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A woman carrying a rolled towel walks the gravel track past the shower block, motorhomes and a castle headland beyond

Facilities & site life

A walk round the place.

Start at the gate, up past the shop, and down through the den wood to the pond. Nothing on site is more than two minutes from any pitch — that's the whole design of it.

The tiled corridor inside the shower block — glazed cubicles down one side, a peg rail and slatted bench down the other, and the door at the far end open to the sea
The family room: a changing table and basin under the window, the bath on the right, and the door open to the grass path
The covered washing-up bay, someone at the sink with the castle beyond

Stop 01

The shower block

Rebuilt from the ground up in 2022, and the thing guests write to us about most. Eight showers with proper pressure and underfloor heating, so the floor is warm at seven in the morning in April.

Two family rooms with a bath and a fold-down changing shelf, a separate wet room, and a covered washing-up bay with hot water that stays hot. Cleaned three times a day, and Mum checks it herself at teatime.

Showers 8, plus 2 wet rooms
Family rooms 2, bath + changing
Heating Underfloor, all season
Cleaned Three times daily
The shop counter, baskets of sourdough loaves in the foreground
Three people waiting at the coffee hatch, the bay behind them
A shelf of local jams and eggs with handwritten price cards

Stop 02

The shop & bakery

Open from eight, and the bread comes out at half past. We bake sourdough and croissants on site, and the rest of the shelves are the things you actually run out of: milk, eggs, gas, tea bags, midge cream, marshmallows.

There is a hatch coffee machine and four tables under the awning, which is where most people end up comparing walks. Local eggs from the farm at Swinhoe, kippers from Craster, ice cream from Doddington.

Open 8am – 6pm daily
Bakery Bread + pastries from 8.30
Coffee Hatch espresso, all day
Gas Calor and Campingaz
Two children stacking pallets and branches into a den among the trees
Looking out through the sycamores of the den wood to the sea
A game of table tennis in the old stone byre

Stop 03

The den wood & play field

Half an acre of scrubby sycamore at the bottom of the top field, with rope swings, a stack of pallets and branches, and no instructions. Children disappear into it after breakfast and reappear at teatime, filthy.

The mown play field beside it has goalposts, a slackline between two posts and a table tennis table in the old byre for when it rains. There is no arcade and no wifi strong enough for a games console, on purpose.

Den building Materials restocked weekly
Play field Goalposts + slackline
Wet weather Table tennis in the byre
Ages Best from about 4 up
The swimming pond, its timber deck and ladder at the near edge
The path down to the water past the end of the deck
The reeded shallow end of the pond

Stop 04

The swimming pond

A spring-fed pond in the far corner, dug in 2019 and now properly settled — reeds at one end, a timber deck and ladder at the other. It opens in May when the water comes up to something like bearable.

Adults swim before breakfast, children swim all afternoon. It is not a pool: there is no lifeguard, the bottom is silt, and under-16s need an adult with them. Warm outdoor shower on the deck.

Open May – September
Depth 1.4m at the deck
Supervision Under-16s with an adult
Shower Warm, on the deck
A collie running flat out across the fenced off-lead field
A towel over the wall by the field gate, the castle in the distance
A spaniel on a lead on the sandy path through the dunes

Stop 05

Dogs on site

We have three between us, so dogs are properly welcome rather than tolerated. The dog walk field is a secure acre behind the pod meadow where they can go off-lead, with bins, a tap and a towel hook at the gate.

On leads everywhere else, and the southern stretch of Beadnell Bay takes dogs all year — twelve minutes down the coast path. The shop keeps bags, and the Craster Arms lets them in the garden.

Off-lead field Secure, one acre
Per stay £4 a dog, 2 max
Beach Dog-friendly all year
Pods One dog per pod

The plan

Twelve acres, drawn out.

The gate and reception sit at the bottom; the land rises north-east towards the water. The pod meadow is tucked behind the gorse bank, which takes the edge off the wind without taking the view.

Illustrated plan of Haven Crags: the entrance and reception at the bottom, hardstanding bays along the west edge, the grass tent field in the middle, the shower block and shop at the centre, the den wood to the north-east and the swimming pond and dog field to the east

Everything else on site

Laundry room Two washers, two dryers, an iron and lines behind the byre
EV charging Two 7kW points by reception, £0.42/kWh
Motorhome service Grey water, chemical disposal, fresh fill
Wi-Fi Free across both fields; honest speeds, not fast
Firepit hire £8 with a bundle of kiln-dried logs
Recycling yard Six streams, glass, food waste and a swap shelf
Bike store Lockable, with a track pump and basic tools
Reception library Tide tables, OS maps, jigsaws and paperbacks

Accessibility

Honest about the ground.

It's a coastal field, so parts of it slope. We'd rather tell you exactly what to expect than promise flat. Ring us and we'll talk through which pitch suits you.

Level access pitches Four hardstanding pitches within 30m of the shower block, on tarmac the whole way
Accessible wet room Level-access wet room with grab rails, drop-down seat and a 900mm door
Pod access Two pods have ramped decking and a level-threshold shower room
The slopes The top field rises about 1 in 12 — steeper than most wheelchairs like. Say the word and we will put you low
Assistance dogs Welcome everywhere on site, including the bell tents, and no charge
Quiet arrival Ring ahead and we will meet you at the gate rather than the office

Sustainability

Looking after the land we live on.

Grandad planted the shelter belt in 1991 and it's the reason the pod meadow is calm. We're carrying on in roughly the same spirit.

The shelter belt 900 native trees planted since 1991, still going in at about 40 a year
Solar and heat 32kW of roof solar runs the shower block; pods are on air source heating
Water Rainwater harvesting for the loos and the wash-down bay; low-flow showers throughout
Field management No pesticides, late first cut for ground-nesting birds, wildflower edges
Waste Six-stream recycling, food waste composted on site, no single-use in the shop
Local first Bread flour, eggs, kippers and ice cream all from within fifteen miles

Come and use it all.

Everything on this page is included in your pitch — bar the logs and the pastries.

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