Camping · Lechlade-on-Thames
Bridge House Campsite
A small family-run touring and camping field on Thames Street, Lechlade, a short walk from the river and the town, with 42 pitches and three bell tents, open from late March until it closes for the winter.
Dog-friendly · Walker-friendly
A plain, friendly field for tents, caravans and campervans, close enough to walk into Lechlade for supper and to the Thames Path. It is on the A361 rather than in the meadows, and dogs are welcome on leads.
- Good: A few minutes' walk to Lechlade and the Thames
- Good: Adults £12 a night, under-5s free, children £6
- Good: Hot showers, an accessible toilet and baby changing
- Worth knowing: Beside the A361; no fires or fire pits
- Worth knowing: Electricity metered and paid on top of the pitch fee
- Worth knowing: No early arrivals and no group bookings without a call first
About
Bridge House Campsite is a small, family-run touring site on Thames Street, the A361, on the edge of Lechlade. The site puts the Thames about 450 metres away and the town's shops and pubs a 10-minute walk.
There are 22 pitches with a 10 amp electric hook-up, 20 without, and three bell tents already set up. Adults pay £12 a night, children aged 5 to 17 £6 and under-5s nothing; an electric pitch adds £3, and the electricity itself goes on a meter you top up on arrival. Each pitch has room for one car; a second car is £5 a night, a gazebo £6, a dog £2 and a day visitor £5. The toilet block has hot showers, an accessible toilet and baby changing, with covered washing-up sinks and water points round the field.
Dogs stay on leads. Fires and fire pits are not allowed, barbecues must be raised off the grass, and it is quiet from 11pm. Groups of two or more bookings travelling together should ring before booking, and the longest stay is 14 nights in any 28 days. The site opens in late March (Thursday 25 March in 2027) and closes for the winter. Leave the car on site for Lechlade and St John's Lock, which follows the river from the town to the first lock.
Opening hours and season
Closed for the winter; reopens on Thursday 25 March 2027, with online booking for 2027 from Friday 8 January 2027.
The details
- Rooms
- 45
- Check-in
- Pitches from 1pm; bell tents from 4pm
- Check-out
- Pitches by 11.30am; bell tents by 10am
- Minimum stay
- Two nights in a bell tent; three nights (Friday to Monday) on bank holiday weekends.
- Features
- Parking
Photos
The Thames near the campsite 
Ha'penny Bridge, Lechlade 
Cows in the meadow, with Lechlade's spire beyond 
A bell tent
Location
Accessibility
- Accessible toilet
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Riverside, Lechlade 0.3 km away
- The New Inn Hotel 0.4 km away
- Lynwood & Co, Lechlade 0.5 km away
- New Wave Brasserie and Bar, Lechlade 0.5 km away
Sights nearby
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River Thames at Lechlade
Sight · River · Lechlade-on-Thames
The young Thames at Lechlade, where the Coln and the Leach join it and the old Thames and Severn Canal met it at the Round House: long the head of the navigable river, with the Thames Path past Halfpenny Bridge to St John's Lock.
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Halfpenny Bridge, Lechlade
Sight · Bridge · Lechlade-on-Thames
The single tall stone arch that carries Thames Street over the Thames at Lechlade, built under a turnpike Act of 1792, with a little square tollhouse on its corner. Named after the halfpenny walkers paid until 1839. Grade II; free.
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St Lawrence's Church, Lechlade
Sight · Church · Lechlade-on-Thames
Lechlade's wool church on the Market Place, rebuilt in Taynton stone in the 1470s, with a spire seen across the Thames meadows and a churchyard that moved Shelley to verse in 1815. Grade I; closed for restoration through 2026, with reopening expected by Christmas.
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Father Thames and St John's Lock
Sight · Monument · Lechlade-on-Thames
Raffaelle Monti's reclining river god, modelled in cement for the Crystal Palace in 1854, beside St John's Lock below Lechlade, the first lock on the Thames. He lay at the river's source from 1958 until vandals drove him here in 1974. Grade II.