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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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 Tent Pitches |
 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: June 2018 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: Moon-light1 |
1 review from this member |
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 My partner and I stayed here for 1 week at the end of June. When we arrived we were greeted and shown many different sites on the campsite that we could stay; there was so much choice!
We settled for under the trees close to the entrance. This did mean there was a bit of trek to the facilities, but it didn't bother us.
The facilities were kept very clean and tidy. The showers were always hot. There was one time were there was no loo roll!
The campsite was quiet most of the time and is fairly well protected from the wind. On our last night it did become rather busy and noisy, but it all settled down after 11pm.
There are lovely walks from the campsite. Our favourite was visiting the nearby waterfalls and walking along the river. There are 3 pubs within walking distance as well. The closest one (Boot Inn) being the best.
The only problem we had is that if you want to travel outside of the campsite, then it's at least a good hour drive to get anywhere.
Overall we really enjoyed our stay and would definitely return. 
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| Date of Visit: May 2018 |
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| Reviewer: Clarewho |
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Friendly welcome, beautiful setting in a peaceful valley. This was our second visit.
The well maintained site has good flat pitches, with and without electrical hook ups. There are play facilities dotted about for children and the best stocked camp shop I have ever seen - necessary due to the location.
The wash blocks are well maintained and kept pretty clean although slightly more frequent checks are needed to keep toilet paper stocked. The shower cubicles are a decent size with stools, hooks and curtains but there are not enough (3 each plus family room) and the water pressure was poor at times.
There is a good washing up room and a drying room and laundry. There is a mixture of tents, pods and camper vans and it was very busy when we visited but everyone was well behaved with most people apparently in bed at about 11pm. There is free wifi but the signal is very weak so we couldn't use it. Not unexpected due to location and certainly not a problem for us.
There are 3 pubs in walking distance, two of which are very close. We recommend the food at The Boot Inn who gave a 10% discount to campers. There is a pleasant and easy circular walk good from the campsite - takes in waterfalls, railway, mill, stream, sheep plus lots of nice views and a pub near the end.
Tip: remember your insect repellent as the midges were out in force while we were there.
We would definitely visit again perhaps during a quieter period. It is not a cheap 'no thrills' site but overall I think it did offer good value for money.
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| Date of Visit: May 2018 |
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| Reviewer: Loobymartin |
1 review from this member |
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We have just spent the bank holiday weekend at this beautiful site. Such a shame that the over-zealous male manager managed to spoil our stay. Pouncing on people when they first arrive 'You'll have to pay extra for another vehicle if you leave it here!' rather than 'Welcome to our site!' - this for our visitors (2) too who only came for a few hours but were interrogated on arrival.
Even though the site is quite remote, and our group had spent nearly £800 in total (£600 on site fees and nearly £150 in the on site shop) he objected to our supermarket delivery, despite the fact they did not sell fresh BBQ food items in the shop and by day 2 of the bank holiday weekend they had run out of bags of ice. (These were not replenished until after the bank holiday weekend). They also charged 50p per block to refreeze our OWN ice blocks.
Inadequate facilities for the number of people on site (3 showers each for men / women)- even with an extra family room, we endured long queues and intermittent water pressure and temperature in the showers. It felt like they were trying to cash in by squeezing too many people in.
Such a shame as the site is in a fantastic location, with a well-stocked shop and nice, flat pitches. It has a good play area for children, but the manager went to the play area to tell all the children how long they could be on the trampoline and what time they should stop using the play area (before it went dark) so spoilt their fun.
Several nice pubs nearby and lovely clean facilities but too small for the number of visitors - and the on / off water pressure and variable temperature in the showers (plus the wait) made everyone miserable. Sadly we won't return. We are a well-behaved, middle aged group with money to spend - but will be spending it elsewhere next bank holiday weekend.
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| Date of Visit: June 2018 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Reviewer: Smelljeffshand |
8 reviews from this member |
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Just spent 3 nights here with the aim of climbing scafell pike. Here is my review of the site.
Pros.
1. Absolutely stunning location
2. Site very clean and tidy and friendly staff washrooms and showers immaculate.
3. Shop very well stocked with all the essentials.
4. Brilliant site for walks.
5. Three great pubs either side.
6. Fairly easy to find site.
Cons.
1. Unfortunately this is where it all goes wrong we went out for a walk on Friday morning and by the time we come back on Friday night the VW campers club have taken over the whole site vans were parked all over the place no regard for the six meter rule some vans and the awnings were parked literally right outside our motorhome loud music was being played all night and dogs yapping at everybody who walk past. Barbecues were lit right outside peoples tents and caravans and were left smouldering all night anybody going to the toilet could possibly trip over them.
On Saturday Music was being played loud all day one silly woman who was drunk got up and started to try and dance and then sat down after about two minutes when she realised she made a complete tit of herself. One couple who were next to us just went in the tent and stay in there all day it was such a shame because it was a lovely weekend I’m pretty sure that this is not the whole representation of the VW campers society as a lot of them were being very civilised but there was these inconsiderate individuals that had decided that the campsite was theres. Completely took over with no regard for anybody Inot even the owners did anything about. Which I find very sad. Eskdale your a good site. You could be brilliant.
Would I come here again. Yes. But I would phone first to find out who the pitch invaders would be !
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| Date of Visit: March 2017 |
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| Reviewer: Lizbrophy |
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Had a fab time at the vw weekend, this is our 1st visit but won't be our last.
Great site with lovely, friendly and most helpful staff, a great credit to you all. Lovely area, 3 great pubs and a lovely train ride
Terry and Liz brophy
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| Date of Visit: February 2017 |
Unit: Other |
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| Reviewer: Webmaster |
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Please note that as from the 2017 season this site is no longer managed or run by the Camping and Caravanning Club.
