Lathkill Wild Campsite

A beautiful location with superb views. Even at the busiest time - half term week and a bank holiday - the site never felt crowded with plenty of space between pitches. Facilities are basic but adequate. Lovely walks locally along Lathkill Dale, and there is a good pub about 20 minutes walk away. We particularly enjoyed watching the wildlife in the fields opposite; hares, rabbits, deer and buzzards and many songbirds.

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Clean flushing toilets easy to reach pitch. Park next to car. Logs £5 fire pits available. Owners come after 6pm. Arrive and pitch.

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Lovely campsite, staff incredibly nice and attentive. Couldn’t ask for more!

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fantastic place , great hosts , toilets basic but clean.
Love the random field with its walls and small wooded areas and odd trees .
Great location for walks or just chilling , this was our 3rd visit and will be back.
We was in a self built van conversion and it was silent at night even with a small celebration happening in a nearby field.
Lots of cows in nearby fields which was lovely..
You will need a decent torch as the field is very dark and the toilets are un-lit .

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Beautiful views, remote, the member of staff who came around selling fire wood and the hire of a fire pit was very friendly.

Relaxed site with tents and campervans. No fixed pitches, just turn up and pitch wherever which was nice. Beautiful view and very quiet on our first night. It seemed like everyone was in bed by 10:00pm, At least that was the case on our first night (Friday)

On our second night (Saturday) a large group arrived and partied until gone 3am, which was less than ideal. friendly group but VERY loud.

The site's water turned off for some reason, no drinking water, no water for toilet flush or hand wash. We called the number reported it to the site management and they didn't seem particularly bothered. Told us to wait for 20 minutes and see what happened. we apparently weren't the first group to report this issue.

No hot water for hand washing in the toilets at all. just cold water.

These are of course downsides of a basic site that doesn't have any on site management.

We would return but fully in the knowledge that its the luck of the draw as to if its a quiet relaxed site or a party site.

Loved that you can choose where yo pitch. Also only s mile from the Lathkil Hotel - an excellent pub with reasonable value food. Also, only 3 miles from a great breakfast at the Old Smithy cafe in Monyash.

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great location, beautiful views, small campsite with basic facilities. Highly recommended if you are not bothered about showers

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Scenery and near by village was quite nice

Disliked the campsite. It didn’t feel like “ wild camping” as it was over crowded and disorganised and noisy. It was difficult to find a pitch for a small vw campervan and awning. We drove out in our van the following day and returned to find someone had camped right next to our awning we could just about get of van parked. It’s very basic farm camping with poor sanitation. It’s also expensive. Would not go again.

Have just got home from 5 nights at Lathkill. What an absolute gem this campsite is! Small, peaceful, wonderfully basic, well looked after, lovely vibe and surrounded by stunning scenery. The perfect recipe for getting outdoors and completely unplugged.
It won't be the site for you if you want showers blocks (or any shower), onsite shop etc but that is the beauty of this place (there are actual proper flushing loos, basins for washing, and drinking water though). The rest is the joy of your own self-sufficiency, the wonderful surroundings - and campfires 😊.

Neil (who runs the site), was so welcoming and helpful. He does the rounds a couple of times every day and checks in with everyone to make sure we're all OK and have everything we need. And was immediately at the end of the phone when I needed. He does a great job of looking after the site and its campers.
I will definitely be returning.
Thanks for a magical stay!
Emily and Dylan

There was nothing at all that I disliked. I just have one suggestion and that's to have somewhere to dispose of washing up water. I don't mean you need to put sinks in and hot water for washing up (we can bring our own washing up bowls and boil a kettle) but somewhere to dispose of the used dishwater (some kind of drain?) would stop people chucking soapy dishwater into the grass).

Back to basics camping, how it should be IMO. 3 nights (wed-fri), peacefull, no hassle, stress free, a great site to just get away from it all. Used this site as base camp to go hiking around the Peak District for a few days. Was nice to come back to camp, BBQ, beers, camp fire and just chill out for the evening with no distractions. Was welcomed by a kind gentleman, asked if I needed anything, made sure I was happy and left me to it. Very happy with my stay.

I nice quiet site, lovely scenery, and this is not a negative, however I would of liked a more picturesque setting, maybe some more mountains or lakes to have pitched next to.