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15/8/2015 at 11:40am
 Location: Cumbria
 Outfit: Hammock Camp Set Up - Generic
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Just to say I've struggled to find sites which allow and have facilities for hammock camping in England, found this one, and loved it. Recommended. If others have more to add... please do!

Haggs Bank Bunkhouse and Campsite

Sleeping on the ground, air beds, inflating mats and campbeds wreck me now due to disability. A hammock... better than sleeping in a bed for me.

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15/8/2015 at 3:49pm
 Location: Aberdeenshire
 Outfit: Several tents and a hammock
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Thanks, that's useful to know.

If you bring your hammock further north here are three sites I know of where you can hang it:

Red Squirrel

Gimme Shelter

Comrie Croft

- or there's always wild camping.

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15/8/2015 at 7:59pm
 Location: West Yorkshire
 Outfit: Bailey Approach Compact
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A question for Joe the toad please. How big (how many pitches) is the Haggs bank site? We tend to choose smaller sites and it doesn't say. Looks lovely and as it's a midway point for us, our daughter and my cousin, I'd quite like to go. Thank you!


15/8/2015 at 8:23pm
 Location: Cumbria
 Outfit: Hammock Camp Set Up - Generic
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We only saw one of the wood areas as I've a disability, so we stayed at the one by the lower car park (it has a brook at the bottom). Had everything we needed (there's an upper car park too and field beside it, and believe there's a second wood up there. No idea how many pitches they have. The owner is more 'camp where you're comfortable' type. I'd give the site a call. The owner is lovely. It's a small site with a family feel and very relaxed but spotless. My daughter loved it... she was woken up by red squirrels playing with our water bottle in the early hours :)

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15/8/2015 at 8:33pm
 Location: Cumbria
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Thanks Armchaircamper... can't do sleeping on the ground anymore as it wrecks my back. Hammock camping this week was a first, and can honestly say it felt like I'd been in a bed all night. Absolute heaven after three years of aching!

We wanted the 'wild camping' experience, but I like a proper loo and a decent shower! Also, I don't want to have to carry everything for miles. This was the perfect balance and I've been hunting for a site for ages. Seen a couple where you pitch your hammock from poles, but it seems a bit 'plastic' to me. There are midges at this time of year wherever you go, but I find the Scottish beasties climb through the smallest netting!

Like Fiznlil, we wanted a smaller site which isn't 'commercialised' but is still well run. Good quality basics without the entertainers dressed in tiger suits offering activities ;)

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16/8/2015 at 1:38pm
 Location: Oxford
 Outfit: helsport Kongsvold
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Joe, try treating your netting with permethrin, should kill the little beasties on contact. Keep it away from the cat though , it is highly toxic to them.


16/8/2015 at 5:11pm
 Location: West Yorkshire
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Many thanks for the extra information Joe the toad!


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16/8/2015 at 6:19pm
 Location: Midlands
 Outfit: Gelert Horizon 8 Supreme
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Thanks Joe the toad :) do you know whether any of the tents had ehu?


16/8/2015 at 9:38pm
 Location: Cumbria
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Not sure about the top field, but if you want to camp in the woods next to the tourer car park, the ehu are next door to the woody bit. Again, call the owner and he's the type where if it can be done, it will be.

Just decided we're back there on Tuesday for a couple more days, my daughter's nagging me lol.

Thanks for the tip chappers about the spray, will check it out when I'm next over the border. Live pretty much on Hadrian's wall and love Scotland and we often camp there. Only once had a bad midge experience where we woke with clouds of them in the tent lol.

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16/8/2015 at 9:41pm
 Location: Cumbria
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Red Squirrel place looks good by the way. Tend to creak up if I have to drive more than an hour or so, and journey wise, that's close enough. Love Dumfries and Galloway and tend to go there at least once a year, so you've solved a problem as I'm not using a tent again... hammock convert!

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16/8/2015 at 11:37pm
 Location: Aberdeenshire
 Outfit: Several tents and a hammock
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The Red Squirrel is excellent, Joethetoad. A few of us often meet there. If you keep your eye on the meeting up section for any organised DSG (Dead Squirrel Gang!!) get-togethers you can time your visit either to meet or to avoid us, as the case may be!

I'd be interested to follow your progress with the hammock. I've only had two nights in mine so far but slept really well both times, so this could be the way to go!

Happy hanging!

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Sarah


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17/8/2015 at 1:32am
 Location: Cumbria
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I saw the Hennessy hammocks and then cobbled together my own rigs from ebay. £11 each for the hammocks from China. Camouflage tarps for £6 each from another site. Mosquito nets £15 hung from the ridge line. I bought decent sailing rope to attach the hammock to the tree straps as I don't trust the stretchy nylon stuff. Not sure if you've seen the set up using two steel rings to run the suspension rope through instead of using carabiners but worked really well. Final thing was black netting pram bags for £0.99 each! Think each set up cost me £45 including paracord for guy lines, mini carabiners to hang torches etc from the guy line. All cosy, everything to hand. We survived the torrential rains on Thursday night and didn't get wet.

Top tip... tie a small piece of paracord on each rope the hammock hangs from which acts as a wick so rain water runs down that rather than into your hammock. Worked!

Loved it. No crouching about in tents, no hard ground, no zombie walking first thing, no waking on hot mornings sweltering.

Next time you're at Red Squirrels, give me a shout. Lovely invitation :)

Setup I'm using is in the pic below (hopefully if it links ok?)



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17/8/2015 at 5:48pm
 Location: Aberdeenshire
 Outfit: Several tents and a hammock
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Gosh, I'm impressed! I bought a hammock and underblanket from DD Hammocks. I already had the 3x3 tarp. There's so much gear for hammocks that it's like learning a new language to begin with - whoopie slings, dutch buckles, ridge line, etc!

Couple of photos here.

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Sarah


17/8/2015 at 7:01pm
 Location: Aberdeenshire
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Should have said, there's a meet coming up next month at Gimme Shelter.

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Sarah



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