Mallinson's Woodland Retreat
Thorncombe, Dorset · Sleeps 2
The only place in Britain to sleep in a RIBA award-winning treehouse.
From £300 / night
- Hot tub
- Sauna
- Pizza oven
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United Kingdom
Britain, month by month
All 17 places on our Britain list say something about when to come. This page is those 17 and nothing else. It is not a guide to the weather in Britain, and there is no booking engine behind it — for dates, go to the owner.
How to read this
Owners mean two different things by a season. Some are stating when they are open — a campsite that shuts at the end of September. Some are stating when they think it is worth the drive — the fortnight the bluebells are out. Nothing in the wording separates the two, so we have not sorted them into piles we could not defend. Every place below carries its own words.
A month is filled in when the listing’s wording names it, so 14 March to 2 November fills March, though the gate is shut for the first fortnight of it. Where the wording names something we cannot put on a calendar — a season whose boundaries are arguable, an opening date with no closing one — it stays as prose rather than becoming a guess.
The 13 that name months
| Place | As we read it | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mallinson's Woodland Retreat | May to September | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it |
| Chewton Glen Treehouses | Open all year | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season |
| Kudhva | May to September | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it |
| Log House Holidays | Open all year | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season |
| Hinterlandes | April to October | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | Outside it | Outside it |
| The Living Room Treehouses | April to October | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | Outside it | Outside it |
| 57 Nord | May to June, and September to October | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | In season | In season | Outside it | Outside it | In season | In season | Outside it | Outside it |
| Troytown Farm Campsite | May to September | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it |
| Barn Farm Campsite | May to September | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it |
| Three Cliffs Bay Holiday Park | May to September | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it |
| Graig Wen | May to September | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it |
| Comrie Croft | May to September | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it |
| Glen Nevis Caravan & Camping Park | May to June, and September | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | In season | In season | Outside it | Outside it | In season | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it |
| In season, of 13 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 2 | |
Widest: May to June, and September — 13 of 13. Narrowest: November to March — 2 of 13.
What each of them says
The chart above is our reading. This is theirs, unedited.
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Stated season: May–September
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Chewton Glen Treehouses
New Forest, Hampshire · Sleeps 2–12
Britain's most famous luxury treehouses, suspended in the canopy of a five-star country house hotel's New Forest estate.
From £900 / night
- Hot tub
- Five-star spa access
- Breakfast hatch
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Stated season: year-round
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Kudhva
Trebarwith Strand, Cornwall · Sleeps 2–6
Radical architect-designed hideouts on stilts in a disused slate quarry above the Atlantic.
From £100 / night
- Sea views
- Wild swimming
- Sauna
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Stated season: May–September
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Log House Holidays
Cotswold Water Park, Gloucestershire · Sleeps 4–11
Family-run for over 40 years: eight Finnish log cabins around a private 130-acre lake on a personal nature reserve.
From £200 / night
- Private lake
- Hot tub
- Sauna
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Stated season: year-round — swim in summer, sauna in winter
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Hinterlandes
Lorton Valley, Cumbria
A fully off-grid hidden cabin (and a converted double-decker bus) that periodically moves location in the quiet north-western fells.
From £110 / night
- Off-grid
- Stargazing skylight
- Wood-fired heating
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Stated season: April–October
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The Living Room Treehouses
near Machynlleth, Powys · Sleeps 2–5
The original Welsh eco treehouses: six wooden hideaways in a hidden valley on the edge of Eryri (Snowdonia).
From £140 / night
- Off-grid
- Dark skies
- Dog-friendly
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Stated season: April–October
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57 Nord
Wester Ross, Scottish Highlands · Sleeps 2–4
Scandinavian-Highland design hideaways with floor-to-ceiling loch and mountain views near Eilean Donan and Skye.
From £250 / night
- Loch views
- Stone bathtubs
- Food hampers
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Stated season: May–June and September–October (dodge the midges)
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Troytown Farm Campsite
St Agnes, Isles of Scilly
Britain's most spectacular pitch: a tiny working dairy farm on England's most south-westerly inhabited island, tents metres from the Atlantic.
£ · Budget
- Beachside pitches
- Dark skies
- Farm ice cream
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Stated season: May–September
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Barn Farm Campsite
Birchover, Derbyshire
Meadow pitches bordering Stanton Moor and the Nine Ladies stone circle, five-star facilities, four major footpaths from the gate, and Chatsworth nearby.
£ · Budget
- Stone-circle walks
- 5-star facilities
- Camping barns
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Stated season: May–September
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Three Cliffs Bay Holiday Park
Gower Peninsula · Sleeps up to 5
Often called the best campsite view in Britain: clifftop pitches above the triple limestone peaks of Three Cliffs Bay in the UK's first designated AONB.
From £25 / night
- Iconic bay views
- Fire pits
- Bistro
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Stated season: May–September — book far ahead
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Graig Wen
Arthog, Eryri (Snowdonia)
A wild-feel eco campsite tumbling down to the Mawddach Estuary, with secluded woodland pitches, campfires, private paths to the Mawddach Trail and Cadair Idris looming above.
From £10 / adult a night
- Estuary views
- Woodland wild pitches
- Campfires allowed
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Stated season: May–September
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Comrie Croft
near Crieff, Perthshire · Sleeps 2–6
Scotland's benchmark eco campsite: car-free woodland pitches you reach by wheelbarrow, campfires, Nordic katas for glamping, an on-site mountain-bike trail network with bike shop, and a farm café.
From £12 / adult a night
- Woodland wild pitches
- Campfires allowed
- Mountain-bike trails
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Stated season: May–September
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Glen Nevis Caravan & Camping Park
Fort William · Sleeps 2–8
Camp directly below Ben Nevis on a 1,000-acre Highland estate, with an on-site restaurant and bar and the summit path nearby.
£ · Budget
- Ben Nevis at the door
- Restaurant & bar
- Highland cattle
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Stated season: May–June and September (midges peak midsummer)
Said in words, not months
Not every wording converts, and forcing one that does not is how a page like this starts writing content its sources never said. A season whose boundaries are arguable, an opening date with no closing one, two answers for two kinds of accommodation on the same site — these are left exactly as stated, and left off the chart.
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Looking Glass Lodge
Fairlight, East Sussex · Sleeps 2
An architect-designed lodge with full-height smart-glass walls that turn opaque at the flick of a switch, hidden in private ancient woodland in the High Weald.
From £295 / night
- Panoramic smart-glass walls
- Wood burner
- Private woodland
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Stated season: spring (bluebells) and autumn
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Eagle Brae
Struy, Scottish Highlands · Sleeps 2–6
A hand-carved cedar log cabin village on a Highland hillside where red deer and eagles are the neighbours.
From £140 / night
- Hand-carved cedar cabins
- Turf roofs
- Wildlife
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Stated season: September–October for stags and autumn colour
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Finn Lough
Lough Erne, County Fermanagh
Northern Ireland's most famous stay: transparent bubble domes where you stargaze from a four-poster bed on a private Lough Erne shoreline.
From £250 / night
- Transparent domes
- Forest spa trail
- Private shoreline
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Stated season: autumn/winter for the clearest skies
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Great Langdale Campsite (National Trust)
Cumbria
120 informal tent pitches directly beneath the Langdale Pikes, campfires allowed, a proper pub two minutes' walk away, and a near-year-round season.
From £12 / night
- Mountain views
- Campfires allowed
- Pub next door
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Stated season: April–October for the fells; magical in winter