Photos

Hadspen Glamping

“Off-grid luxury canvas lodges with great views and The Newt next door” - AA Inspector

LOCATION

CASTLE CARY, SOMERSET

Official Rating

★★★★★

Inspected by

Awards

Book Direct

Our Inspector's view

‘Disconnect with city life, reconnect with nature and unwind in luxury’ sums up the ethos of this idyllic, get-away haven deep in the Somerset countryside close to Castle Cary. Set on a hillside with stunning views, the three beautifully furnished, off-grid canvas eco-lodges welcomed their first guests in May 2023. Each lodge is individually designed and decorated in a unique style – Horscombe sleeps up to four; Lime Kiln up to five; Grisway up to seven – and all have a very stylish open-plan living area, fully-equipped kitchen, en suite shower room, and a veranda with outdoor seating and a barbecue. Horscombe Lodge has an outdoor copper bath hot tub, while Lime Kiln Lodge has a wood-fired hot tub. There's excellent food (breakfast/picnic) and drinks hampers, sourced from local farm shops, which can be pre-booked when finalising your stay. Next door (just a 5-minute walk away) is the award-winning Newt, set in the grounds of Hadspen House, with its garden café, farm shop and magnificent gardens. Pick-ups and drop-offs from Castle Cary Station (2.8 miles) can be arranged. Please note there is no mains gas or electricity, and no WiFi access.

Facilities – at a glance

Glamping

Hadspen Glamping

Lime Kiln Lane, Hadspen, CASTLE CARY, SOMERSET, BA7 7NX

Phone: 07730 355945

Visit website

View Accessibility Guide

Send email

Features

Facilities

BBQ
Picnic Area

Also in the area

About the area

Discover Somerset

Somerset means ‘summer pastures’ – appropriate given that so much of this county remains rural and unspoiled. Ever popular areas to visit are the limestone and red sandstone Mendip Hills rising to over 1,000 feet, and by complete contrast, to the south and southwest, the flat landscape of the Somerset Levels. Descend to the Somerset Levels, an evocative lowland landscape that was the setting for the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685. In the depths of winter this is a desolate place and famously prone to extensive flooding. There is also a palpable sense of the distant past among these fields and scattered communities. It is claimed that Alfred the Great retreated here after his defeat by the Danes.

Away from the flat country are the Quantocks, once the haunt of poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. The Quantocks are noted for their gentle slopes, heather-covered moorland expanses and red deer. From the summit, the Bristol Channel is visible where it meets the Severn Estuary. So much of this hilly landscape has a timeless quality about it and large areas have hardly changed since Coleridge and Wordsworth’s day.