9 campsites
Every site here is hand-picked for the guide.
Wimbles
An almost-wild camping meadow in beautiful East Sussex, now Warbleton Farms, with just a few pitches across many acres, compost toilets, owls at night and a stream for kids to dam
East Sussex
Beech Estate Campsite
An off-grid, wild-glamping bell-tent site scattered across a 600-acre woodland estate near Battle in East Sussex, so densely wooded you can genuinely get lost here
In the forest
Turner Hall Farm Campsite
A no-frills, first-come-first-served farm site for walkers and the peace loving, tucked away in the little-known Duddon Valley with the fells rising straight from the gate
On a farm
Dernwood Farm Campsite
A back-to-nature wild camping and glamping farm in the East Sussex woods, where you trolley your kit through the trees for firepit cooking and home-reared produce
In the forest
Llanthony Priory
Gloriously basic camping in the shadow of an 11th century priory, pitched in a circular clearing under the Black Mountains in the Vale of Ewyas for a few pounds a night
In a valley
Middle Beardshaw
A tiny, sheltered field for a few tents on a working farm in the Brontë country hills of East Lancashire, a mile from Trawden with campfires allowed on a stone platform
Lancashire
Brecon Beacons Wild Camping
Turn-up-and-pitch wild camping at the foot of the Brecon Beacons, with Pen Y Fan views, fire pits included, and walking routes leaving directly from your pitch.
In a valley
Barrisdale Estate Campsite
The walk-in proves the point: Barrisdale is a wilderness campsite on Knoydart's south shore where the mountains do all the talking.
By the sea
Mynydd Derwydd Wildcamping
Eighty acres of North Wales mountain farm with a fire pit per pitch and views across to the Berwyn Range and Arenig Fawr -- this is wild camping with permission done properly.
On a hillside
Why these made the list
- Barrisdale Estate Campsite
Seven miles of track or a boat across the loch; tent-only with basic facilities, estate-managed, and exactly what permitted wild camping should be.
- Brecon Beacons Wild Camping
Genuine by-permission wild camping with fire pits and water on site, the farmer collects payment, you choose your spot.
- Mynydd Derwydd Wildcamping
Permitted wild camping on a real working farm, fire pit per pitch, 4x4 access -- bring everything, leave nothing but ash.