Dog-friendly camping in Hainault Forest

Looking to camp with your pets in Hainault Forest? You’ll find over 930 pet-friendly sites here—most tucked among ancient oaks or edging open fields, all within a region that rewards both walkers and four-legged companions. Prices start at just £12 a night, with an average around £55. Expect straightforward facilities: toilets, showers, and plenty of space for pets to roam. Hiking trails wind through the woodland, and there’s swimming and horseback-riding nearby if you fancy a change of pace. Top picks from seasoned campers include Penn Meadow Farm (114 reviews), The Barn KT9 (111 reviews), and Hook Farm Campsite (105 reviews). Don’t forget to bag your dog’s rubbish—locals take pride in keeping the forest tidy.

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Top-rated campgrounds

Looking to camp with your pets in Hainault Forest? You’ll find over 930 pet-friendly sites here—most tucked among ancient oaks or edging open fields, all within a region that rewards both walkers and four-legged companions. Prices start at just £12 a night, with an average around £55. Expect straightforward facilities: toilets, showers, and plenty of space for pets to roam. Hiking trails wind through the woodland, and there’s swimming and horseback-riding nearby if you fancy a change of pace. Top picks from seasoned campers include Penn Meadow Farm (114 reviews), The Barn KT9 (111 reviews), and Hook Farm Campsite (105 reviews). Don’t forget to bag your dog’s rubbish—locals take pride in keeping the forest tidy.

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Top-rated campgrounds

1. Plum Camping in May Tree Orchard

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8 units · Tents, Glamping · Goudhurst, Kent, South East England

Simple camping and comfortable glamping amongst organic fruit trees, wild flowers and woodland, bordering an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, with some of the darkest night skies in Europe. In the beautiful High Weald of Kent, Tash and Nick have been running May Tree Orchard's low-impact, nature-friendly, seasonal campsite, Plum Camping, for the last 5 years. The Soil Association certified organic land is full of wild flowers and surrounded by woodland and other orchards. Electricity and hot water for showers and washing up is solar generated. So you can charge your phone if necessary, but we'd recommend stargazing and enjoying the quiet warmth of friends and family around an evening fire instead. Bring your own tent, stay in the delightful hand-made shepherd’s hut or stylish caravan, or hire the whole May Tree Orchard space. Numbers are kept low here so that there is always plenty of room for everyone, as well as peace and quiet. The campsite is an hour and a half drive from London and a 20 min walk to the sleepy and pretty village of Goudhurst, with pubs selling great food and two local shops for self-catering. There are also two excellent farm shops within walking distance. Close to May Tree Orchard, there are walks via Sissinghurst, Scotney and Bodiam Castle, and water activities on the River Rother and at Bewl Water. Bedgebury National Pinetum and Forest is a ten-minute drive from the campsite and the coast around Hastings and Rye is just over 30 minutes. An amazing independent food business, Growing Communities, sells pears, apples and plums grown at the orchard in their box scheme serving North and South London, and you can also buy them from the Pear Necessities stall at Stoke Newington Farmers Market. Delicious apple juice and tasty chutney made from the organic apples grown in the orchard are available to purchase on site, as well as plum preserve and orchard plums.

2. Tomkins Farm

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42 units · Tents, Motorhomes, Glamping · North Chailey, England

Relaxed camping beside a lake on an East Sussex farm, with alpacas, llamas, and camels

3. Sunnyside Pop Up Camping

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2 units · Tents, Motorhomes · England

We are a pop-up campsite, which means we are open most weekends during the summer with some longer stints at the beginning and at the end of our season. We offer different activities each weekend, varying from damper bread making to wild food walks and bush craft skills. We also celebrate Midsummer (Juhannus) in Finnish style! 22nd May - 31st May - Opening: Sauna hot all Week 😃🙌🏻 19th - 21st June Summer Solstice/Juhannus ☀️☀️☀️ 26th - 28th June - Fairy Garden Making 🧚🏻🧚🏻‍♀️🧚🏻‍♂️ 3rd -5th July - Damper Bread 🥨 10th-12th July - DJ BBQ 🎶🍗 17th -19th July -Whittling 🥄🔪 24th - 26th July - Wellness weekend 🧘🧘‍♂️🧘‍♀️ 31st July - 3rd August - Wand Making and 🪄🧚‍♂️ 7th - 9th August - Communal Curry Night 🥘 14th - 16th August - Fire Making for Kids 🔥 20th - 23rd August - Wild Food Walk 🍄‍🟫🫐 27th - 31st August - Closing Week ☀️🔥🥂🍾 FINNISH SAUNA We light our authentic Finnish sauna on Saturday evenings for all to use. Otherwise you can book the Sauna area for private use on Friday nights and Saturday day. Do give us more than an hours notice, it is wood heated and it takes a while to get hot! CAMPFIRES We love campfires and see them as an integral part of the camping experience. Campfires bring people together at the end of the day, to cook, socialise and relax. The smell of the wood smoke at twilight and the excitement on the kids faces when the marshmallows come out are bound to set you up for a perfect night away from the city lights! We sell crates of firewood, and hire fire pits for you to use during your stay. MUSIC The Lower Fields are for quiet camping. We would like it to be the perfect place for children to sleep and adults to chitchat around the campfires. On the Upper Field and near the Centre Camp we do allow you to listen and enjoy any music. But please respect your fellow campers! We want everybody to be able to enjoy their weekend without being disturbed. We ask for quiet across the whole site from 11.30pm. Overall we are quite a sociable site, with things happening at center camp every weekend. and a public campfire to sit around for a few mins after your sauna. We have a great area for large family groups. We pride ourselves on helping new campers get the most out of the experience come and hay hello at center camp.

