Bank Top Camping

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A birds'-eye view of the campsite
A birds'-eye view of the campsite
Main camping field and amenity block
Spacious pitches
The main camping field
Space to spread out
Plenty of space to play or relax
Pitches in the back field
The back field
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Main camping field and amenity block
Spacious pitches
The main camping field

  • Spacious pitches near Pickering in the North York Moors National Park
  • Whitby, Dalby Forest and Castle Howard within 35 minutes' drive
  • Small café and luxury bathrooms on site; dogs and kids welcome
On the southern edge of North York Moors National Park – and a geographically sensible choice for those intent on a hiking holiday – Bank Top Camping is a family-friendly site a 15-minute drive from Pickering. Woodland walks can be accessed directly from the site, but it’s not just the ramblers who find the location convenient: watersports enthusiasts can reach the North Sea coast in less than one hour, with places like Whitby (40 minutes’ drive) and Scarborough (50 minutes) among the top local choices. Spacious pitches sit on the edge of a large field fringed by tall, leafy trees, and they come with electric hook-ups and views over the Vale of Pickering, plus oodles of room for children to run around and play games. The kids might also enjoy making friends with the resident animals; speaking of which, while dogs are welcome guests at Bank Top Camping, they should be kept on a lead while on site. A small café sells hot drinks, locally made ice cream and a selection of home-baked goods (mmm… muffins), as well as honey produced on site by hard-working bees that you can watch at the fascinating Observation Hive. If you’re into making your own food, there’s a communal fridge freezer to store any essentials, and a sheltered washing-up area with plenty of hot water. Other facilities include a toilet block with luxury touches such as underfloor heating (blissful, on a parky Yorkshire morning), hot-water showers and hairdryers. There is also a laundry room with a washing machine and tumble dryer.

Campground type

RV & Motorhome sites 10
Tent sites 10
Caravan sites 10
Open now
Opens 1 April
Please note
  • The campground/park does not accept breeds/crossbreeds listed in the Dangerous Dogs Act (i.e. 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.
  • Group bookings of 3 or more units (e.g. tent, caravan, motorhome or accommodation hire) travelling together are not permitted via Pitchup.com.
  • No hen/stag parties permitted via Pitchup.com.
  • Commercial vehicles (vehicles used for work-related purposes, carrying goods or fare-paying passengers) and sign-written vehicles are not permitted on site.
  • At least one of the party members must be aged 16 or over.
  • A cable measuring at least 10 metres is needed for the electric hook-ups.
  • This is a quiet campground/park: no music is allowed.
  • Guests are advised to bring a good quality torch with them as parts of the campground/park are unlit.
  • If reception is closed on arrival: please contact the number provided on your booking confirmation.
  • The charging of electric vehicles is not permitted on site.
  • If selecting optional electric hook-up: 6 kWh per night is included in the price. Further usage is metered onsite at £0.40 per kWh and is payable on check-out.

Languages spoken

English

French

Open from Tue, 1 Apr to

Site types & availability

Accommodation

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2 adults
0 children
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Reviews

9.6

Overall rating from 87 Pitchup.com customers

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Peaceful

98% would recommend this campground to a friend

97% would stay here again

What customers say

Top-notch, quiet spot. Clean, roomy pitches, brilliant facilities (showers are mint!). Owners are legends, super helpful. Handy for York Moors & coast. Bit breezy on top field sometimes, showers can be touch-and-go temp-wise, but mostly brilliant. Great for a chill break.

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Beautiful site

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Louise B.

Power optional grass site

Liked We loved the location, its beautiful and so handy for picturesque Pickering. There is a brilliant forest behind the site that we loved exploring with our spaniel. The site was so family friendly and relaxed. It wasn't overwhelming and a lovely size. The showers and toilets are modern and always clean. Extra effort had gone in to make sure our two tents were next to each other. The ice cream, coffee and honey are also lovely and worth the money. Really good value site.

Disliked A little shop on site that sells basics such as milk, bread etc would have been good. We were also abit confused about checking out as didnt have any instructions and no one was around to ask as we were leaving. But these were minor and no other dislikes, its a truly wonderful place.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Beautiful surroundings warm friendly welcome great onsite facilities has everything you need…

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Heidi B.

