Nether Hall Farm

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Tent pitched at Nether Hall Farm
Tent pitched at nether hall farm
Badger sett hut
Tent and gazebo
Pitches can accommodate large tents
Six-man tent on site
Plenty of space
Picnic bench
River views
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Badger sett hut
Tent and gazebo
Pitches can accommodate large tents

  • Peaceful camping with views of the river Stour in coastal Suffolk
  • Alton Water Sports Centre and Suffolk Ski Centre 15 minutes’ drive
  • Small, off-grid site with direct access to Harkstead river beach
How about camping among spruce and fir trees on a tiny, woodland site? In a peaceful spot overlooking the river Stour? And what’s even better is that Nether Hall Farm has – wait for it – direct access to Harkstead river beach via a private track for lots of family fun splashing about in the water. (Water access is tide dependent, so keep an eye on the tide times posted on site.) Add in the miles of local footpaths to explore in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, plus the spectacular views of Shotley Peninsula, and this is one fab off-grid camping spot on a working arable farm. If you go about your daily life quietly on site, you might get to spot song birds, birds of prey, owls, hares and deer. Firepits are provided, and the site owners have logs available for purchase. There’s also a gas-powered shower (great for warming up after days on the beach) and composting loos. Harkstead (five minutes’ drive) has a kids’ play area on the village green, while Shotley (10 minutes) has several inns and restaurants and handy stores for bits and pieces. You can catch the foot ferry from the marina here to Harwich and Felixstowe – or you might prefer to drop in at Shotley Vineyard (15 minutes) to sample a few English wines. More amenities – including great family pubs – can be found in the local villages of Holbrook (five minutes), Stutton and Chelmondiston (both 10 minutes).

Site type

Tent sites 8
Lodges, cabins, pods or huts 2
Open all year
Opens
Please note
  • Under 18s must be accompanied by their parents or legal guardians.
  • No bachelor/bachelorette parties permitted via Pitchup.com.
  • The park caters for families (immediate members) and couples only - bookings from all other forms of groups are not accepted.
  • At least one of the party members must be aged 25 or over.
  • This is a quiet park: no music is allowed.
  • Please note that the toilet/shower facilities are unisex.
  • There is no reception building on-site: on arrival please contact the number provided on your booking confirmation.

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Reviews

9.9

Overall rating from 192 Pitchup.com customers

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Peaceful

99% would recommend this site to a friend

98% would stay here again

What customers say

Highly recommended for peace & privacy. Spacious, secluded pitches with water, picnic tables & fire pits. Enjoy the nearby river beach for swimming/kayaking & wildlife spotting. Clean facilities, but some pitches bumpy & showers sometimes cool.

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Arrival date (latest first)

Excellent site, friendly staff good facilities

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Sarah G.

Primitive grass and earth tent campsite (woodland)

Liked Great location over looking the stour estuary. The camp site is well layed out and maintained.
Large pich areas, benches water taps and fire pits on each pitch.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Recommended especially for a short stay

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Emma H.

Primitive grass and earth tent campsite (woodland)

Liked Beautiful site with lovely sheltered pitches, felt like we were camping in a pine forest. Lovely walk down to the river beach, great fire pits. Absolutely loved our stay

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Fab location!

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Wendy Nina B.

Primitive grass and earth tent campsite (woodland)

Liked Everything! We have been coming here every year for a while now. Beautiful surroundings, nice and quiet. Perfect for a relaxing break with the kids, who also love it here. We especially enjoyed Matilda's cake shack in the village! Hopefully the pub will be open again for our next visit. Really friendly and helpful owners too!

Disliked Absolutely nothing.

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Highly recommend

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James W.

