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South Penquite Farm
South Penquite
Blisland
Bodmin
Cornwall (East) (Browse area)
PL30 4LH
Tel: 01208 850491 or 07494 864246
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Pitches: 40
Open: 01/04/2024 to 31/10/2024
01/04/2025 to 31/10/2025
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 Tent Pitches |
 No Caravans |
 No Motorhomes |
 Small Campervans |
 Glamping Units |
 No Statics for Hire |
 No Statics for Sale |
 No Seasonal Pitches |
 No 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 |
 Motorbikers Welcome |
| Facilities |
 Toilet Facilities |
 Hot Showers |
 Washing Up |
 No Bathroom |
 No Baby Changing |
 Laundry On Site |
 Drinking Water |
 Disabled Friendly |
 No Chemical Disposal |
 No Battery Charging |
 No Gas Exchange |
 Recycling Facilities |
 No Kitchen Facilities |
 Freezer / Fridge |
 No Motorhome Point |
 Wifi Access |
 Shop <1 mile |
 Bar <1 mile |
 Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway <1 mile |
| Activities |
 Kids Playground |
 No TV Room |
 No Games Room |
 No Evening Ents |
 Fishing <10 miles |
 No Wild Swimming |
 Indoor Pool <5 miles |
 No Outdoor Pool |
 Horse Riding <1 mile |
 Cycle Hire <5 miles |
 Golf <5 miles |
 No Tennis |
 Beach <10 miles |
 No Watersports |
 No Boat Launch |
| Other Features |
 No Sea Views |
 Working Farm |
 Campfires Allowed |
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 No Waterside Pitches |
 Public Transport <5 miles |
 No Dog Walk |
 Electric Car Charging Point |
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| Date of Visit: July 2009 |
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| Reviewer: TIGGER67 |
4 reviews from this member |
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 We spent a couple of nights here.Loads of room to pitch up. Toilets and showers were great and clean. Radio in toilets was a nice touch. Small play area but so much room in fields that our 8yr old hardly went near it!lovely room for chilling out and warming up with a log burning stove and comfy sofas. Games room and even a small kitchen! Oh and a barn where you can play football!
Friendly ducks and ponies and great views.
A great site. Only downside was the track into the campsite and the fields. Very pot holed and after torrential rain we had to carefully negotiate it in our little car. No probs if you have a range rover etc, only wish we had! 
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| Date of Visit: July 2009 |
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| Reviewer: Clashworth |
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We have just returned from South Penquite Farm. This was our first camping trip since having our boys. The site is fantastic, the facilities are very good. The solar powered showers are lovely and hot as well as very clean. The washing facilities again are clean this includes the toilets. The site is very remote, which provides a safe haven, and very relaxing environment. As the site only allows tents, and allows real campfires the atmosphere is very friendly, we found it very traditional and provided the experience we wanted to show our boys. Our boys loved the whole experience, and did not want to leave even though we were drenched!
On arrival you simply find a space and pitch up. The farm animals are very friendly and are quite entertaining. We were not blessed with sunny weather, in fact we had heavy rain most of the week, which was a little testing with a 2 & 3 year old, however the site has easy access to the main tourist spots, where you can dry out.
It is approx. 30 minutes from Newquay, and some great attractions, such as Lapa Valley Steam engines and Eden Project. We even found an indoor play centre in Wadebridge, great for under 5s during a downpour!. There are a selection of supermarkets in Bodmin, including a Asda, Morrisons and Sainsbury's, as well as a selection of take away outlest and restaurants. We are certainly thinking about booking again next year. Hopefully with better weather!
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| Date of Visit: July 2009 |
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| Reviewer: Lauzd |
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Brilliant site! Toilet and shower facilities are fantasic - new and clean. The shower rooms are large and the water hot. Four sinks for washing your pots. The owners provide Ecover washing up liquid, shower gel and clothes washing liquid free of charge.
Campfires are allowed and wood can be purchased from the farmhouse. Very spacious site - the 'full' sign was out during our stay and there was still PLENTY of room.
