Reforge Retreat

You don’t need to be Van Gogh to see the picture-worthy beauty of the place. A cute wooden bridges stretches across to a shaggy, shrub-covered island in the pond, bluebells brighten the woodland floor and tent pitches are mown into the long campsite grass, stitched together by trimmed pathways. You’ll feel thoroughly at ease in this arboreal bolthole.

The textured 20-acres, complete with a wonderful renaissance courtyard and medieval clubhouse that they call 'The Reforge Inn', are all spread around a farm that is in the Domesday book that the family call home and have been running as a successful holiday business for years. It’s only recently that they’ve decided to extend their offering into the great outdoors, with furnished bell tents and timber clad cabins.

Groups, in particular, have come to love the place. A cluster of six bell tents can be rented together and you can hire the whole sites for events, weddings and the like. They even have the odd games nights to please the geeks, Shakespeare plays to please the theatre lovers and occasional acoustic nights in their courtyard! Couples and families are in their element too – a private, lake-side bell tent, for example, has it’s own unique location, while a second bell tent, pitched amid an orchard, feels charmingly hidden away.

If you’ve got nippers to entertain the semi-wilderness of the campsite grounds offer hours of intrigue and adventure. Visit the film location that was recently used in their woods where a hidden away hut still remains! Or throw in the flip-flops, buckets and spades and take off on day-trips to the beach. It’s around half an hour to Devon’s popular north coast, where the beaches of Westward Ho! and Bude await. A cyclepath just half a mile away affords you hours of cycling fun! You’ll be glad, when you see the jam-packed campsites of the coastline, that you choose this inland retreat – a genuine ‘refuge’ from the crowds.