4. Wingrave Farm

1 unit · Glamping · England

Wake up to breathtaking views of the Buckinghamshire countryside, offering a tranquil escape from city life, engage in some outdoor activities like hiking, stargazing or spot birds of prey swooping close by. We rent log burners and sell logs on site, we have BBQ and singing around the campfire. yoga, meditation and grounding

5. The Hop Farm

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50 units · Tents, Motorhomes · Brenchley, England

The Hop Farm is set in 500 acres of unspoilt Kent countryside, known as the Garden of England. Flat grass fields and surrounded by private woodland and also fields abut the River Medway, ideal for paddleboarding and kayaking. Campers have access to newly refurbished facilities, state of the art showers, toilets and washing facilities. Raised BBQ's and raised firepits are permitted - we also rent these out (subject to availability). It's the ideal location for a peaceful escape with endless skies providing memorable sunsets and stars unhindered by artificial light. SITE RULES: Admission is only permitted after registering at reception. At least one of the party members must be aged 21 or over. Under 18s must be accompanied by their parents or legal guardians. Group bookings of 6 or more adults are not permitted (couples and immediate family members excepted). No hen/stag parties permitted. Single-sex bookings of 4 or more people (couples and immediate family members excepted) are not permitted.

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Lea Marie

September 2025

Tent

2 nights at The Hop Farm

The camping field is fairly big and basically bare (as can be seen on the pictures). Everything went as expected, toilets and showers were functional (even though not the cleanest and prettiest but that is to be expected from a camp of this size I suppose). Since the field is so big, it was quite windy without anything to break the winds but otherwise all good.

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Bob

August 2025

3 m Class B

Weekend Trip to Tomkins Farm

Friendly welcome. Good space. Hot water in wash up and showers. Weather changed so I baled one day early so didn't get to try their Saturday night pizzas which sounded fab!

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William

August 2025

Tent

With kids

Weekend Trip to Tomkins Farm

Phil, family, and staff made us all feel extremely welcome (especially the kids). The showers and facilities were great 😅. The breakfast rolls and the pizzas were really tasty and very handy as we had a lot of rain on one day 😋. Having a forest play area for kids as well as llamas nearby makes it an ideal family camp site.

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Benjamin

August 2025

Tent

Weekend Trip to Sunnyside Pop Up Camping

Very friendly, lovely area, great amenities, if travelling on foot enter from the north of the property, rather than the hilly main road as there is no pavement. Put in RH19 4NB and walk up the field.

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Nick

August 2025

Tent

With kids

Weekend Trip to Plum Camping in May Tree Orchard

This is a beautiful and quiet place to camp. We had a group of families, had our own space in the orchard that felt very separated from other groups. The location is peaceful with a beautiful view. The toilets were clean and well maintained, and we loved the solar shower looking into the woods. Natasha and Nick were incredibly welcoming and always available for any needs, and their kitten Little Cat was adorable. The site had table tennis, some other games, and lovely walks around it. The local pub did a great dinner. We'll be back!

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Lydia

August 2025

2 nights at Plum Camping in May Tree Orchard

This was a wonderful place - a really idyllic setting and superb shepherd’s hut. Super cosy with its own secluded area and kitchen with everything you need. The orchard is beautiful, Natasha and Nick have done amazing job in making this a really special place. One of our favourite ever UK stays!

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Chris

August 2025

Tent

With pets

Weekend Trip to Plum Camping in May Tree Orchard

Puns aside, we enjoyed a really unique and magical two nights here, sleeping between the apple trees and enjoying the incredible skies above. The owners were as sweet and lovely as the Apple juice, and the solar shower was a brilliant experience, tucked away and private from the campsite, but open plan and facing the woodland behind. We shall be back!

