Pitches are gently sloping and one tent is permitted per pitch, regardless of size. For additional tents, extra pitches will need to be booked. We do not allocate spaces therefore you will be able to choose where you would like to pitch. As a 10 acre site, there will be plenty of choice. Included in the price is 2 people and a vehicle. Extras such as people, vehicles, dogs and gazebos can be added.

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Tent Pitch

Gazebo

Bring a Car on the Pitch, boat or trailer

Car Parking on Pitch

Motorbike

Donkey Down has unfurnished bell tents which include 4 people and a vehicle in the price. Extras such as people, vehicles and dogs can be added.

Bell Tent Hire

Only in its third year of running, you’d be mistaken for thinking that lovely Donkey Down campsite had been nestled into the Dorset Coastline for years.  Set on a gently sloping site on the Jurassic Inland Coast path, just above the charming village of Sutton Poyntz, Donkey Down is part of a working organic livestock farm.  It’s tents only here, and has the festival feel of a pop-up campsite but the calm vibe of back to nature wild camping.  If you don’t want to bring your own tent, they have some Bell Tents for hire.  

Choose your own pitch anywhere on the grassy field (don’t panic - there are enough awesome views to go around), and set up your tent looking over Weymouth Bay or the rolling Dorset countryside; they limit the number of pitches, so there is plenty of open space for everyone. No electricity means that dark starry nights are on the cards for those evenings around the campfire.  There are eco toilets and a block of six shower cubicles, drinking water is available and there are also sinks for washing up and a small onsite shop selling essentials.   

The South Dorset Ridgeway passes through Donkey Down, a 17-mile ancient track running along the south coast.  This ridge of high land has been used for thousands of years by people and several Stone Age burial mounds can be seen along here, one in Donkey Down itself.  The Ridgeway is considered as important as Stonehenge for the scale of monuments and what they tell us about Neolithic life, but remains one of Dorsets best kept secrets!

The location of Donkey Down is part of its brilliance.  Walkers are in for an absolute treat, with hiking routes all along the coast to the famous White Horse at Osmington and beyond.  Family-friendly Weymouth beach is a 10-minute drive away, boasting lovely shallow waters, golden sands, donkey rides, and a small amusement park.  Weymouth harbour is a great place to watch the boats come in, scoff some delicious fresh fish and chips, and even do a spot of crabbing off the side.  

Water Sports enthusiasts will love Bowleaze Cove and Chesil Beach (the bit between Weymouth and Portland) for awesome surfing, kitesurfing, kayaking, and paddleboarding.  Sandworld, the most underrated attraction on the south coast (in my humble opinion), lies on the other side of Weymouth at Lodmoor Nature reserve.  Run by the same family of sculptors for years, this place has giant sand sculptures of everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Scooby Doo and it is gobsmacking.  Also at Lodmoor is a Sealife centre and a miniature train, so you can take a picnic and make a day of it.  Further afield, Abbotsbury Gardens, Bridport, West Bay, Dorchester and Portland Bill lighthouse are all a good trip out if you have time.  

It is worth booking a few nights at Donkey Down to fully appreciate the amazing Jurassic coast; you will not run out of things to do.  And after a busy day, Donkey Down campsite is the perfect place to retreat to - the campers who have stayed at this new campsite have only amazing things to say about it.   This gem is only open for 28 days (from 27th May until 19th June in 2022) so don’t miss out!


Donkey Down

New for 2020, Donkey Down is situated on the South Dorset Ridgeway. A peaceful 10 acre site enjoying stunning views over Weymouth Bay, Portland and the surrounding countryside. A gently sloping site situated on the Jurassic Inland Coast Path. Donkey Down is part of a working organic farm and home to a neolithic tumulus, there are rare flora and fauna to be found. 

Donkey Down Campsite

The scenic village of Moreton, a tranquil site in the very heart of Dorset, offers a labyrinth of walks, adjacent to Moreton’s Walled Garden, cafe, riding center and woodland (with guests having unlimited access to the grounds/play area), ensuring that you have a rural but perfectly placed location for all local attractions, amenities & good pubs.

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Most folk will appreciate that The Walled Garden Campsite is so close to the Jurassic Coast including the iconic Durdle Door & Lulworth Cove (6 miles away). However, we offer such a variety of things to do within the gardens and the Moreton Estate, that many campers lose themselves in the enchantment of the venue.