The site remains open under independent management, and is accepting bookings as normal for the 2017 season.
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| Date of Visit: September 2016 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Reviewer: Mickcoleman427 |
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A lovely site in a beautiful setting - tranquillity itself. If you aren't a walker/cyclist or want a ride on Ratty this may not be the place for you but the wardens are friendly and very helpful, the on site shop sells quality products including meat and beer (what else is there) and the facilities are absolutely excellent.
Lots of lovely walks and three excellent pubs serving good food within easy walking distance.
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| Date of Visit: July 2016 |
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| Reviewer: Amber86 |
12 reviews from this member |
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Had rung a few hours before to check availability. Warm welcome & shown around, taken to pitch & helped to hook up as a long lead was required. Given a choice of pitches. All this & we hadn’t arrived until 6. 30pm.
Facilities 5*. Well stocked shop, good opening hours. Lovely toilets & showers, heated, warm, & clean. Showers warm & free with no annoying timers. Lots of hooks, stool, & shower curtains that work. Drying room, laundry & rotary clothes lines for campers use. Plenty of picnic benches around. Wifi free, & noticed coverage better when less campers on site but a good signal around shop area all the time.
Excellent location. Lovely hill walk to Blea Tarn (beware, you need to walk to the disused huts at the top of the hill, & the path is difficult to see from here. Look up to left diagonally & follow the stone cairns).
Also recommend the Stanley Ghyll waterfall walk, both of these are detailed on the walk leaflet available in the shop for a couple of quid. Within 10 minutes walk is a small shop in Boot, 2 pubs, & a cafe & giftshop at the steam railway station. Old ratty is a fun little train for kids & enthusiasts but also used by lots of walkers.
We only tried one of the pubs, the Brook House Inn, which had an excellent varied menu, local beers & 180+ whiskies. Well recommended, even the crap taxidermy made me laugh almost as much as the barman’s dry sense of humour.
The majority of the other campers were really friendly. Noise from kids was minimal as they tend to put families in one field, & adults in the other.
I nearly forgot the views, absolutely stunning & hard to beat, even in the Lakes. We did notice that many campsites in the area had views or electric hook ups. This site has both. In fact we would probably go so far as to say this is the best C&CC site we have stayed on.
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| Date of Visit: August 2016 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: Okantfoss |
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I think we must have been very unlucky indeed as our experience was not a good one. We arrived on a Friday and the site was VERY full. We were offered a choice of two pitches - one was in the middle of the family area which was already very full and the other was next to the stream.
It seemed we were being encouraged into the family area as the pitch was more likely to stay dry for 9 days but to me it looked very full already so we opted for the pitch by the stream.
On the first night a tent started to pitch at 11pm right next to us. There was extremely loud swearing coming from them which woke me up and they proceeded to make noise as they drank until 3am.
The next night we had competing sound systems - one from the pods and one from the camper next to us. It was the worst weekend's camping I have ever spent. I found it a very noisy site in general over the weekend. In the week it changed as the site emptied somewhat.
Normally I'd expect someone to wander round at night keeping an eye on noise, but this didn't happen here.
In my opinion it doesn't have sufficient facilities. There are 130 pitches, but only three WCs in the men's toilets. It is not pleasant to have to queue for a toilet in the morning which is what happened 3 or 4 times during our stay. Similarly there is an issue with just three showers for the site. And these run out of water mid shower - ironic given the amount of water ironic given the flooded tents!
Whilst the shop is very tidy and well stocked, it was a shame not to have some nice fresh bread available.
Overall, it's a tidy site, buy in my opinion it isn't up to the usual standards of Camping & Caravan Club sites. We actually left two days early forfeiting the pitch fees.
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| Date of Visit: June 2016 |
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| Reviewer: Jjstannard |
3 reviews from this member |
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We stayed for 5 nights over May/June half term in a large tent with electric.
- Twisty drive up so best take main road A595 as much as you can and approach from the west.
- Friendly welcome who offered 'quiet' or 'family' area. We have a small daughter so chose family.
- Flat ground and they bring extension leads to supply EHU if you are far from a distributor box.
- Good pubs, railway and walks within minutes of the site. Main shops are a good drive away.
- NO phone signal although they offer wifi.
PROS:
- Beautiful country side
- Very helpful staff. We had a tent behind making at racket at midnight and they dealt with it quickly.
- Well stocked shop and good play area with large trampoline.
- Showers clean and well maintained
- Site offers a variety of lovely pitching options.
CONS:
- I had 5 showers. During 3 of them the water ran out completely for several minutes and was cold upon it's return. I also had to queue frequently for them. Times ranged from 7. 30am - 10. 30am and also from 3pm - 7pm.
- Washing machine won't power up until you've paid the coin meter. Once it had done so my wife couldn't make sense of the digital set up on it. There were no instructions and her paid time was ticking down which is an unnecessary hassle. Printed instructions would be great.
- Trampoline has a sign stating '1 at a time' but frequently over 10 children were in there. The owner settled on '5 at a time' during most of the week.
- As play area was a small area with a trampoline and other gear, most evenings until 11pm we had children playing football or cricket immediately next to our tent on both sides, with balls hitting our flysheet often. Not the fault of the site but a 'no ball games' sign and perhaps a dedicated ball games area might have saved a few knocked over BBQs and gas stoves!
Overall the site was great and provided you don't mind queues and showers that cut out it is worth it for the view. If we were to return we would pitch in the quiet area and I'm sure have a completely different experience.
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