Although we didn't use it there is also a meeting room with tea and coffee facilities and a pool table. The owners provide you with a leaflet of a walk around the site - great, interesting walk :-)
Loads to do and see in the area. We visited Lanhydrock (NT), Fowey, Padstow, Charlestown, Mevagissey, Bethruthan Steps (NT), Newquay zoo, Trago Mills and the Boconnoc Steam Rally.
Definitely recommend - we will be going back!
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| Date of Visit: August 2008 |
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| Reviewer: Noodle28 |
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This was our first visit to the site and unfortunately we didn't have brilliant weather to go with it.
The site is set on the moor with the closest town being Blisland. If you want to get the your traditional Cornish foods (clotted cream and Cornish pasty) then the little store in the town stocks them. They also stock a Chocolate Pasty (if you don't fancy a mincemeat one).
The site is split across two / three fields. There are no marked pitches so everyone pitches where they want to. The showers and toilets are well maintained and clean. One downside would be that there are only two washing up sinks so you can find there is a queue but if you time it right you avoid the wait.
A great bonus to the site is the farm animals. We had the farm dog, ducks, geese, turkeys and a very friendly cat (who made our tent its home on the last day) visit us in the week we were there. Another great bonus of the site is that you are allowed campfires. For £6 pound you can buy a bag of logs, a bag of kinderling and half a box of firelighters. This gave us several nights of campfires.
If you head right at the end of the farm lane you can reach the A30 and Bodmin. From here you can then drive to the Eden project, Charles Town, the Jamaica Inn or Bodmin Jail. A good follow up to your visit to the jail is a visit to Shire Hall in the centre of Bodmin. Here for a few pounds you can see the re-enactment of the trial of Mathew Weeks who was accused of murder and subsequently held in Bodmin Jail before he was hung.
If you turn left out of the farm gates you can head towards the north coast where you can visit Tintagel Castle and King Arthur's Great halls. If you fancy having a go at Paintball or Laser quest then you will also find Dig Dunks site this way as well. The games are well managed and it's not to expensive.
Overall, this is a site that is set well away from many others but it stills allows you good access to Cornwall and what it has to offer.
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| Date of Visit: July 2008 |
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| Reviewer: Chrisse10 |
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2nd visit to this great site. Solar showers are free & yes, they are hot, with plenty of hot water whatever the time of day. TIP Don't believe your Sat Nav, used Tom Tom & it takes you to their neighbours on the other side of the hill. Nice man, but getting a bit fed up with people asking where to find the camp site & this was only in July.
Toilets are basic, but you¡¦re not in there for long. Everything you need for a nice fire at night is on sale from the farm house. Some pitches have a slight camber, so beware or you'll wake up on the floor.
Play area for the kids & plenty of farm yard creatures to see too. Unfortunately we had to leave so missed out on helping with the Sheep Shearing & Hay Making.
Well positioned for all that¡¦s to be seen locally. The cinema in Wadebridge is a joy if your fed up with Multiplexes and the Asda down the round does cheap breakfasts if your not up to cooking every morning.
I will definitely go back.
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| Date of Visit: August 2007 |
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| Reviewer: Jenandphil |
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This is a great site if you want a tents only, low key site with peace and quiet, good views, a rural location, and on an organic, eco-friendly farm! My husband, I and three girls have spent three happy summer hols here, in 05, 06 and 07.
It is easy to get to, not far off the A30, but seems much more remote. It is in the middle of Bodmin Moor, near the very pretty village of Blisland, which has a very friendly shop, with internet cafe! The site itself is right next to a working farm.
Everything the owners do is planned to have a minimal environmental impact. The shower block was new on our last visit, and is a very clever extension on the back of the farm's barn, which looks like its always been there. Inside, the solar powered showers are hot and pleasantly powerful, and the cubicals are decorated with bright mosaics made from recycled materials.
