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.
£££
- Private lake
- Hot tub
- Sauna
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Places to stay within 125 miles of Bristol
Measured in a straight line from the centre of Bristol. That is a distance, not a journey. We know where each of these places is to within a few metres and we know nothing whatever about the roads, so this page will not tell you how long anything takes — and neither will any page that dresses a straight line up as “two hours away”.
The best-placed city on the site, and not by a small margin. One circle drawn round Bristol takes in the Cotswolds, west Dorset, the Gower, mid Wales, Eryri and the north Cornish coast — six landscapes with nothing in common except that a Bristolian can get to all of them.
8 places, from Log House Holidays at about 30 miles out to Barn Farm Campsite at about 125 miles.
about 30 miles from Bristol, in a straight line
Cabinabout 50 miles from Bristol, in a straight line
Cabin
Mallinson's Woodland Retreat
Thorncombe, Dorset · Sleeps 2
The only place in Britain to sleep in a RIBA award-winning treehouse.
££££
- Hot tub
- Sauna
- Pizza oven
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about 65 miles from Bristol, in a straight line
Cabin
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.
££££
- Hot tub
- Five-star spa access
- Breakfast hatch
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about 65 miles from Bristol, in a straight line
Campsite
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.
£
- Iconic bay views
- Fire pits
- Bistro
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about 95 miles from Bristol, in a straight line
Cabin
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).
£££
- Off-grid
- Dark skies
- Dog-friendly
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about 105 miles from Bristol, in a straight line
Campsite
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.
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- Estuary views
- Woodland wild pitches
- Campfires allowed
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about 110 miles from Bristol, in a straight line
Cabin
Kudhva
Trebarwith Strand, Cornwall · Sleeps 2–6
Radical architect-designed hideouts on stilts in a disused slate quarry above the Atlantic.
££
- Sea views
- Wild swimming
- Sauna
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about 125 miles from Bristol, in a straight line
Campsite
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.
£
- Stone-circle walks
- 5-star facilities
- Camping barns
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How this page is worked out
We take the coordinates on each published listing, measure the great-circle distance from a single point in Bristol to each of them, keep everything inside 125 miles and sort nearest first. Distances are rounded to the nearest five miles, because a city centre is a convention rather than a coordinate and the second decimal place would be pretending otherwise.
84 of the 85 published listings carry coordinates. The one that does not cannot appear here at all — a place with no pin has no distance, and estimating one from its county would be an invention.
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