We offer a fantastic kids play area with plenty of seating for adults, conveniently located next to the farm animals & Kitchen Garden, giving you panoramic supervising vision – A must at all times!

Not only are the grounds one of the most tranquil within the County, but it’s steeped in history with links to T E Lawrence, one of Britain’s finest war heroes, an Oxford Scholar & Close friend of Winston Churchill… better known to most as Lawrence of Arabia, who now rests in the village’s peaceful cemetery of St Nicholas’ Church (regardless of your religion or spiritual beliefs – this is a must-see just for its fine architecture and beautiful stain-glassed windows).

The scenic village of Moreton, a tranquil site in the very heart of Dorset, offers a labyrinth of walks, adjacent to Moreton’s Walled Garden, cafe, riding center and woodland (with guests having unlimited access to the grounds/play area), ensuring that you have a rural but perfectly placed location for all local attractions, amenities & good pubs, including The Seven Stars, The Frampton Arms, The Countryman, The Wise Man, & The Black Dog to name a few.

If you don’t fancy the 15-minute drive to the World Famous Jurassic Coast for a dip, then simply walk 2 minutes to the village Ford – Dorset’s biggest Ford, for a cooling off and fun for all the family.


Most folk will appreciate The Walled Garden Campsite is so close to the Jurassic Coast including the iconic Durdle Door & Lulworth Cove (6 miles away). However, we offer such a variety of things to do within the gardens and the Moreton Estate, that many campers lose themselves in the enchantment of the venue.

We offer a fantastic kids play area with plenty of seating for adults, conveniently located next to the farm animals & Kitchen Garden, giving you panoramic supervising vision – A MUST AT ALL TIMES!!

The Walled Garden Camping

The Lodge is a mobile home that has wonderful countryside views overlooking the field with sheep, Alpaca, and horses.

The open plan sitting room is well furnished with a 3-seater comfy reclining sofa, flat-screen TV/ with a dining table overlooking the fields. The kitchen is modern and well equipped with a gas oven and hob, a microwave fridge, and a freezer. There is a bathroom with a shower.

The Lodge has one double room with on-suite access to the bathroom and a second bedroom equipped with two single beds, this is suited to children as space is limited. If 3 adults wish to stay, then one of the beds can be removed to give sufficient space.

There is parking for up to two cars on the private driveway, a garden with a patio area, a washing line, a BBQ, and a table and chairs. In a separate utility room behind Cherry and Willow Barn, you will find clothes washing facilities including a washing machine, tumble dryer.

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The Lodge

We are now able to offer a modern well-equipped Bailey Unicorn 4 berth twin axel caravan for hire here at Nutley Farm.

Heath View comes kitted out with everything you should need for an enjoyable stay, from a well-equipped kitchen to bedding and towels.

Even if you have never caravanned before this is a great opportunity to enjoy the beautiful surroundings with everything set up for you.

Facilities​

   Sleek modern design and styling throughout

   CD Player/Radio

   Flatscreen TV with built-in DVD player

   Shower

   Toilet

   Blown Air Central Heating System

   Laminate Floor

   4 Berth – Fixed double bed and the front seating area converts to a Double Bed or 2 Singles

   3-Burner Gas Hob, Grill, Oven, Microwave

   Fridge Freezer


Heath View Caravan

Nutley Farm is in a superb location for a relaxing break in the Dorset Purbecks and a great place for children and dogs. Set within the Tadnol Heath Nature Reserve close to the spectacular World Heritage Jurassic Coastline famous for Lulworth Cove or Durdle Door and in easy reach of Moreton, Corfe Castle, Wareham, Dorchester and the fascinating Tynenham Village. There are some excellent pubs which offer superb dining and a highly rated village shop close by.

With wi-fi and modern facilities these beautiful cottages have a four star rating with visit England. The cottages are light and airy in summer and warm and welcoming in winter with exposed beams and underfloor heating.

Guests that book for 4 or more nights are welcomed with a hamper of fresh produce from the farm including eggs from our chickens. Visitors can enjoy the animals which include visiting and helping to feed our Reindeer, you can also experience an alpaca firsthand by taking these lovely animals for a walk around the farm. Our cottages are also available to be rented together to provide accommodation for extended family or friends.

