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Eskdale Campsite National Trust
Boot
Holmrook
Eskdale
Cumbria (Browse area)
CA19 1TH
Tel: 019467 23253 or 019467 23270
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Pitches: 110
Open: 01/03/2024 to 31/12/2024
01/03/2025 to 31/12/2025
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 No Caravans |
 Motorhome Pitches |
 Small Campervans |
 Glamping Units |
 No Statics for Hire |
 No Statics for Sale |
 No Seasonal Pitches |
 Electric Hookups |
 No Hardstandings |
 No Fully Serviced Pitches |
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| Who's it for |
 Families Welcome |
 Not Members Only |
 No Rallies |
 Not Naturist Site |
 Dogs Welcome |
 No Dogs Allowed |
 Groups Welcome |
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| Facilities |
 Toilet Facilities |
 Hot Showers |
 Washing Up |
 No Bathroom |
 No Baby Changing |
 Laundry On Site |
 Drinking Water |
 Disabled Friendly |
 Chemical Disposal |
 No Battery Charging |
 Gas Exchange |
 Recycling Facilities |
 No Kitchen Facilities |
 No Freezer / Fridge |
 Motorhome Point |
 Wifi Access |
 Shop On Site |
 Bar <1 mile |
 Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway <1 mile |
| Activities |
 Kids Playground |
 No TV Room |
 No Games Room |
 No Evening Ents |
 Fishing <5 miles |
 No Wild Swimming |
 No Indoor Pool |
 No Outdoor Pool |
 No Horse Riding |
 Cycle Hire <1 mile |
 Golf <1 mile |
 No Tennis |
 No Beach |
 No Watersports |
 No Boat Launch |
| Other Features |
 No Sea Views |
 Not Working Farm |
 No Campfires Allowed |
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 Riverside Pitches |
 Public Transport <1 mile |
 Offroad Dog Walk On Site or Direct Access |
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| Date of Visit: August 2010 |
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| Reviewer: Julie.Becca |
2 reviews from this member |
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 We stayed in this campsite for 7-nights at peek season.
Staff were very friendly and helpful (and VERY hardworking), Fantastic facilities, absolutely spotless toilet & shower block with 'proper, temp adjustable showers' and not the annoying push button type. Well stocked shop with reasonably priced essentials. Ideal washing up area with plenty of sinks. Stunning location and a great base for walks.
On arrival we were offered the option of pitching our tent in a quiet area, away from the larger family tents which was ideal for us.
A very useful drying room to leave your wet kit after a long walk on the fells!
Very dog friendly site. Seemed like a great children's play area with a trampoline. 2 decent pubs within walking distance, had a nice meal at the Boot Inn.
Would've been good to have recycling bins on site.
We would highly recommend this campsite. 
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| Date of Visit: August 2010 |
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| Reviewer: Karin16 |
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We have just had an amazing week away at this site. Its very clean and tidy. Spotlessly clean hot working showers and were free to use and not on timers. Staff on site were great and always available for info. Site itself was great for families and pitches well organised. Only drawback was its so remote its quite a travel to stock up on food etc. So take plenty with you although site shop has a good choice. Early in the week due to the rain everyone was asked to leave their cars in the car park as some were chewing up the grass, so the staff helped with a quad etc to pull trailers to the cars and to help people get all their gear up from the pitches. Nothing was a bother to the staff who were still working late into the night getting everyone in for the bank hol weekend.
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| Date of Visit: August 2010 |
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| Reviewer: Andyw1976 |
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We`ve just come back from our first trip to Eskdale. This is the perfect site for any one who loves walking even for our family with two young children. The facilities on this site are second to none toilets spotless shop well stocked etc. I do recommend the Brookhouse Inn food is very nice and reasonably priced.We will certainly be returning.
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| Date of Visit: August 2010 |
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| Reviewer: Bwfcdave1 |
8 reviews from this member |
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Superb site which is really well looked after by very hard working wardens and their team.
Facilities were excellent and always spotlessly clean, despite the wet weather and muddy fields. Could always get a shower and these were always hot and with good water pressure.
Great place for kids with a playground and the trampoline is a masterstroke - was the focal point for our 5 year olds for the whole stay.
Plenty of short walks available and the Ratty is a 10 min walk away. Recommend a trip to the watermill which is very close and a real step back in time. Only tried the Boot Inn but food was superb and all home cooked, good selection of beers.
If you want a site in the lakes away from the commercialised centre and in a superb location then give this a try
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| Date of Visit: August 2010 |
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| Reviewer: The Sweeney Family |
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We are a family of four (2 adults, a 3 year old and a 5 month old) that stayed on the site. We stayed in our tent on the first night and spent the following seven nights in a pod. We chose a pod as we felt it would be warmer for our baby, as he is so young. It was fantastic. We all had a great time. The site facilities were immaculate and the staff were friendly and helpful. We all slept really well in the pod and felt safe and dry. Our three year old loved the trampoline and swings on the playgrounds. There was plenty of room in the pod for ourselves, luggage, food and toys. The site shop had everything we needed at a reasonable price. We went out on several walks recommended by the site and the little town of Boot was easily accessible for pubs and a shop. Pods are great! Try it, you might like it!