Primitive grass and earth tent campsite (woodland)

Liked Wonderful gem of a campsite, each pitch has its own little clearing amongst the trees, feels very secluded and means you don’t/rarely see the other campers. Each pitch has its own water tap, table and fire pit - very convenient and the fire pit is a great touch and fantastic to sit around at night (plus reasonably priced logs available to buy on-site too). Owner is very friendly & polite, the Eco-toilets are surprisingly clean/odourless and well looked after. The campsite is surrounded by beautiful, quiet countryside far away from any habitation and a few mins walk down a private track to the river beach/shoreline, all making this a magical camping experience. Definitely coming back here again!

Recommend to friends Visit again

Excellent campsite, we hope to return!

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angie b.

Primitive grass and earth tent campsite (woodland)

Liked Location of site - not so difficult to get to but it felt wonderfully remote

Simplicity and size - everything worked well, we were hardly aware of other people due to spaciousness and care taken in layout

Blackberry heaven!

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Highly recommended

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Clare G.

Primitive grass and earth tent campsite (woodland)

Liked A wonderful setting on the estuary with large, secluded, open woodland pitches, each with its own tap. Not a campsite with lots of silly and fiddly rules. Really easy going and relaxing in a beautiful place 💕

Recommend to friends Visit again

Great spot and will be back again soon.

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Anonymous

Primitive grass and earth tent campsite (woodland)

Liked Small number of pitches in amongst the trees and the glorious views of the river

Disliked N/A

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Beautifully laid out pitches in separate…

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Sarah H.

Primitive grass and earth tent campsite (woodland)

Liked Beautifully laid out pitches in separate spaces surrounded by firs and blackberries with a tap and fire pit each. Simple and good toilets and shower. Lovely walk to river. Tranquil and peaceful.

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Hidden gem

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Mark B.

Primitive grass and earth tent campsite (woodland)

Liked Hidden gem!!
Absolutely beautiful site. So private and generally peaceful. A stones throw from the river beach where we enjoyed some time on the water paddleboarding. The lay out of the pitches are very private and offered a huge amount of space to set up our little home from home.

Dark sky area with the Milky Way visable. The wildlife was plentiful with owls, foxes, hares and wild geese. A beautiful area to reconnect with nature and be at one with the earth.

We shall definitely be returning with our grandchildren next year.

Thank you for a lovely stay.

Disliked Unfortunately, on our arrival and continuing into the next day there were a very large group of people that had been allowed to set up camp in the field opposite the main site itself. They even had two cars of guests which left later in the evening.

They were extremely loud - screaming, shouting and riding quad bikes on the field for hours and hours on end. This absolutely ruined the peace and tranquillity of this sites and it's try essence.

My advice is to keep the site as low profile as possible. It is perfect the way it is!
It would be such a shame to lose your wonderful reviews by allowing large parties like that to disturb everyone's peace.

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Would make regular visits

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DANIEL P.

Primitive grass and earth tent campsite (woodland)

Liked Views, privacy, ambience, well kept facilities, quiet.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Features

No dogs allowed

Leisure on park

Bar or club house Cycle hire Evening entertainment Fishing Fitness centre Indoor swimming pool Kids' club On-site restaurant/cafe Outdoor swimming pool Playground Recreation room/arcade TV room Takeout Tennis Watersports

Amenities on park

Bath available Composting toilet Dog park Drying room Free wifi Grocery store Ice pack freezing Internet access Laundromat Parent & baby washroom Payphone Pick-up from public transport Portable toilet Pub toilets Restrooms Shower available Washing-up area Wifi

Groups welcome

Family friendly Motorcycle friendly Single-sex groups welcome Student groups welcome

Rules

Barbecue grills allowed Barbecue provided Campfires allowed Commercial vehicles allowed Dogs allowed No dogs allowed

Themes

Forest Hikers’ paradise Peaceful Remote location Spectacular scenery Wild camping Wildlife haven

Utilities

Charging facilities Dump station Electric car charging point(s) Propane/gas cylinders available Recycling available Renewable energy

Nearby amenities

Bar nearby Dog walk nearby Nearby farmers' market

Type

Farm Tiny (1-10 sites)

Nearby leisure

Canoeing/kayaking nearby Fishing nearby Sailing nearby Watersports nearby

Location

Nether Hall Farm

Walkgate Cottage

Harkstead

Ipswich

Suffolk

England

IP9 1BX

Directions

Timezone

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

GPS

51.95866°N
1.18752°E

Route directions

The site is accessed via unpaved farm tracks. On arrival , please follow the white arrows through the farm and up to the site. Please do not disturb the white farm house which is unconnected to the campsite.

