Love the peace and informality here. No regimented pitches or squares you must park on etc. Lovely people and nice and cheap!

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Open countryside so nice and peaceful.
Log fires at night.
No hassle.
Friendly staff.

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I received a fantastic welcome from two sisters, who showed me to my pitch. I bought a gorgeous slice of steak from the farm shop. The toilets and kitchen, contrary to other reviews, were clean. I came here for the peaceful off-grid wild-feel camping, and to sleep in my van in proximity to woodland was perfect.

If you suffer from anxiety you should avoid this place. I booked for 2 nights, but on returning to my pitch for the second evening, I found it had been occupied by another party. I had left cooking equipment out on my pitch, to clean when I got home in my van. This had disappeared. I was stressed as I now had no means of cooking or making a hot drink. I phoned the farm, and the farmer had earlier cleared up my stuff - I had to pull it all out from the trash in the back of his truck. He'd made a mistake, however it was very careless to assume a mature solo traveller, who had booked for two nights, would abandon expensive items, including chocks for my van which were left in position. I said the least he could have done was to phone me to check if I was coming back. At this point the farmer became very angry and aggressive, said he didn't like my attitude and wanted me to leave. He drove away and returned with a cash refund, and told me again to get off his land.

Sunshine all the way, big open fields and lots of space. It's all we need for a great weekend. Kit the dog loved it!
Everything provided is a bit basic, but there's nowt wrong with that. Had a great time and hope to be back this year.
Really handy shop just across the way.

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We loved the spacious pitches with plenty of room and the woodland location and field options made Nightingale Gales one of the best sites I’ve been to in a long while. The shop was also well supplied meaning we didn’t have to leave to visit the shops for the whole weekend which was just what we needed and could enjoy some much needed down time in the sun at a spot pretty much just on our door step.

Whilst we are no strangers to wild camping and “back to basics” style of camping, the facilities provided were not the cleanest particularly the toilet in the woodland area and the showers and wash up area Buildings.

Really big site so no matter where you pitched there’s plenty of space from other campers. Also no litter and the fields are well maintained plus a football area.

It is very very basic. A few single portaloos dotted about the site so absolutely fine for one or two nights but not much longer. Didn’t see any signs as we arrived as to where we needed go check in etc so just pitched up with friends that had already arrived and no one came to check.
There were a couple of larger groups that didn’t seem to sleep and were driving in and out which disturbed us a bit.

Peace and quiet. Secluded in the forest/ woods.
The shop with variety of food available.
Enjoyed the pigs roaming around the site.

Toilets need regular cleaning.
Not well sun posted and a little difficult to find, but worth it when we did did.

The owners and staff were absolutely wonderful and helpful. So friendly and welcoming! The site was one of the best I’ve been to if you are looking for proper woodland camping. There are toilet and shower facilities available and a small farm shop (which has everything you would need and is very cute!) I also met a dog, which was a highlight! The woodland campsites have fire pits for the authentic camping experience and I will definitely be returning! If I could rate them higher, I would!

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Camping in woods
Relaxed atmosphere
Fire allowed
Friendly owners
Working farm
Farm shop

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Lovely peaceful site. Hosts charming and attentive. Very tranquil.

Just something to bear in mind that the road leading to the site is only single track, but probably only half a mile long. We had a twin axle and fortunately we didn't come across any other traffic on way in and way out. Could have been problematical!!