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Waterside House Campsite
Waterside House
Howtown
Penrith
Ullswater
Cumbria (Browse area)
CA10 2NA
Tel: 01768 486332
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Pitches: 120
Open: 28/03/2024 to 01/11/2024
28/03/2025 to 01/11/2025
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 Caravan Pitches |
 Motorhome Pitches |
 Small Campervans |
 Glamping Units |
 Holiday Homes for Hire |
 No Statics for Sale |
 No Seasonal Pitches |
 Electric Hookups |
 Hardstanding Pitches |
 No Fully Serviced Pitches |
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| Who's it for |
 Families Welcome |
 Not Members Only |
 Rallies Welcome |
 Not Naturist Site |
 Dogs Welcome |
 No Dogs Allowed |
 Groups Welcome |
 Motorbikers Welcome |
| Facilities |
 Toilet Facilities |
 Hot Showers |
 Washing Up |
 No Bathroom |
 Baby Changing Facilities |
 Laundry On Site |
 Drinking Water |
 Disabled Friendly |
 Chemical Disposal |
 No Battery Charging |
 Gas Exchange |
 Recycling Facilities |
 No Kitchen Facilities |
 Freezer / Fridge |
 Motorhome Point |
 Wifi Access |
 Shop On Site |
 Bar <1 mile |
 Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway On Site |
| Activities |
 Kids Playground |
 No TV Room |
 No Games Room |
 No Evening Ents |
 Fishing On Site |
 Wild Swimming On Site |
 No Indoor Pool |
 No Outdoor Pool |
 Horse Riding <1 mile |
 Cycle Hire On Site |
 No Golf |
 No Tennis |
 Beach On Site |
 Watersports On Site |
 Boat Launch / Mooring On Site |
| Other Features |
 Sea Views |
 Working Farm |
 No Campfires Allowed |
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 Lakeside Pitches |
 Public Transport <1 mile |
 Offroad Dog Walk On Site or Direct Access |
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| Date of Visit: March 2019 |
Unit: Campervan |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: Gallabers Traveller |
11 reviews from this member |
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 Really like this site. It is clearly still a proper farm with a campsite, meaning that agricultural sights sounds and smells are par for the course!
Having said that, the aspect from the camping field is to die for, with glorious views up and down the lake and up to Helvellyn,
(snow covered when we visited)
Pooley Bridge is a 20 min stroll away along the lakeside path for retail and pubs, but if you are looking to get your own craft on the water, you may not need to venture far for all necessities.
There is now a brilliant cafe on site which we can highly recommend. 
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| Date of Visit: September 2018 |
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| Reviewer: Gooner8026 |
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Very friendly staff, nice and peaceful on the shore of Ullswater. 20 minute amble into pooley bridge for shops and pubs, the crown inns fillet steak is fab, booking recommended.
Excellent recently refurbished toilets and showers, shame people cant read polite signs and follow the instructions when leaving said facilities. There is a small van on site offering hot food and drink to take away ( open friday night all day saturday and sunday morning).
One small criticism, it could do with some lighting around the pitching areas as its very dark. All in all a great little site with very friendly staff.
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| Date of Visit: May 2018 |
Unit: Campervan |
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| Reviewer: BeachDog |
30 reviews from this member |
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Campsite on the edge of Ullswater, mix of hard standing and grass pitches, mostly level. Camper van pitches available next to the waterside but no EHU.
Hardstanding pitches away from the waterside have EHU. Access for launching small boats, canoes, SUP's.
Great new clean facilities with a small shop on site. It is a working farm and you have to drive past farm buildings into the site. The farm dogs are around and are lively but very friendly.
Easy 15 min lakeside walk to Pooley Bridge and steamer pier. Very family friendly site with big fields for play.
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| Date of Visit: May 2018 |
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| Reviewer: Coastcamper |
35 reviews from this member |
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This is a perfect family campsite.
Apart from the hookup pitches you can camp where you like. We were a family group of 8 adults and 3 children (8, 3 & 5 months) in 3 tents and one motorhome. We chose the family field because of its proximity to the park and toilets which are right next to the cows. Pitch further away if the sound of mooing all night bothers you.
