Situated in Beards Oak Wood, which is 150m from the Farm Shop, Café and Pub, our rustic cabins are the perfect rural get away without the effort of camping – think of them as wooden tents with a proper bed and wood burner. 

Cabins are suitable for two adults and two children - each cabin has a double bed and camp beds can be provided for children (under 2 stay for free). A wood burner is in every cabin, ideal to for those chilly evenings. Logs can be purchased from the Farm Shop. Well behaved dogs are welcome. There is room for one car to be parked next to each cabin.

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Beards Oak Wood Cabin

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Made locally from the best British Hardwood by expert Charcoal makers using traditional methods from fully sustainable woodlands.

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Foggage Cabin & Foggage Field is a secluded cabin located in its own one-acre private field which is perfect for family groups. The views are amazing. Located in a lovely spot on the farm approximately 10 minutes from the main farm complex, there are two compost loos and a gas shower located in Foggage Field near the cabin for your private use.  Price includes Cabin and Field Hire - campers pay on top - price per person, per night.

Our rustic cabins are the perfect rural get away without the effort of camping – think of them as wooden tents with a proper bed and wood burner. Foggage Cabin is slightly smaller than the other cabins accommodating one small camp bed, plus the double bed, so two adults and one child in total. Under 2's stay for free.

A wood burner is in every cabin, ideal to for those chilly evenings. Logs can be purchased from the Farm Shop. Well behaved dogs are welcome. Parking is in Squitmore Field which is a minutes walk from Foggage Cabin.

Foggage Cabin & Foggage Field Hire (secluded cabin, includes own private field for groups)

Badgers Cabin is located in Upany Field accessible by the Sunken Lane – it’s away from other cabins and has great views over the fields. It is not unusual to wake up to a view of sheep outside the window and it is located near the badger sett so perfect as a hide to wait and see what comes by.

Badgers Cabin is suitable for two adults and two children - it has a double bed and camp beds can be provided for children (under 2 stay for free). A wood burner is in every cabin, ideal to for those chilly evenings. Logs can be purchased from the Farm Shop. Well behaved dogs are welcome. There is room for one car to be parked next to each cabin.

Badgers Cabin

Pits Wood was planted in 2003, it’s a very pretty area to stay and an opportunity to see young woodland growing with developing ecosystems. Accessed through Vicarage Field and nestled amongst surrounding fields, Pits Wood is located near where many of the farm animals live so don’t be surprised to hear piglets grunting or chickens clucking. The wood is approx. 200m to the farm and access is possible with a car when fields are dry.

Our rustic cabins are the perfect rural get away without the effort of camping – think of them as wooden tents with a proper bed and wood burner. Cabins are suitable for two adults and two children - each cabin has a double bed and camp beds can be provided for children (under 2 stay for free).

A wood burner is in every cabin, ideal to for those chilly evenings. Logs can be purchased from the Farm Shop. Well behaved dogs are welcome. There is room for one car to be parked next to each cabin.

Pits Wood Cabin

The ESSENTIALS Bell Tent package includes hire of a spacious canvas Bell Tent for up to 4 nights. Suitable for 2 adults and up to 3 children, the bell tent is not glamped and remember to bring your own bedding for this option :-).

As standard the bell tent comes with one double bed and two single mattresses (complete with new waterproof disposable mattress covers) and a third single camp bed can be provided on request. A small rustic wooden crate is provided for storage.

The farm is a place for quiet camping and enjoyment of the countryside and no amplified music of any kind is allowed at on site. It’s essential that prior to booking you familiarise yourself with our Camping Rules & Regulations, as there are important points you will need to know as part of your stay with us, thank you. 

Our bell tents are in two set locations around the farm - Pits Wood which is closer to the main farm & the more secluded Squitmore Spring Wood which is 5 minutes drive from the main farmyard (view map HERE) - and cannot be moved. Cars can be parked next to the bell tents. Occasionally, we do move the tents although this will incur an additional charge. Please contact us to ensure this is feasible before booking.

Hire of 5m Canvas Bell Tent for up to 5 people  
Mattresses - 1 double & 3 singles   
Small Storage Crate  
Camping Fees & Parking for your entire stay  
Picnic Bench outside your tent  
Complimentary unlimited access to Farm Trail, Farm & Woodland Play for the duration of your stay (normally £4.95 per person, per day).


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ESSENTIALS Bell Tent Package

Woodland Camping - Beards Oak Wood or Lowany Wood, ideal for Wild Camping, Hammocks & Tarps. Camping with us and you will sleep under the stars. Staying on a real working farm set in 170 acres of beautiful Hertfordshire countryside. Our campsite is a place for quiet camping and enjoyment of the countryside. Ideal for families and friends. 