Power optional grass site (large)

Liked Beautiful surroundings warm friendly welcome great onsite facilities has everything you need not far from Beautiful woodland walks. Great to base yourself

Disliked Nothing

Recommend to friends Visit again

Great site, quiet and friendly, cracking showers, brilliant location

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Anonymous

Power optional grass tent or campervan site (two person)

Liked 3rd visit to Bank Top. Just gets better every time. Keren and Ian are continually developing this lovely site. Extremely well maintained. Well organised and flexible shower block with ladies & gents obvz, plus disabled and a family shower room too. High quality liquid soaps in all - no dispenser nonsense. Used the ice pack freezer in the laundry for the first time on this trip too. Very thoughtful. Covered yet airy dishwash area and always a sponge and washup liquid laid on for all to use.

The “top field” for tents and campervans is level and easy to pitch in. Great views to south. The upside of no lighting is proper dark skies BUT remember your torch!

Coffees and ice creams from the reception barn are a welcome luxury and the team were also kind enough to receive my recipe box food delivery the day after I arrived.

Brilliant base to explore the North York Moors by foot, bike, car or even steam train.

So flexible about so much. Keep up the great work guys!

Disliked Disappointed that some other guests don’t seem to have flagged issues at the time, leaving it until their review to criticise. Please don’t read too much into those. This is one of the best sites I pitch at.

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Lisa S.

Power optional grass caravan site

Liked Nothing

Disliked Facilities were not luxurious as stated, had to keep pushing the button for water in the showers, no temperature control, nearly got scolded, hair dryer in the disabled toilet, was broken, the tube was literally hanging out of the bottom of the hairdryer. We couldn't wait to get off this site

Recommend to friends Visit again

From the manager: I am sorry that you did not enjoy your stay. The push type showers are a campsite standard and the majority of people comment positively about the hot water temperature and the quality of the facilities. Had I been made aware of the broken hairdryer tube, it would have been repaired/changed immediately… you just needed to tell me!

5 star campsite.

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kevin t.

Power optional grass caravan site

Liked What a fantastic campsite, facilities were clean and excellent.
We stayed for 3 nights and each evening was quiet and relaxing.
The site offered eggs and ice cream which I didn’t take advantage of but it was great to have the choice.

Disliked There is nothing I could fault, but if I had to name one, there was an hour one evening of annoying midges.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Lovely quiet site with very clean facilities. Owner couldn't do enough

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Chris J.

Power optional grass tent or campervan site (two person)

Liked Quietness .cleanliness. location.owner

Disliked Nothing

Recommend to friends Visit again

Excellent site.

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Anonymous

Power optional grass site

Liked Everything. A very well run site. Loved the cafe especially, a nice touch. After a long day out rather than setting up our camping stove again we had a couple of teas and some crisps. Very clean toilets,showers and washing up area. Lovely grounds. Owner very helpful and friendly

Recommend to friends Visit again

Brilliant base to relax and explore the Moors and Coast.

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Martin A.

Power optional grass site

Liked Welcomed by owner and shown to our spacious level pitch with an explanation of facilities and locations for various services. The loos/shower blocks were very clean and well kept as were the rooms for washing and site fridge/freezers. The owner also has a little shop to buy coffee's, ice creams etc if you fancied - oh yes the ice creams were lovely after one of our walks. The site is well placed for visiting the Yorkshire Moors national park. Only 5 miles from Pickering and within 30 minutes or so of the coast - Scarborough and Whitby being the closest towns. Easy to get out to Cropton and Dalby Forests and the NYM Railway from Pickering on the steam trains is 15mins away. (Yes you can hear the steam train whistle occasionally - fabulous..) If you like a spacious well kept and managed site which is quiet and relaxing give this place a try, you may just like it as much as we did. If you like loud music and partying until the wee small hours - its probably not going to be your first choice. I have only positive things to say about our stay - I would highly recommend a visit and we shall return.

Disliked Nothing springs to mind.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Lovely site, very peaceful. Clean shower block

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Alison B.

Power optional grass caravan site

Liked The setting and the relaxed site . Lovely clean hot showers.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Nice clean site with good facilities

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Anonymous

Power optional grass site

Liked Nice big pitch and not to crowded lovely clean toilets and showers very peaceful in remote location very helpful owner

Disliked Top field very windy open to elements but not sites fault more shelter in bottom field

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Features

Dogs 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 Composting toilet Dog park Drying room Food shop Free wifi Ice pack freezing Internet access Laundry 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

Budget/backpacker Bush Peaceful Remote location Spectacular scenery Walkers' paradise Wildlife haven

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 Dog walk nearby

Type

Medium (26-50 sites)

