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You will be quite lucky to get booked in for this week - sites tend to get full very quickley for bank holidays.  You haven't mentioned which area you are in, but have you tried using the campsite search button at the top of the page to narrow it down a bit.

Hi Sioux and welcome to UKCS. As mentioned by Galik unfortunatley the Bank Holiday weekends get booked quite a long time in advance. I would suggest you decide on the area you would like to visit, use the camp site search facilities on this site and try phoning the sites you have found. I hope you find somewhere to carry on enjoying the camping experience.

Happy Camping

Not for this weekend, but if you do decide you like the camping lark you might want to have a look at joinning the camping and caravaning club.  They have a lot of certified sites, which are small and a majority of them basic. 

Some are on farms etc and they seem to be all over.

Theres more information on their website.

Will let you know, will probably end up decorating if I can't get anywhere, thanks anyway.

I live in West Yorkshire, As I have to go to work on Tues I am looking at 2 to 3 hours travel - Lake District, North York Moors, Peak District etc for this weekend but would like suggestions for longer trips.

Don't laugh but I have purchased a Rage, Bergen 8 tunnel tent.  Can't try it cos my garden isn't big enough - according to the diagram it is over 7 metres long and my garden is in tiers - doh.  My Dad also gave me a little 2 berth dome tent ( he bought it, set it up and decided he liked B & B, I am not complaining)

Some of the lake district sites don't take bookings for tents so you might be able to get on those. Buts a long way if you can't get a pitch and they are basic sites which you were looking for!

The ones I know of are in Keswick:

Castlerigg Hall, Castlerigg Farm, Scotgates

They'll be full really quickly so you would need to get there early.

(we went ot Castlerigg Hall and got there about 10am to get in last year)

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/reviews.asp?revid=2730

we are going here sioux this weekend, been there loads its brill!! middle of the north yorkshire moors so a couple of hours for you. dont know if they are full or not but worth giving them a ring, ppl do cancel when the weather isn't perfect. basic site too.

Hi Sioux,

Try Woodhouse Farm near Ripon. Excellent site and has an overspill field so you may be lucky for this weekend. Good facilities, bar serving food on site (but not noisy).