Woods camping locations are limited and rotate around our woods throughout the season. In peak months we will be operating a pitch allocation system. Most of the time it is possible to drive a car to the woods - exception is in winter when fields are wet.

**Small campervans such as traditional VW size are permitted - but larger than this and motorhomes and caravans are not allowed on our site.**



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Camping with us and you will sleep under the stars staying on a real working farm set in 170 acres of beautiful Hertfordshire countryside. Our campsite is a place for quiet family camping and enjoyment of the countryside. Ideal for families and friends.

We run an open pitch campsite allowing customers to pitch where they wish in the camping field. Therefore, there is no guarantee you can pitch near friends / family, so it is highly advisable to book a private area if you want family & friends to be close by.

**Small campervans such as traditional VW size are permitted - but larger than this and motorhomes and caravans are not allowed on our site.**



Camping At The Farm

The PREMIUM Glamping Package includes hire of a spacious canvas Bell Tent for up to 4 nights. Suitable for up to 2 adults and 3 children, the tent includes a double mattress & 3 single mattresses, with freshly laundered linen, camping essentials, a small rustic wooden crate for storage, floor mats & camp light for use during your stay. As standard the bell tent comes with one double bed and two single mattresses and a third single camp bed can be provided on request.

Enjoy freshly laundered linen including duvet, pillows & throw for double mattress, duvet, pillows & throws for the single mattresses. Essentials also include a kettle, pan, can and bottle opener, washing up kit, tea towel &water bottle for you to use for the duration of your stay with us.

The farm is a place for quiet camping and enjoyment of the countryside and no amplified music of any kind is allowed at on site. It’s essential that prior to booking you familiarise yourself with our Camping Rules & Regulations, as there are important points you will need to know as part of your stay with us, thank you.

Our bell tents are in two set locations around the farm, Pits Wood which is closer to the main farm & the more secluded Squitmore Spring Wood which is 5 minutes’ drive from the main farmyard (view map HERE), and cannot be moved. Cars can be parked next to the bell tents. Occasionally, we do move the tents although this will incur an additional charge. Please contact us to ensure this is feasible before booking.

Open Campfires are allowed and are made on the ground near your tent.


Hire of 5m Canvas Bell Tent for up to 2 adults and 3 children  
Double & Singles mattresses - 1 double & 2 singles (third single on request)  
Freshly Laundered Linen  
Cushions & Throws  
4 x Plates, Mugs, Bowls, Cutlery (4 x forks, spoons, knives, teaspoons)        
Small Storage Crate, Floor Mats & Camp Light   
Essentials Kit Hire: kettle, pan, can & bottle opener, washing up kit, tea towel, water bottle
Small Crate, Floor Mats & Camp Light   
Picnic Bench outside your tent    
Camping Fees & Parking for your entire stay  
Complimentary unlimited access to Farm Trail, Farm & Woodland Play for the duration of your stay (normally £4.95 per person, per day)




PREMIUM Glamping Package

PREMIUM PLUS Glamping Package
The Premium PLUS Glamping Package includes everything the PREMIUM package PLUS a bottle of Prosecco, Campfire Package with logs & lighting package AND large BBQ hire with charcoal and all the equipment.

Campfire Package includes extra large 40L bag of Ash logs, extra long matches, kindling & firelighters and permission for an open fire. The large BBQ hire is set up close to your site (grill, extra large 2kg bag of charcoal, tongs, matches, firelighters). 

Suitable for up to 2 adults and 3 children, the tent includes a double mattress & 3 single mattresses, with freshly laundered linen, camping essentials, a small rustic wooden crate for storage, floor mats & camp light for use during your stay. As standard the bell tent comes with one double bed and two single mattresses and a third single camp bed can be provided on request.

Enjoy freshly laundered linen including duvet, pillows & throw for double mattress, duvet, pillows & throws for the single mattresses. Essentials also include a kettle, pan, can and bottle opener, washing up kit, tea towel & water bottle for you to use for the duration of your stay with us.

The farm is a place for quiet camping and enjoyment of the countryside and no amplified music of any kind is allowed at on site. It’s essential that prior to booking you familiarise yourself with our Camping Rules & Regulations, as there are important points you will need to know as part of your stay with us, thank you.

Our bell tents are in two set locations around the farm, Pits Wood which is closer to the main farm & the more secluded Squitmore Spring Wood which is 5 minutes’ drive from the main farmyard (view map HERE), and cannot be moved. Cars can be parked next to the bell tents. Occasionally, we do move the tents although this will incur an additional charge. Please contact us to ensure this is feasible before booking.