Accessibility

Accessible parking at site Bathrooms: Large spacious shower Bathrooms: Large spacious toilet Bathrooms: Step-free access Bathrooms: Wheelchair accessible shower Bathrooms: Wheelchair accessible toilet Site close to accessible bathrooms

Nearby leisure

Cycle hire nearby Cycling nearby Horse riding nearby Leisure/theme park nearby Mountain biking nearby

Location

Bank Top Camping

Rawcliffe Bank Top Farm

Newton on Rawcliffe

Pickering

North Yorkshire

England

YO18 8QF

Directions

Timezone

Europe/London +0100 (GMT+01:00)

GPS

54.30905°N
0.77528°W

Route directions

What3words location: snows.cackling.enabling. Look out for the green sign at the turning into the campsite. From Pickering, take the road up through Newton-on-Rawcliffe. At the postcode, continue up the hill for half a mile and then turn left towards Cropton. The site is the first set of buildings on the right-hand side. From Cropton, the site is three miles away (in the direction of Stape). It is on the left-hand side, one kilometre short of the postcode.

Nearest transport

Coach
7.3 km The Royal Oak
21.4 km Sunday School
21.4 km Playing Fields
Rail
14.3 km Egton Rail Station
14.5 km Grosmont Rail Station
14.6 km Glaisdale Rail Station
Ferry
42.4 km Transporter Bridge South Side
42.5 km Transporter Bridge North Side
Airport
48.3 km Durham Tees Valley 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

Reward the kids for not complaining (much) during your hikes through the moors by taking them to Flamingo Land Resort (20 minutes’ drive), with thrill rides and family-friendly attractions, plus a zoo with big cats, primates and farmyard animals. Or head to Dalby Forest (25 minutes), where a Go Ape park has treetop adventure courses for all ages. A spectacular country mansion in the equally spectacular setting of the Howardian Hills National Landscape, Castle Howard (35 minutes) might look familiar from TV dramas such as ‘Bridgerton’ and ‘Victoria’. Elegant interiors include the Chapel, with its opulent pre-Raphaelite decoration by the likes of William Morris. Stroll around the harbour at Whitby (40 minutes), grabbing fish and chips or embarking on a coastal cruise to see seals and (if you’re lucky) dolphins. Back on dry land, climb the 199 Steps leading to the atmospheric ruins of Whitby Abbey, which are said to have inspired Bram Stoker to write ‘Dracula’.

Water quality at nearby bathing waters

Name Distance Type 2020201920182017
Robin Hoods Bay 20.7 km Sea N/AExcellentGoodGood
Sandsend 22.5 km Sea N/AGoodGoodGood
Whitby 22.5 km Sea N/AExcellentExcellentExcellent
Scarborough North Bay 23.9 km Sea N/AExcellentGoodGood
Runswick Bay 24.8 km Sea N/AExcellentExcellentExcellent

Data source: European Environment Agency

Must see

Dalby Forest Visitor Centre 6.9 km

North Yorkshire Moors Railway 7 km

Flamingo Land Theme Park and Zoo 11.7 km

The Moors National Park Centre 19 km

Duncombe Park 21 km

National Trust

Bridestones, Crosscliff and Blakey Topping 8.6 km

Nunnington Hall 17.4 km

Yorkshire Coast 20.9 km

Rievaulx Terrace 22.5 km

Mount Grace Priory 35.8 km

Cycle routes

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

Other

Lockton - Stain Dale - Bride Stones - Lockton 5 km

Lockton and Levisham 5.1 km

Newtondale Halt - Killing Nab Scar 5.3 km

Hole of Horcum - Levisham Moor - Levisham 6 km

Hole of Horcum - Levisham - Lockton 6 km

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 campgrounds

Unfortunately, we have no nearby bookable campgrounds.

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Frequently asked questions

  • Does Bank Top Camping have a swimming pool? No View all features
  • Is Bank Top Camping dog friendly? No View all features
  • What attractions are near Bank Top Camping? Reward the kids for not complaining (much) during your hikes through the moors by taking them to Flamingo Land Resort (20 minutes’ drive), with thrill rides and family-friendly attractions, plus a zoo … Read more
  • When can I check in and check out of Bank Top Camping?
    Camping and caravan
    Arrive:  2 p.m. –  8 p.m.
    Depart by:  noon
    On-site accommodation
    Arrive:  2 p.m. –  8 p.m.
    Depart by:  noon
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  • How much does it cost to stay at Bank Top Camping? From $45.01 (for 1 night, 2 adults) - prices may change depending on your dates and party.