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Jamie

August 2025

Tent

With kids

Weekend Trip to Plum Camping in May Tree Orchard

What a wonderful location & such fantastic hosts. We had a glorious 3 days camping.

Chris

August 2025

Tent

Weekend Trip to Tomkins Farm

Have stayed here before and would again. Really well organised from logs to food, good facilities including the open air showers. staff all really friendly. space is perfectly located for walk (to lots of well placed pubs) pitches are large and no space is very far from the facilities. if i had one request for next time it would be better coffee but that’s a bit picky! really good, reasonable camp for couples and families.

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Alison

August 2025

Tent

With pets

Weekend Trip to Plum Camping in May Tree Orchard

We really enjoyed our bank holiday weekend stay at Plum Camping. We had a lovely spacious pitch amongst silver birch trees at the end of the orchard and close to the campsite amenities. Natasha and Nick were very welcoming and helpful, and the weather was favourable. We'd love to come back!

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Penelope

August 2025

Weekend Trip to Plum Camping in May Tree Orchard

My partner and I had the most amazing one night stay here (wish we had longer) at Plum Farm, surrounded by nature and wonderful peace and quiet. We had a lovely welcome from Natasha and Tim who are super attentive lovely people. We enjoyed using the firepit to cook our dinner on, we brought most of our own utensils but its all there for you to use if needed. Was great to have running water and the gas hob to use too - Love an outdoors kitchen! Also loved the home grown, hand picked flowers that were there for us too., we were also very lucky to be given a bottle of Apple juice from the apples grown on the Orchard, definitely recommend buying a bottle if there's any available. The shepherds hut was cosy and accommodating, was great to have the black out blinds which was a pleasant surprise, had a great night sleep. I would love to come back next year. Thank you both for having us :)

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David

August 2025

Tent

Weekend Trip to Plum Camping in May Tree Orchard

Fantastic little secluded spot among the orchard, Hosts were incredibly welcoming, even gave us a lovely bottle of home made apple juice which was amazing and went down really well with the group at the skiing event we attended the next day.

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Jassey

August 2025

Tent

1 night at Tomkins Farm

Hot water in shower and sinks. Drinking water a bit cloudy. Lovely and peaceful. Nice walks nearby. Quite surreal with the camels in the distance! Alpacas were sweet but a little far for petting. Not windy as sheltered location. A very large area with many pitches near alpacas, the camels or trees as you prefer. Completely safe and enclosed. Manager came to offer firewood which is available at any time for the permanent fire pits. Bring your own logs

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Neil

August 2025

Tent

1 night at Plum Camping in May Tree Orchard

A back to basics site in a beautiful location. The owners are very friendly and I felt instantly welcome. The whole experience was just what I needed. Space in nature to unwind. The orchard is pleasant and it appears a good crop this year!

Jamie

August 2025

Tent

With kids

1 night at The Hop Farm

Superb, well located and peaceful. Large site with multiple areas to pitch up. The rental fire pit was a nice touch. I would return.

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Joana

August 2025

Tent

With kids

Weekend Trip to The Hop Farm

Great place, and have a lot of room with you wanted to have a private space.

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Camilla

August 2025

Tent

With kids

Weekend Trip to Plum Camping in May Tree Orchard

Beautiful, peaceful campsite amongst plum and apple trees. We were there during the (amazingly plentiful) plum harvest and there were delicious plums and plum products to buy. We loved the fact that everything was designed to be low-impact on the land, with very clean compostable toilets and a lovely al fresco, solar-powered shower. The owners, Natasha and Nick, were delightful - friendly, helpful and generous. We plan to return soon!

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Abbie

August 2025

Tent

With pets

Weekend Trip to Plum Camping in May Tree Orchard

Our first night away in our new campervan was at Plum Camping, and it couldn’t have been more perfect. The orchard setting is so peaceful, and the whole place has a beautifully relaxed vibe. The eco-friendly showers and toilets were spotless and a lovely touch. The hosts were incredibly friendly and welcoming, and the fresh apple juice was honestly the best I’ve ever had! Stargazing under the clear night sky was magical. This spot has a special place in our hearts now, and we can’t wait to come back

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Oliver

August 2025

Tent

Group trip

Weekend Trip to Sunnyside Pop Up Camping

Fantastic spot nice and close to London. Owners are friendly and helped us with a BBQ / fire pit. Field is big and loads of space per camp. We will be back soon!

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Karin

August 2025

Tent

Weekend Trip to Plum Camping in May Tree Orchard

One of the most beautiful spots we’ve ever camped in. Nick and Natasha were responsive to our queries in advance and friendly and helpful once we had arrived. This is a back-to-basics, off-grid experience - but nothing beats a campfire at night and waking to birdsong in the morning.