Nutley Farm Barns

The Milly shepherd hut includes bedding, a log Burner, electric supply, toilet facilities nearby, small patio, firepit and a full english at no extra charge. 

Towels aren't provided please bring your own. 

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Milly - Shepherd's Hut

You are welcome to bring your tents or caravans and stay overnight, for a week or ten days and enjoy our beautiful surroundings.

Grass Pitch With Electric Hook-Up

 Grass Pitch (No Electric Hook-up)

The Alice shepherd hut includes bedding, a log Burner, electric supply, toilet facilities nearby, small patio, firepit and a full english at no extra charge. 

Towels aren't provided please bring your own. 

Alice - Shepherd's Hut

Set in its own 9 acres of land. Steve, Gill and family invite you to discover all that is best in one of Dorset's most beautiful countryside Inns.

You are welcome to bring your tents or caravans and stay overnight, for a week or ten days and enjoy our beautiful surroundings.


Seven Stars Inn

**8 luxury Bell Tents with comfy beds, real mattresses and fluffy duvets. **
Each spacious Bell Tent can sleep 4 people and 2 dogs. 
As well as interior lighting, there is outside seating and fairy lights. 
Our newly refurbished shower & toilet facilities are close by, together with washing-up facilities.
The local village pub is an easy level walk across a small field. Freshly-prepared breakfasts and evening meals are available daily throughout your stay. 

****Places to see and things to do!****

- 	The North Dorset Trailway - 5 miles
- 	Sturminster Newton Mill - 5 miles 
-   Sherborne Old Castle - 5 miles
-   Fleet Air Arm Museum - 12 miles
-   Stourhead - 13 miles
- 	Ringstead Bay - 28 miles
- 	Weymouth Beach - 29 miles


Bell Tent

Bring up to 2 well behaved dogs for £20 each.

**Luxury rural glamping in north Dorset. **
Secluded site  a short level walk across a field! 
Family friendly. Well-behaved dogs are welcome.

8 luxury Bell Tents with comfy beds, real mattresses and fluffy duvets.
Each spacious Bell Tent can sleep 4 people and 2 dogs. As well as interior lighting, there is outside seating and fairy lights. 
2 Nights minimum stay: £250
Each additional night: £55


Our newly refurbished shower & toilet facilities are close by, together with washing-up facilities.

Starlight Glamping is situated in a secluded site on the edge of Stourton Caundle in the idyllic Blackmore Vale, overlooking beautiful fields.

 
The Trooper Inn is a 17th century independent pub offering a range of real ales, west country cider and more!
Starlight Glamping is set in the heart of Thomas Hardy’s ‘Vale of Little Dairies’.
We are within easy reach of the historic market towns of Sturminster Newton, Sherborne and Shaftesbury.


We are close to the borders of Somerset and Wiltshire and an hour’s drive from the spectacular Jurassic Coast.
With a network of local footpaths, quiet lanes and the North Dorset Trailway nearby, there’s plenty to explore.


Off the beaten track, it’s a land of misty mornings, stunning walks, abundant wildlife and birdsong, not to mention glorious sunsets and star-filled skies.
Stourton Caundle is a small village with a great personality and charm. There is lots of room for parking and plenty of space for the kids to roam. 
An ideal base for touring and exploring Dorset and all it has to offer.



Starlight Glamping

THORNCOMBE FARM
Situated in the heart of the Dorset countryside, Thorncombe Farm offers a warm, friendly welcome. Our mostly flat campsite has beautiful views into the valley and comes with all the amenities you would expect from a small site, with the add bonus of fresh free range eggs and home produced meat, burgers and sausages!

Even climate that is damp detract from the breathtaking grounds and lake at Kingston Maurward Gardens and Animal Park.This household friendly day out is ideal for little ones and it will not hurt you wallet either! There are therefore pets that are many see including goats, ponies, plenty of diverse forms of wild birds, pigs, ducks and Ben and Jerry the two alpacas! The grade 2 detailed gardens are great available spaces where little children (and big ones too) can run free.The 35 acres function lakes and gardens from diverse eras, designs and countries such as the Garden that is japanese and Elizabethan Walled Garden.  The Park Cafi sells snacks, light refreshments and coffee that is fresh during term time the Coach home Cafi, which acts hot dishes, salads and treats, is available beside the Main House.An impressive and enjoyable day trip for all your family!