There is a washing machine (you can buy eco-friendly tablets), though it gets busy, a freezer, more intended for ice packs than food, an outdoor washing up point, and a toilet block, though up to 07 the water in the basins was cold only. Everything is very clean, pleasant and well stocked.
The site is arranged on three small, level fields, with roughish grass, and the tents around the edges, where there are banks and hedges. You choose your own pitch and there is room to spread out. We much prefered this to a highly manicured site. All the children play in the middle of the fields, ideal for kites, etc, and on an evening lots of people have campfires. Great fun!
Other points to note include the lovely farm walk, over the moor, along a pretty little river valley, to the farm's 'story circle' and through a field with standing stones. Also, the farm's friendly ginger cat (we found him in our tent once, as, obviously, he owns the place!), the chickens in the farmyard and the resident turkeys, which march around the camping fields!
We would thoroughly reccommend this site!
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| Date of Visit: May 2008 |
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| Reviewer: Ed Porteous |
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Spent a few days here at Whit weekend. It was quite busy and having only two toilets it caused a bit of queueing, they are basic but tidy and clean. The shower block is wonderful, very upmarket and spotless.
The weather was atrocious so choose your pitch wisely you are on a moor with virtually no shelter. This is a very peaceful and quiet site with the ducks and geese, always ready to pick up a crumb or two.
The farm walk is a must with open moorland then through trees to the river and the wildlife all around this has to be one of the highlights of our stay there and to come back in the evening to a campfire and sizzle your sausages and toast your toes with a glass of wine, well never mind anything else I will settle for that.
This site is a must in my diary
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| Date of Visit: September 2007 |
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| Reviewer: Deva7 |
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This is a proper campsite, pitch were you like. We loved this, Real Fires, you can build your own fire pit and buy logs from the farmer you can also order lamb from the farmer to be taken home with you, we wanted half a sheep but had not given the farmer enough notice so we had a quarter instead, which was lovely. The sheep are his own, this is a working farm which children love, there are working dogs which are very well behaved. Lots of funny looking chickens running round as well LOL:)
The showers and the toilets had recently been sorted and were very good.
Some Yurts were available these looked nice.
Our car did not like the road going in but if you have 4 x 4 you won't notice we have a pug 106.
Very Eco friendly site providing free washing up liquid, shower gel etc.
No evening entertainment LOL you just have to sit by the real fire and watch the stars.
We would stay here again.
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| Date of Visit: July 2007 |
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| Reviewer: Londonrom |
2 reviews from this member |
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This campsite has a great peaceful location with moorland moorland ponies right by the farm gate. Facilities were clean and eco friendly. We loved the free roaming ducks and baby turkeys who would tour the tents looking for breakfast.
There is a freezer to freeze your ice packs though some days they didn't refreeze as so many users.
The nearest shops (small) are at St Breward and there is a pub there too.
There are many walks in the vicinity and you can wander the farm and walk to Delford Bridge and the De Lank river.
A word of warning if looking at the OS map you think you can walk to St Breward via Penvorder . The footpath crosses a quarry and involves a very steep descent and ascent and if the bracken has grown can be very difficult to follow and has some sheer drops nearby. We were rewarded by a close view of the local peregrines but it wasn't a relaxing walk.
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| Date of Visit: August 2007 |
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| Reviewer: Stevej180 |
3 reviews from this member |
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Driving across Bodmin Moor to find South Penquite, you come upon a sign for the farm, with a notice saying 'campsite full' underneath it. What they call 'full', most other campsites would call 'half empty'. There was so much room that it doesn't matter what size of tent you have (they charge by the person, not the unit). This all helps to contribute to a wonderfully relaxed atmosphere, with livestock running freely around and plenty of 'free-range' children as well.
The new shower block is one of the best I've ever experienced, although the toilets, whilst clean, are a little bit dated now and could benefit from the same treatment as the shower block! The lack of a bar / shop / entertainment etc. Was a definite plus for us - it is a very chilled and friendly place. Being able to have a camp fire was also nice.
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