Dobella Lane Farm Certificated Site

Simple camping in a farmhouse garden is on offer at Dobella Lane Farm all year round. It’s a six-pitch campsite in the rural flatlands of the Vale of York and is an antidote to both modern life and modern commercial campsites. You won’t find anything fancy or flashy here. And you also won’t be asked to pay for add ons and extras – unless you want to indulge in a jar of jam made from the damsons that grow in your host’s garden. This is good old-fashioned camping for tents, campervans, motorhomes and caravans at a great-value, per pitch price.

The campsite is tucked behind the farmhouse and farm buildings and surrounded by mature trees and hedgerows. It stands out in a landscape of otherwise flat agricultural fields. You can choose from a hard standing pitch near the house or one of the grassy ones among the greenery. Each has electric hook up if you want it. Facilities are simple but sufficient and, importantly, they’re kept clean. For most of the year it’s a single flushing loo and washbasin in an outhouse with an outdoor washing-up sink. In the summer, when this small site is busiest, host Margaret hires a couple of Portable toilets too.

Situated just 45-minutes’ drive from Sheffield, Leeds, Huddersfield, and Hull, Dobella Lane Farm offers an easy weekend escape from the city. And, as it’s not far off the M62, it makes a handy stopover for folk on longer journeys. That conveniently-close road does mean that you will hear the hum of traffic while you’re here and can even watch lorries trundling by – but aside from that road, this is a rural location with all the advantages that brings. You can walk to one of two pubs in the village a mile down the road or you might like to hop in the car to visit the historic market towns of Howden or Snaith. There’s fishing, riverside walks, and watching wildlife – the simple pleasures of the Yorkshire countryside.