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The problem is, cooking over a fire, whilst on a campsite, just isn't that common over here..and if a site allows fires at all, it's not uncommon for them to be "communal".

We just haven't got that big of an, "out-in-the-wilds", Woodsman, type of market in the UK...so what kit there is, will probably be either cheap, flimsy tat from China/India..

 or...

...seemingly expensive, heavy(quality!), possibly bespoke bits of kit, supplying the Albion Canvas, bell tent, yurt, "glamping" types.....

I'd probably look at making something from a BBQ racking or oven shelf...

Ideas: 

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Adjustable%20cooking%20grate&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=adjustable%20cooking%20grate&sc=1-24&sp=-1&sk=

Possibly something simple like this(if I could be sure of being able/allowed to stake it in?) http://www.serenityhealth.com/images/products/arcg18_grill.JPG

Or something fully supporting, if I wasn't? http://www.dutchmansupply.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Campfire-grill-opened.jpg

Hi gekko..

I couldn't get that link to fully open..is it one like this?:

http://www.greenmanbushcraft.co.uk/outdoor-kitchen/stoves-grills/heavy-duty-steel-campfire-grill.htm

It looks okay (..and annoyingly, something that could probably be knocked together during a break-time, if you knew the right folk...)

Just to add...although it's probably how these are routinely used, personally I'd be inclined to not place food directly on them but to use a second s/steel grill/mesh(..and even then, only once the grill had been well and truly used/fired...)

The reason being, many years ago I worked for a company who imported and sold solid fuel based stuff(fire grates, wood burning stoves, spares- heat resistant paints, fire bricks  etc etc.)..and they started importing(from India/China?) these cast chimineas  (years before they became popular),and these were painted in the same brand and spec' of HT paint that  the stoves were painted in and what they also sold in aerosols(...as "spares")..

BUT this paint was banned in several US states!..and even our aerosols  had  "Irreversible effects" on the label! 

We had to open up the boxes and remove the "BBQ grills" from the chimineas that were equipped as such, to send them off to get the paint removed.....

The above may sound OTT and may have little or no bearing on the grill you're looking at....but personally, I wouldn't trust using anything of this type, that was "painted"... 

Yes, I suppose there is such a thing as too much research and too much "feedback"....

I didn't intend to dissuade you from purchasing the grill that you'd linked to, as once well used/"seasoned"..and in the right location, it'd probably be just the job... 

But as you're already finding, sometimes a simple BBQ will be just as handy...?

(although not all 'sites allow them!  ).