Glamping · North Nibley
Hunts Court Huts
Two glamping pods and a shepherd's hut for two, each with its own wood-fired hot tub, on a working farm at Forthay, North Nibley, by the Cotswold Way.
Hot tubs · Walker-friendly
Comfortable, heated huts for couples, each with a private wood-fired hot tub and the Cotswold Way at the farm gate. No dogs, the wifi and phone signal are weak under the hill, and payment is in full and non-refundable when you book.
- Good: Each hut has its own wood-fired hot tub, fire pit and gas barbecue
- Good: Heated and insulated, open all year, with a private bathroom in each
- Good: A shared sauna with a cold shower
- Worth knowing: No pets, except guide dogs
- Worth knowing: Weak wifi and patchy phone signal
- Worth knowing: Paid in full when booked; no refunds on cancellation
About
Hunts Court is a working farm at Forthay, below Nibley Knoll on the edge of North Nibley, with the Cotswold Way passing close by. In three acres of garden, established in 1976, it has three places to stay, each for two: the Robin and Jenny Wren pods and Skylark, a shepherd's hut for adults only with a view over the Severn Vale.
Each is heated and insulated for use all year, with a double bed, a private shower and toilet, a kitchenette with a two-ring hob, a smart TV, and outside a patio, a fire pit, a gas barbecue and a wood-fired hot tub, heated before you arrive. Logs, bedding, towels and robes are included. There is a four-person sauna with a cold shower to share, and breakfast hampers, barbecue packs and hawk walks can be added when you book. The sauna is for over-18s only, and Skylark is reached by steps, so the farm says it may not suit anyone with limited mobility. Disabled parking is listed among the facilities, and bikes can be locked away.
Stays run from two nights, paid in full when booked, with no refund on cancellation. Check-in is from 3pm to 8pm, and arriving later is by arrangement only. Pets are not allowed, apart from guide dogs, and hen and stag parties are not taken. The farm also lets walkers on the Cotswold Way from Dursley to Wotton pitch a tent for £12 a person a night, with toilets, a hot shower, an outdoor kitchen where you can charge a phone and refill water bottles, a washing machine (charged) and an honesty tuck shop; ring or email ahead.
The details
- Rooms
- 3
- Check-in
- 3pm to 8pm
- Check-out
- By 10am
- Features
- Garden or terrace · Views · Parking · Wi-Fi · Bike storage · Spa
- Parking
- One car per hut on site; more by arrangement when you book.
Photos
Inside a pod 
A pod and its patio 
The kitchenette 
Breakfast in the pod
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Forthay Bed and Breakfast 0.3 km away
- The Old Spot Inn, Dursley 2.1 km away
- Dursley Heritage Centre 2.4 km away
- India Zones, Dursley 2.4 km away
Sights nearby
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Tyndale Monument, North Nibley
Sight · Monument · Wotton-under-Edge
The Tyndale Monument is the tower on Nibley Knoll above North Nibley, built in 1866 by S. S. Teulon in memory of William Tyndale, translator of the first printed English New Testament. Grade II*; usually open to climb, free, with a key nearby if locked.
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Brackenbury Ditches hill fort
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Wotton-under-Edge
Brackenbury Ditches is an Iron Age hill fort in Westridge Wood on a spur of the Cotswold Edge above North Nibley, with a great inner rampart 3m high and a ditch 14m wide, unexcavated when surveyed in 1976 and now among the trees. Beside public footpaths through the wood.
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Jubilee Clump, Wotton Hill
Sight · Viewpoint · Wotton-under-Edge
Jubilee Clump is the walled ring of trees on Wotton Hill above Wotton-under-Edge, replanted in 1888 for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee on a spot said to have been first planted after Waterloo: a landmark and viewpoint on the Cotswold Way. Free.
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St Mary's Church, Wotton-under-Edge
Sight · Church · Wotton-under-Edge
St Mary's is Wotton-under-Edge's Grade I parish church, with late thirteenth-century arcades, a six-stage fourteenth-century tower, the brasses of Thomas, Lord Berkeley and his wife, and an organ bought in 1800. Open daily.