Kingston Maurward

Explore what Kingston Maurward has to offer from our vibrant and growing land-based College to hiring the manor house for conferences and events.

Kingston Maurward Gardens & Animal Park

Manor Farm

A unique blend of fun for all the family - try your hand at milking, visit the animals and explore this beautiful setting


Manor Farm

The Dorset Teddy Bear Museum is Dorchester's frankly household that is unmissable, with Edward Bear and his or her own group of people sized bears, set around Teddy Bear home in a series of adorable settings and poses. Fantastic for youngsters' picture opportunities!Every bear that ever there is from vaguely unnerving thread-bears that are antiquesee whatever they did there?) through to television that is modern are typical waiting to welcome you in this enchanting Teddy Bear Museum that may have all children big and small hankering for a cuddle!Be yes to go to the museum's charming period shop stocking classy brands of seriously cute material: Steiff Teddy Bear, Merrythought, Dean's, Gund and so many more. Bring your pocket money!It's particularly worth visiting in the run up to Christmas time them Christmas time jobs doing too while they redecorate the whole invest highly festive fashion, placing little costumes in the fellows and providing! Beware though, it comes to an end regarding the 13th December and is then closed before the 26th, so get organised and slide in early although it begins in the 13th November!

The Teddy Bear Museum Dorchester

Welcome to Dorset's enchanting Teddy Bear Museum in Dorchester, a fun family museum that will charm and delight teddy bear lovers of all ages.

Dorset Teddy Bear Museum

The Dinosaur Museum is about having a roaring time that is great! It is unique in that it is the only museum that is british solely to dinos with skeletons, life-size reconstructions and a few scaly surprises.Take a walk regarding the prehistoric part by listening out for a Triceratops, fulfilling a Stegosaurus and smelling the breathing of a T-Rex - pee-yew! Your team of aspiring archaeologists will learn loads from the pioneers of fossil finding movie stars that are including their industry, Mary Anning and Richard Owen. Get right up close with actual fossils from the Jurassic Coast, including heads, eggs as well as poo!this museum that is award-winning filled with fun for kids with a quiz, a lot of interactive elements, puzzles and an opportunity to make your discoveries within the excavation pit. Then if all which wasn't quite bold sufficient, place your fingers in the secret feely package.

Welcome to The Dinosaur Museum

The Dinosaur Museum in Dorchester, close to Dorset's Jurrassic Coast is the only museum in the UK solely devoted to dinosaurs and their fascinating world.

The Dinosaur Museum

The Tutankhamun that is marvellous exhibition meticulously recreations associated with the infamous Tutankhamun's major treasures, whenever we can done within their initial materials! It has been extensively showcased in several television programmes and major documentaries on Tutankhamun shown throughout the world and is an easy method that is excellent get children enthusiastic about history. As well as the cool the ante chambers and burial chamber of Tutankhamun's tomb are painstakingly recreated along with all the tomb's regal furniture and treasures making it feasible yours to have the sweetness and amazement of discovering the tomb exactly like Howard Carter did as he discovered it back 1922 for you and. Except without concern with curses! The Tutankhamun event features amongst a great many other treasures that are wonderful The Golden Mask of Tutankhamun, The Golden Throne of Tutankhamun, Tutankhamun's Mummy (eek!), The Golden figure of Tutankhamun the Harpooner and a selection of Tutankhamun's jewels is also shown, because what kid does not love a bit of treasure!

The Tutankhamun Exhibition

The Tutankhamun Exhibition, A spectacular recreation of the tomb and treasures of King Tutankhamun in Dorchester.

Thorncombe Farm

Higher Bockhampton, Dorchester, West Dorset DT2 8QH, England

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Accommodations nearby

Donkey Down Campsite

The Walled Garden Camping

Nutley Farm Barns

Seven Stars Inn

Starlight Glamping

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Kingston Maurward Gardens & Animal Park

Manor Farm

Dorset Teddy Bear Museum

The Dinosaur Museum

The Tutankhamun Exhibition

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