Glamping · Minchinhampton
Burnt Ash Farm
A small family-run stables a mile east of Minchinhampton with shepherd huts in an orchard and a small campsite for five caravans or motorhomes.
Family-friendly · Walker-friendly
Simple, cheap and friendly: a working stables where you can sleep in a shepherd hut or bring the caravan. Good for riders, who can bring their horse; the toilets and showers are a short walk from the huts.
- Good: Run by the Bathe family, here since 1912
- Good: Huts with a log burner, power and a kettle; picnic tables and a fire pit outside
- Good: Caravan pitches from £25 a night for two, with electric hook-up
- Worth knowing: Toilets and showers are about 50 metres from the huts
- Worth knowing: Pets in the huts by arrangement only
- Worth knowing: Caravan pitches are for Caravan and Motorhome Club members
About
Burnt Ash Farm is a small family-run stables and livery yard in the hamlet of Burnt Ash, a mile east of Minchinhampton on the road to Cirencester. The Bathe family have run the farm since moving here in 1912; the farmhouse was built in 1935, after subsidence at their earlier farm down the hill at Hyde.
The shepherd huts stand in a small orchard with their stable doors facing south-west towards Minchinhampton. The farm describes two: one with a double bed and a larger family hut with a double, a single and a spare mattress, sleeping four. Each has a log burner, power points and a kettle; bed linen, towels and logs can be provided. Outside there are picnic tables, a barbecue, a fire pit, lanterns and a shed for bikes. The toilets and showers, shared with the stables, are about 50 metres away.
The campsite takes five caravans, motorhomes or trailer tents, for Caravan and Motorhome Club members, at £25 a night for two adults with electric hook-up, or £20 without hook-up or the toilets and showers; some pitches have hard standing. The Caravan and Motorhome Club lists the site as open all year, with arrivals from midday to 8pm. The farm also offers horse B&B and full livery for riders who bring their own horse. Minchinhampton is a mile away, and the club's listing says footpaths lead from the site towards Minchinhampton Common. Book by email or phone.
The details
- Rooms
- 2
- Features
- Garden or terrace · Parking · Bike storage
- Parking
- On the farm, off the Minchinhampton to Cirencester road about 100m past the cattle grid, on the right heading away from Minchinhampton. The Caravan and Motorhome Club warns: no sat nav up Knapp Lane.
Photos
The huts in the orchard 
The farm entrance 
The camping field 
The riding arena
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Lavender Bakehouse and Coffee Shop 1.3 km away
- Westley Farm 1.7 km away
- Cotswold Gliding Club 1.7 km away
- The Crown Inn, Minchinhampton 2.2 km away
Sights nearby
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The Long Stone, Minchinhampton
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Minchinhampton
The Long Stone is a prehistoric standing stone in farmland south-east of Minchinhampton: a slab of oolite 2.1m high, pierced by holes that give it its local name, the Holey Stone. Tradition says children were passed through them as a cure for rickets. A scheduled monument.
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Market House, Minchinhampton
Sight · Historic building · Minchinhampton
Minchinhampton's Market House was built in 1698 by the lord of the manor, Philip Sheppard, for the wool and yarn trade: an open arcade on stone piers with a hall above. Listed Grade II*, it still holds a country market on Wednesday mornings.
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Holy Trinity Church, Minchinhampton
Sight · Church · Minchinhampton
Holy Trinity is Minchinhampton's Grade I parish church, known for its fourteenth-century tower whose spire was cut short in 1563 and crowned with a stone coronet, a south transept lit by a great rose window, and the grave of the astronomer James Bradley.
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The Bulwarks, Minchinhampton
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Minchinhampton
The Bulwarks is a Late Iron Age bank and ditch that sweeps across Minchinhampton Common north and north-west of the town: a bank 10m to 12m wide with a stone face, dated by pottery found in the 1937 excavation. It lies on free National Trust common land.