clean facilities. Play area was nice and little…

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

Unpowered grass site

Liked: lovely area, quiet and clean facilities. Play area was nice and little shop run by locals full of local produce. Midweek in May only 1 other camper.
wifi if you sit on the benches outsdie the shop. 'indoor' pot wash with hot water in the same block as the toilets.

Disliked: showers locked at 9pm and not informed at check-in. will check these things in future. Showers take coins which seems a little much when you're paying as much as other campsites near by already.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Awesome camp site!

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

Unpowered grass site

Liked: Clean friendly site, good amenities and park for the kids… perfect location near Matlock… would highly recommend

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 site/unit Composting toilet Dog park Drying room Food shop Free wifi Ice pack freezing Internet access Laundry 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 Communal freezer Communal fridge Dump point Electric car charging point(s) Gas cylinders available Recycling available Renewable energy

Nearby amenities

Bar nearby Convenience store nearby Dog walk nearby Nearby farmers' market

Type

Farm Large (51-200 sites)

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 sites

Location

Middlehills Farm Campsite

Grangemill

Matlock

Derbyshire

England

DE4 4HY

Directions

Timezone

Europe/London +0100 (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
5.4 km Fishpond Hotel
5.4 km Fishpond Hotel
6.2 km Railway Station
Rail
5.9 km Matlock Bath Rail Station
6.2 km Matlock Rail Station
6.4 km Cromford Rail Station
Airport
35.6 km Sheffield City Airport
38.5 km 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 5.4 km

Arkwright's Cromford Mills 6 km

Haddon Hall 8.9 km

Chatsworth 11.5 km

Kedleston Hall 17.8 km

National Trust

Winster Market House 2.7 km

Kedleston Hall 19 km

The Old Manor 19.4 km

Hardwick Estate: Stainsby Mill 23.1 km

Hardwick Hall 23.1 km

Cycle routes

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

Other

Winster - Uppertown - Bonsall Dale - Winster 2.5 km

Winster - The Nine Ladies - Robin Hood's Stride 2.5 km

Winster - Ible - Brassington - Aldwark - Winster 2.5 km

Winster - Robin Hood's Stride - Youlgreave - Elton 2.9 km

Brassington - Carsington - Hognaston - Kniveton - Brassington 3.2 km

Local events

  • Download Festival (Friday 13 June 2025 – Friday 13 June 2025)

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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.

Offers

Conditions apply - see site type section for details

Nearest campgrounds

Unfortunately, we have no nearby bookable campgrounds.

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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 caravan
    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 $50.27 (for 1 night, 2 adults) - prices may change depending on your dates and party.