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Campsite review: Nearly Wild Camping - Woodland Edge

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 Campsite review: Nearly Wild Camping - Woodland Edge This June I enjoyed my second trip to a Nearly Wild Camping site, near Sparkford in Somerset (for a brief introduction to Nearly Wild Camping please see my previous post here! ). Although I have had my NWC membership since last September, I have so far only managed to use it once, despite seeing lots of wonderful sites on there, it's sometimes difficult to find the time to fit it all in with various other events, trips, and general life! Anyway, myself and two friends were planning a trip, but as one of us lives down in Cornwall, we were trying to find somewhere relatively equidistant, and so, we decided to look in the West Country. For reasons that I have already stated in previous posts , England's West Country has so much to offer campers, and we found an array of sites that looked suitable for our trip, but one stood out above the rest - Woodland Edge. If the name alone wasn't enough, then the pictures of the bushcra...

Campsite review: Croscombe

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Campsite review: Croscombe Camping, Somerset At the start of May 2024 we journeyed down to the picturesque West Country of England, for three nights camping in rural Somerset. As most of Somerset is rural, there are plenty of campsites to choose from, each with varying assets and attributes to suit exactly what you are looking for. We were looking for a basic campsite, with toilet and shower facilities, but we didn't want an overly commercialised campsite that would appeal more to caravan and motorhome users, so we took to Pitch Up, and found Croscombe Camping (link at the end of the post). Located near the village of Croscombe, and not far from the town of Shepton Mallet, we chose the campsite for its 'middle of nowhere' feeling, whilst still being near amenities like shops for food and essentials if needed. The main selling point for me was that the site boasts a view of the Glastonbury Tor aka, the Isle of Avalon. I've long been a keen (but amateur) student of our na...