thistledown farm
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Just back from a three night stay at Thistledown with friends over the bank holiday weekend. The site is beautiful, spacious and quiet. It was fully booked but we had a large expanse of space between our group and our nearest neighbours. The campsite is on a steep site with level areas for camping - we paid the extra £5 each way for the 4x4 "mule" to bring our clobber to and from the car and felt it money well spent, but there were wheelbarrows available for those more keen on manual labour! We halfway down the second pasture which seemed quite sheltered and the children enjoyed exploring, playing on the rope swings, visiting the pigs and toasting marshmallows over the campfire. We were a bit anxious about the composting toilets, but they were fine and not smelly and the showers were nice and hot. The surrounding area is very pretty - lots of Cotswold stone and little villages and the adjoining National Trust estate is beautiful with lakes and bluebells aplenty. Would definitely recommend for a peaceful break.
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Wonderful two night stay. We camped in the elderberry orchards and had so much room. The campsite was fully booked but there was still masses of room, so you didn't realise there were so many people there. A truly, unspoilt, natural, relaxing campsite with wonderful woodland walks and even animals for the kiddies to visit. The shop stocks everything you could possibly need but forgot to bring, including marshmallows. The fire wood truck comes round every evening and everyone is so friendly. We loved our break here and hope to come back again soon. Thank you.
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Simply the best campsite in the UK. The site is massive and beautifully landscaped. The facilities are excellent and wonderfully designed. It's not cheap but you cant compare this site to a standard site it is in a different league.
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Stayed for 3 nights beginning of September in a group of ten. The best thing is how far away from other campers you are so no disturbance at all. The second pasture is lovely with composting toilets and very hot very powerful showers, they don't look much but are very good! They provide massive wheelbarrows to cart stuff from car park but it's only a 2 min walk and nice not to have cars cluttering the beautiful scenery. Good shop although check opening hours and lovely woodland walks right from your tent.
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This place deserves all the praise it gets on here. We thought the place would be packed when we heard we were staying on a 'fully booked' campsite. But we could barely see anyone else. Great facilities and lovely people. It's well worth a fiver to have your bags brought back up - and if you're lucky you can hang off the edge while they do!
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Thanks for taking the time to review our campsite, and I'm glad that you enjoyed your stay.There are actually 4 composting toilets in the 3rd Pasture (they are on the map, on the right), but we would still like to put more in. Unfortunately there are more things that we'd like to do than we are currently able to do! A lot of the facility and parking pressures come from day visitors for groups, and this is something we are looking at for next year.I'm not sure whether you took your complimentary walking map when heading into Woodchester Park? The path doesn't disappear (it's a T junction on the map, so you have to head right), but it is more rutted than normal due to the felling work. You can walk over the deforested area rather than stick to the path, this only takes a few minutes and it's clear where to aim for as you can see the boathouse which is on the map. We do sell OS based maps in the shop which have much more detail on. We don't own the land beyond the campsite, so we are not in a position to erect signage. The National Trust are felling the softwood plantations and returning the park to pastureland with specimen trees (it used to be more like this until the 1950s), so small parts of the valley won't be as picturesque as they could be for the next few years, but that's all part of the changing landscape. I must stress that the National Trust and Priory Angling Club do not allow swimming or boats!The pigs are fine! They are routinely checked-over. Pigs just enjoy scratching (who doesn't?!), some breeds more than others.
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Just what we were looking for. Going when the schools had gone back we had the site to ourselves. It is very picturesque with large plots with space for campfires. The facilities are very good with hot showers and excellent washing up facilities. We will def be back and look forward to then trying out the new wood fired pizza cafe that they are currently building.
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I have just returned from a 1 night stay at Thistledown farm. As I was on my own with 2 young girls, I decided to hire a bell tent from 'rosebay bell tents', which was fantastic! Lovely to arrive to a camp that's already set up, ( particularly when the rain is lashing down!). The tent had plenty of space, the bed mats were very comfortable and the fairy lights and candle chandelier made for a very relaxed bed time! I have camped lots in the past and have always 'done my own thing', but I would definitely do this again for a short camping trip as it was so hassle free and relaxing!Thistledown itself was wonderful! We stayed on the badger site, which I believe is a part of pasture three. It was beautifully peaceful, with pheasants wandering past the door in the evening. We were 'delivered' to the site by the ' mule service', which the girls loved, so did I as it ment I didn't have to push a wheelbarrow with all our kit quite a distance and up / down some steep hills. The charge was £5, but once again I went for the way option- but why make things harder than they need to be?The people in the shop were helpful and gave us good advice about the best location and time to see newts etc in the pond. The girls loved the 'night hike' and seeing newts / frogs/bats. They also enjoyed exploring the woods and finding the tree swings.Toilets and washing facilities as mentioned previously, all were fine, with ample hot water for washing / washing up.The wood was delivered to our pitch by for our evening campfire, where we enjoyed star gazing (and spotted a shooting star!)All in all we loved our stay, and it was a great place to introduce my daughter to camping! Hope we can come again soon.
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We recently stayed at Thistle down farm and thoroughly enjoyed it (even though the weather was poor) . The pitches are large and the grounds are gorgeous!! Staff are friendly and accommodating and the shop is well stocked .All in all a great site thankyou