Hire of 5m Canvas Bell Tent for up to 2 adults and 3 children  
Double & Singles mattresses - 1 double & 2 singles (third single on request)  
Freshly Laundered Linen  
Cushions & Throws  
4 x Plates, Mugs, Bowls, Cutlery (4 x forks, spoons, knives, teaspoons)     
Small Storage Crate, Floor Mats & Camp Light   
Essentials Kit Hire: kettle, pan, can & bottle opener, washing up kit, tea towel, water bottle    
Small Crate, Floor Mats & Camp Light  
Bottle of Prosecco    
Campfire Package (logs, fire lighters, matches & kindling)  
Large BBQ hire  with grill, 2kg bag of charcoal, tongs, matches & firelighters  
Picnic Bench outside your tent  
Camping Fees & Parking for your entire stay  
Complimentary unlimited access to Farm Trail, Farm & Woodland Play for the duration of your stay (normally £4.95 per person, per day)

PREMIUM PLUS Glamping Package

Large BBQ hire  with grill, 2kg bag of charcoal, tongs, matches & firelighters
Picnic Bench outside your tent

BBQ Food Pack

Our Coppice Woodland glamping site is a collection of intertwined ‘rooms’. We let the site to one family or couple at a time so our unique glamping site offers exclusive use of our native two acre woodland. The romantic woodland site offers bathing under the stars in the indulgent wood fired hot tub. This is a great family event or something special just for two.

**Sleeping Arrangements**

A renovated 1973 VW camper van with a permanent full sized double bed at one end and a small children’s (up to about aged 6) bed at the other end (where the driver and passenger seats used to be)

A woodsman’s yurt with king size bed to sleep two or use as a living area.

**Bathroom**

a genuinely beautiful twin vault dry compost toilet (really!) and ‘bathroom’ (wood fired hot tub and solar shower).

**Useful things to know**

There is no power at the glampsite. There are solar lamps and solar fairy lights and torches. There are plugs in the potting shed a short walk away if you need to charge any devices during your stay.

   The glampsite is unheated, so please bring appropriate clothing, hot water bottles and extra duvets or sleeping bags during the winter months!


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Coppice Woodland

The Secret Garden is perfect for a couple or can be used as a sister site to the Coppice Woodland for a larger group or two families. Our Secret Garden site has an earth sheltered cabin with kingsize bed and solar fairy lights. The woodland spa area hosts your own private wood fired hot tub while the covered swing pod and open hammock hang, both nestling amongst a wildflower meadow & fruit orchard, allows for outdoor relaxation whatever the weather.

There is no power at the glampsite. There are solar lamps, solar fairy lights and torches, also there are plugs in the potting shed if you need to charge any devices during your stay.
The glampsite is unheated, so please bring appropriate clothing during the winter months!

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The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden has earth sheltered cabin with kingsize bed and solar fairy lights and a single bed that can be pulled out from underneath, a cedar shingle covered camp kitchen and dining area with nearby circular fire pit, herb garden and covered swing pod, your own private wood fired hot tub, solar shower and compost toilet.

 The Coppice Woodland is set in our native woodland has a classic VW campervan with a king sized bed, a Woodsman's yurt with a king sized bed, your own private wood fired hot tub, purpose built fire pit, pizza oven and woodland kitchen, cedar shingle covered dining area and compost toilet. 


Church Farm Ardeley is an all-round family adventure; great fun for adults and kids alike! 

On your visit to the farm you will meet and feed our Red Poll Cattle, Lleyn and Welsh Black Mountain Sheep, Berkshire Pigs, British Lop Pigs, Aylesbury Ducks, Laying Chickens in Vicars Orchard, Chickens in Pits Wood, as well as Norfolk Black Turkeys and Embden Geese. There are nearly always chicks in the chick shed, lambs, piglets and calves to see too.

Around the grounds there is a good amount of flora and fauna with an orchard where you can pick your own fruit and veggies (seasonal), a magical fairy woodland, two ponds, a thriving home garden and three bee hives. 
We have seasonal activities for our visitors, such as lamb bottle feeding during Spring, and harvesting in September/October.  

Over the Easter, Summer, Halloween, Christmas and the half-term holidays we have special themed attractions, Easter egg hunts, trick or treating, meeting Father Christmas and so on. Alongside this, children can go on tractor rides, revel in the woodland play areas, follow the farm trail, play in the sand pit, plus lots more to see and explore! Indoors there is a soft play area for the under 5’s (currently Covid-19 restrictions are in place). 

