Glamping by destination

National parks, coastlines and named regions — the places people actually plan trips around. Each one is a catchment rather than a boundary, so it includes the valley and village sites just outside the park line, which is usually where the good ones are.

• Jurassic Coast4595 miles of World Heritage coastline from Exmouth to Studland: fossil beaches, Durdle Door and a huge concentration of Dorset glamping behind the cliffs.Dorset
• New Forest37Ponies on the road, heathland in every direction and the Solent coast on the doorstep. One of the densest clusters of dog-friendly glamping in the country.Hampshire · Dorset · Isle of Wight
• South Downs35Chalk downland running from Winchester to Eastbourne — England’s newest national park, and the closest proper countryside to London.Sussex · Hampshire · Surrey
• Peak District28Britain’s first national park and the most accessible one for half the country — gritstone edges and limestone dales within an hour of Manchester, Sheffield and Derby.Derbyshire · Staffordshire · West Yorkshire
• Cotswolds27Honey-stone villages, big skies over the wolds and more shepherd’s huts per acre than anywhere else in England. The catchment spans Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Oxfordshire.Gloucestershire · Worcestershire · Oxfordshire
• Wye Valley22The gorge between Hereford and Chepstow — Tintern Abbey, Symonds Yat and canoe water, with sites on both the English and Welsh banks.Herefordshire · Gloucestershire · South Wales
• Lake District18England’s biggest national park, and the one most people picture when they think of a fell-side pod with the door open. Sites cluster in the valleys — Borrowdale, Eskdale, the Kentmere side — rather than on the high ground.Cumbria
• Eryri (Snowdonia)18Wales’s mountain heartland — Yr Wyddfa, the Glyderau and the Rhinogydd — with the Llŷn and Anglesey coast a short drive west.North Wales · Anglesey
• Brecon Beacons17Bannau Brycheiniog — flat-topped sandstone peaks, waterfall country around Ystradfellte and an International Dark Sky Reserve over the whole park.Powys · Herefordshire · South Wales
• North York Moors17Heather moorland dropping to the Yorkshire coast at Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay. Dark skies inland, fishing villages on the edge.North Yorkshire
• Dartmoor17Granite tors, wild ponies and the only place in England with a legal right to wild camp — though the sites below come with a proper bed and a hot shower.Devon
• Pembrokeshire Coast17The only coastal national park in Britain: 186 miles of path, puffins on Skomer and beaches that hold up against anywhere in Europe.Pembrokeshire
• Isle of Skye16The Cuillin, the Quiraing and the Trotternish ridge. Accommodation is tight on Skye and books out early — the catchment includes the mainland around Kyle.Scottish Highlands
• Forest of Dean15Ancient oak and beech between the Severn and the Wye, with sculpture trails, old mine workings and a strong run of woodland glamping.Herefordshire · Gloucestershire
• Yorkshire Dales14Drystone walls, limestone scars and the Three Peaks. The catchment reaches into Lancashire and south Cumbria, where a lot of the best Dales glamping actually sits.Lancashire · Cumbria · North Yorkshire
• Norfolk Broads13Britain’s largest protected wetland — 125 miles of navigable water, big skies and birdlife, with the north Norfolk coast within reach.Norfolk
• Sherwood Forest13Ancient oaks, the Major Oak itself and the Dukeries estates, with the Peak District fringe forming the western edge of the catchment.Derbyshire · Nottinghamshire · Lincolnshire
• Cairngorms12Britain’s largest national park: sub-arctic plateau, Caledonian pine forest and some of the darkest skies in the UK. Sites spread across Speyside, Deeside and Highland Perthshire.Scottish Highlands · Perthshire · Aberdeenshire
• Loch Lomond12Loch Lomond and the Trossachs — Scotland’s first national park, forty minutes from Glasgow, and one of the strongest hot-tub clusters in the country.Stirlingshire · Glasgow and Clyde · Argyll and Bute
• Northumberland Coast12Bamburgh, Lindisfarne and empty white-sand beaches, with the darkest skies in England a short drive inland.Northumberland

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