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| Date of Visit: July 2010 |
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| Reviewer: Katymouse |
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Despite poor weather we had a great trip. The wardens were friendly and helpful, even though our visit coincided with the site being virtually full and something going wrong with the water pressure so that the showers kept ceasing to function - they must have been tearing their hair out with frustration, as the water board kept saying they'd fixed it, then it would go again.
Lots to do in the valley and around, for both enthusiastic hill walkers and not-so-enthusiastic. And not crowded with coachloads of tourists like Windermere area.
We had brought everything we thought we'd need except milk and bread, both of which were easily bought at the shop.
The children enjoyed the play area most of the time, although there was some trouble with unsupervised big children bullying younger ones.
Bathrooms immaculate, but some queueing at busy times. Did not use laundry. Dishwash area always clean, and longest queue only a minute or two.
The detailed local weather forecast was pinned up each morning, freshly printed off the internet - really useful to help plan the day.
We did not eat out or go to any pubs during our stay, so can't comment.
Highlights - driving over Hardknott and Wrynose Passes - better than any roller coaster! Blea Tarn walk. Finding the waterfall.
Lowlight - the abysmal weather. Still, the Lakes are the second wettest bit of Britain after Snowdonia, after all!
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| Reviewer: Chris/Lynn |
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We have visited this site a number of times previously (off season) and always enjoyed the experience. There was no crowding and the staff pleasant. The toilet/showers are spotlessly clean. However, when we visited in August I was quite disappointed to see that the tents were rather closely pitched together with doors pretty much opening on adjoining tents. The expression racking and stacking comes to mind! It wasn't what we expected from a club site. I would visit again but only off season, certainly not in the summer holidays. I would recommend the Brook House Pub, a two minute walk from the campsite, the beers on offer I am told were exceptional! much more so than the Boot Inn (which is a Robinsons pub). An excellent site with spotless facilities and if you don't mind crowding at busy times well worth a visit.
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| Reviewer: Eliz22 |
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A beautiful campsite. All the facilities were spotless which was amazing considering the amount of mud in the tent fields due to the rain. We stayed in a camping pod so didn't suffer the bogginess of the tent fields. The pods are expensive (£40 a night) but they do keep out the inevitable rain. The pods sleep 4 people but you will have to stack up your airbeds during the day if you wish to sit in there.
Our children loved the play areas, especially the trampoline. The shop was very useful and the children's toys were good value. If you have a serious walker in your family but the rest of you are not so keen then this is an excellent site to use as it offers many good mountain walks as well as more child friendly options. My husband chose to scale the heights of Scafell Pike whilst the children and myself were able to walk (5 Mins) to the Dalegarth station & take a scenic trip to the coast at Ravenglass. No, there's not any sand there but the children had fun turning the pebbles to look for sand hoppers.
I would also recommend the Eskdale water mill. We were going to try the Boot Inn but found they don't serve dinner until 6pm so we ate at the Brook House Inn and were extremely pleased we did. They had a very good choice of food i.E. On the children's menu they offered a healthy cheese/fruit board as well as the more usual Heinz pasta shapes for the less adventurous. For adults they offer a wide range of high quality, delicious food served in generous portions. We will be back!
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| Reviewer: Simul68 |
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Just got back from our second visit to this site and am still wishing I was there. Fell in love with it last October when myself my wife and 12year old son stayed in the camping pods. The site is the best I have been on with tremendous facilities, great showers and toilet facilities plenty of washing up sinks. A very clean site, excellent shop and the people who take care of it are so helpful.
This time we went with another couple with 2 boys and had a blast. The weather wasn't the best the first night but the pods gave some shelter as the trees provide a bit of a canopy, the site is ideally placed for most of the big climbs and Wastwater is 25 minutes away simply beautiful. We were given a heater both times but never used it the pods are so warm and cosy, spotlessly clean with a perfect decked area at the front for preparing a breakfast or barbecue. Would recommend to anyone, we will be back again net year for definite, love the place
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| Date of Visit: August 2010 |
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| Reviewer: Mcf13 |
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Ok so this was our first camping trip of 2010 and was really looking forward to getting to the lakes again for the first time in a couple of years. We chose the site based on reviews read and also joined the Camping and Caravan club as we normally camp at least twice a year.
The site itself is in a beautiful location and the scenery around the site itself was wonderful.
You will hear the waterfall just over the fields gushing when quiet, you must visit this with a camera.
Although we arrived in pouring rain we were pitched close to the amenities as we were there for 8 nights and this certainly made life easier with the kids. The facilities themselves are superb, clean and tidy almost all the time and the showers are hot and plenty of room to dry off and get changed.
I have to say that as an overall site this is hard to beat, friendly staff who do talk to you and are there to help when needed.
A couple of points to remember before hitting the site,bring along some provisions or shop when out and about as the main supermarkets for food are at least 45 mins drive, I have to say whilst the site shop is lovely and offers some fantastic locally sourced meats, it is quite expensive if you have 3 children.
Make use of the drying room which is an excellent addition when you have wet cloths, we even dried out our tent bags that got wet before leaving ( In the wet again!) well it is the lake district.
Overall this was a great camping trip and we are looking forward to returning next year.
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