The farm has a shop that is well-stocked. You can purchase delicious farm grown fruit, veggies and local meats. We also support the local community by offering a Rural Care Programme for adults with learning difficulties. The Rural Care team become Co-Farmers who gain valuable, real-life work experience on the Farm.  In addition, we have educational programs for schools, and for local businesses and forward-thinking leaders, we run motivational team building workshops for staff, groups and like-minded people.

If camping or glamping is your thing, you can do this too. Camp with us and you will sleep under the stars on a real working farm set in 170 acres of beautiful Hertfordshire countryside.  

We have a Farm Café and Pub which serves delicious meals, snacks and cakes (currently Covid-19 restrictions are in place). In the café we have a range of hot and cold drinks best served with fresh cake or sultana scones with cream and jam. For those with food intolerances, we have gluten and vegan options. The Jolly Waggoner’s Pub is a traditional free-house pub that serves real hearty food, real ales alongside a real fire.  

We look forward to welcoming you soon!

Tim & Emma


Tasks at Fairlands Valley Park include cruising bell boats and dragon boats, fishing, swimming in the paddling swimming pools and playing regarding the kid's adventure play area. They are closed for a while but are now reopen and also have not stood nevertheless during the present facility renovation and have now been contributing to the relevant skills of these staff, incorporating exciting recreations like kiting and boards and buggies.They have actually a fresh reception area to welcome you, and breathtaking changing spaces, showers and toilets solely for the customers you to definitely make every day good and easy and leave your energies free for the fun!The dragon and bell boats can be obtained as standalone tasks for adventurous families to take pleasure from or to include interest to school, scout or other group bookings which means you additionally the munchkins need every convenience and convenience open to. And let us keep in mind the hire that is casual for people who have taken a previous dinghy or windsurfing course.Plus, try the new GR8 Wall based at Fairlands Valley Park. The straight 6 metre wall that is climbing 4 climbing wall routes spread over 25sqm climbing area and includes accredited instructors. Helmets and harness all included so there's nothing left for you really to be concerned about except showing the children you are nevertheless veritably a ninja! Or, you know, keeping their stuff.

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Stevenage Garden Centre & Restaurant, part of the British Garden Centres Family. Browse our plant & gift areas followed by a bite to eat in Coffee Haven.


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Fun-packed parties are an incident that is everyday Partyman World Stevenage, with ball ponds, face artwork and lots of family-friendly activities.Get going on their multi-level playframe which can be full of climbing, clambering, swinging as well as sliding. Children could let loose in there for good hours which can be few the grown-ups relax in the comfortable chairs with a coffee in hand. That is not all though as the atmosphere cannons and ball pond are often champions with all the kids - the challenge will undoubtedly be getting them to go out of at the end associated with the day!Looking for somewhere to host a super birthday celebration that is unique? Look no further due to the fact group here 've got it covered with a buffet that is yummy several party rooms and all the essential extras. Toss in activities like face artwork and balloon modelling for the family that is perfect away. 

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Do not worry - you can find lots more days being great in Stevenage, or perhaps you can browse times out all around the British right here.

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Allow the children tuck in to food that is delicious COMPLIMENTARY! With any adult that is paying children can enjoy one of many junior dishes. Available seven days a, between 15:00 18:00 week.

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Love bowling? Even though you didn't say "Yes" right away, you're fully guaranteed a time that is breaking Hollywood Bowl Stevenage. Both young ones and grownups are welcome to try out, so please bring the gang! that is whole Stevenage centre has 28 top notch bowling lanes where in fact the whole family can battle it out. Concerned about getting the ball straight to the gutter? Use the bumper lanes watching the young kids gleam with pride because the strikes start falling in!Need a rest for food? At Hollywood Bowl, you will get food and beverages served for you which means you will not have to simply take some slack to own a bite as you perform. Bowling's over but you want more fun? Head up to the amusements area to take pleasure from games being arcade pool tables and slots. That is the ending that is perfect of day trip!

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At Air Space Stevenage, running on Oxygen Freejumping, kids are free to tumble, leap and play over 20,000 sq ft trampolines. Ideally it will have them from bouncing off the walls at home!allow your acrobats that are small with a spot of free jumping. After that they could experience zero gravity by wall operating, exercise their progresses a airbag that is huge fly for triumph in the slam dunk court. The dodgeball arena is a location that is fantastic families to try out together or in teams, all before hitting the really high records in the Power leaping tramp. PS. It's twice the ping of all of the their other trampolines!the group wish to produce an environment that is all-inclusive families with an under 5s area where they can play minus the fear of being bounced upon! There's also dedicated toddler sessions and Autism that is exclusive Friendly.

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