Nearest transport

Coach
9 km Hand in Hand
9.2 km Bus Shelter
9.4 km The Drift
Rail
2.4 km Wrabness Rail Station
4.8 km Harwich International Rail Station
6.8 km Dovercourt Rail Station
Ferry
4.7 km Harwich International Ferry Terminal
6.1 km Shotley Point Marina Ferry Landing
6.1 km Shotley Point Marina Ferry Landing

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

Alton Water Sports Centre is set in 400 acres of countryside, where you can wander walking and cycling tracks, go fishing and try out watersports on the reservoir. All equipment, as well as bikes, can be hired at the sports centre. Suffolk Ski Centre (both 15 minutes’ drive) also has some high-octane activities, from snowboarding to skiing on the dry ski slope. More gentle local pursuits might include visiting National Trust-owned attractions including Pin Mill (10 minutes), the setting for Arthur Ransome’s ‘Swallows and Amazons’ on the Orwell estuary, and Flatford Mill (half an hour) in Constable Country, an area with glorious trails for hiking and cycling alongside the river Stour. Spoil well-behaved kids with a day out among the rare-breed animals and reptiles at Jimmy’s Farm and Wildlife Park (20 minutes), where you can also set them up with experiences like anteater-feeding sessions. And if everybody’s keen to get down to the waterside, you can walk to Harkstead river beach directly from the campsite in 15 minutes – but remember to check the tide times.

Water quality at nearby bathing waters

Name Distance Type 2020201920182017
Dovercourt 6.8 km Sea N/AExcellentExcellentExcellent
Felixstowe South 10.6 km Sea N/AExcellentExcellentExcellent
Felixstowe North 11.5 km Sea N/AExcellentExcellentExcellent
Walton 13.7 km Sea N/AExcellentGoodGood
Frinton 15.1 km Sea N/AGoodGoodGood

Data source: European Environment Agency

Must see

Christchurch Mansion 11.3 km

Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon Burial Mounds 18.2 km

firstsite 20.9 km

Colchester Castle Museum 21.1 km

Colchester Zoo 26.4 km

National Trust

Flatford: Bridge Cottage 11.5 km

Thorington Hall 17.8 km

Sutton Hoo 18.2 km

Bourne Mill 21 km

Orford Ness National Nature Reserve 28 km

Cycle routes

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

Other

STOUR ESTUARY (CURRENT BOUNDARY FROM 11/04/2005) 1.6 km

Wrabness - Essex Way - Ramsey - River Stour - Wrabness 2.5 km

Alton Water - Lower Street - River Stour - Holbrook 3.9 km

Pin Mill - Chelmondiston - Woolverstone - Pin Mill 4.3 km

Shotley Gate - Erwarton - Shotley - River Orwell 5.5 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.

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Frequently asked questions

  • Does Nether Hall Farm have a swimming pool? No View all features
  • Is Nether Hall Farm dog friendly? No View all features
  • What attractions are near Nether Hall Farm? Alton Water Sports Centre is set in 400 acres of countryside, where you can wander walking and cycling tracks, go fishing and try out watersports on the reservoir. All equipment, as well … Read more
  • When can I check in and check out of Nether Hall Farm?
    RV, travel trailer and tent sites
    Arrive:  3 p.m. –  7 p.m.
    Depart by:  11 a.m.
    On-park accommodation
    Arrive:  3 p.m. –  7 p.m.
    Depart by:  11 a.m.
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  • How much does it cost to stay at Nether Hall Farm? From $55.72 (for 1 night, 2 adults) - prices may change depending on your dates and party.