Plenty of space for ball games and ‘sports day’.
Direct access to Ullswater so get yourself an inflatable canoe and some life jackets or hire a boat from the site.
Toilets and showers pristine all BH weekend. There are no family facilities but the older 2 are used to camping with us and can shower themselves and the baby bathed in the sink then got rinsed off with his brothers.
Staff including night security extremely friendly.
And you are allowed fires in fire pits - such a great camping experience for everyone.
We’ve stayed on this site before and I can find no fault with it.
If you want regimented pitches and no animals there are plenty other sites on the Lakes to choose from.
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| Date of Visit: May 2018 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Reviewer: Sue Paul |
80 reviews from this member |
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Truly splendid site location wise and great new facilities for this year.
We wild camped water side, views to die for and loads to see.
Had a great walk waterside all the way to Pooley Bridge which has improved since our last visit thankfully, The Sun is great for beer and food but expensive.
Our second visit to Waterside and we will re visit for sure.
The only thing we didn’t like was the farm dogs bounding up to us at high speed as we didn’t know if they were friendly or not, it’s a working farm I know but hardly ideal. Don’t knock it though as a great site with great staff.
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| Date of Visit: August 2017 |
Unit: Other |
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| Nights stayed: 4 |
Travelling as: Family with young children |
| Reviewer: Shartley |
10 reviews from this member |
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Stayed in one of the Tipi's here on the side of the lake, great pitch with a fire pit and picnic table and natural divides between pitches. Very relaxing site, play park and small shop giving everything you need.
The toilet blocks were clean but do get filled with flies, this is kept on top of and doesn't really impact the site. Great location and footpath along the lake shore to the village which has great choice for food and drinks.
Highly recommended and if we go to the Lakes again we will head back here.
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| Date of Visit: April 2017 |
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| Reviewer: Mamunbabu2001 |
1 review from this member |
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Pros :
1. Nice location ( by the lake ).
2. Staffs are really friendly and helpful.
3. Easy access and town nearby
Cons :
1. Has an on site farm and entrance ( where the mina shower block, washing facility, shop, catering is located ) always smells of animal waste. The entrance road is often drity with washed animal waste from the farm.
2. Electric pitches are next to the road and farm. So, you have traffic noise and screaming farm animal at night.
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| Date of Visit: September 2016 |
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| Reviewer: Pbennett |
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Had an amazing time. First time camping. Drove from Peterborough to waterside farm, took hours but once here was made very welcome, even arrived late but still made welcome. Campsite was brill. Everything that you needed was on site anymore. Camp fire with the fire pit was so much fun and the boats were amazing. We will becoming back in a few months with the family this time. Thanks so much for an amazing time xx
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| Date of Visit: August 2016 |
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| Reviewer: Gwatts1984 |
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My family and I stayed here a few weeks back, we had only really camped in wales before this as closer to home. On arrival it was a bit wet and windy to say the least. But once pitched we took a stroll around and immediately noticed how friendly the staff was, how clean the site was and what great facilities they had. It brightened up and we had the best long weekend ever. I summited gow barrow fell and was taken away by the views of the lake district. 100% recommend this site. Hoping to stay in the lakes again in October and to summit scafell pike this time.
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| Date of Visit: July 2016 |
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| Reviewer: TIM R |
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Great location. Very friendly and helpful staff.
Exceptionally clean toilets and showers.
Cannot fault the facilities at all.
HOWEVER, when we arrived, we deliberately chose NOT to go into the family field. Nothing against children but we've been there, done that and got the scars.
Pitched up on a Tuesday and were surrounded by couples. Went out on the Friday for a walk to find that the world and his wife and their dogs and children had arrived and instead of using the family field, had pitched up in ours. Meanwhile the family field remained half empty.
There is supposed to be a 3 metre rule about pitching next to other tents but this was ignored as campers pitched anywhere they liked.
Needless to say, the couples around us packed up the next day, as did we and left a day early.
Perhaps some enforcement of the families in family field should be applied (volumes permitting), OR, reserve a field for couples only, after all, outside of school holidays it's couples that keep campsites ticking over.
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