A bell tent, a shepherd's hut, a treehouse and a cabin on eleven acres above the Wye at Whitebrook, fifty metres apart, each with its own fire pit. Hot showers, a barn, hampers to the door, canoes to our beach, and the real calendar on this website.
The pods
Canvas, on a deckfrom £85a night, two nights minimum
Five metres of canvas on a deck at the top of the meadow with the whole valley in front of it: a proper double, two singles, a stove, lanterns, and the sound of rain.
| Season | Weekday | Fri / Sat |
|---|---|---|
| Low season | £85 | £105 |
| Mid season | £100 | £125 |
| High season | £125 | £145 |
Timber, on wheelsfrom £110a night, two nights minimum
At the edge of the wood with the best sunset on the site: a double bed across the end, a wood-burner, a two-ring hob, a little table, and a stable door to lean on with a mug.
| Season | Weekday | Fri / Sat |
|---|---|---|
| Low season | £110 | £130 |
| Mid season | £125 | £150 |
| High season | £150 | £175 |
Twelve metres up an oakfrom £165a night, two nights minimum
In the big oak above the river by a staircase and a rope bridge: a double bed, a stove, a copper bath on the deck, a compost loo, and the river below you all night. No dogs, nobody under eight.
| Season | Weekday | Fri / Sat |
|---|---|---|
| Low season | £165 | £190 |
| Mid season | £185 | £215 |
| High season | £215 | £245 |
Timber, with a bathroomfrom £150a night, two nights minimum
By the barn with a porch and a door that shuts: a double room, a bunk room, a sofa bed for two more, a kitchen with a cooker, and a bathroom with a hot shower. The one for a wet week with small children.
| Season | Weekday | Fri / Sat |
|---|---|---|
| Low season | £150 | £170 |
| Mid season | £170 | £195 |
| High season | £195 | £225 |
The site
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Four places to sleep on eleven acres: the Bell Tent for four on a wooden deck with a double and two singles, the Shepherd's Hut for two with a wood-burner, the Treehouse for two twelve metres up an oak with a stove and a copper bath, and the Cabin for four (plus two on the sofa bed) with a kitchen and a bathroom. Each has a fire pit, a view and a price by the night on the pods page; two nights minimum.
The Bell Tent from £85 a night, the Shepherd's Hut from £110, the Cabin from £150, the Treehouse from £165, each by the night in low, mid and high season and by weekday or weekend.
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Eleven acres running from the lane down to the river: a meadow cut in paths with the four pods at its edges, an oak wood with the treehouse in it, a timber shower block with three hot showers and two loos, a barn with a kettle, a fridge, games and a drying rack, four fire pits with the first basket of wood free, and two hundred metres of the Wye with a shingle beach. No shop, no bar, no play area; the field is the play area.
Everything on the site is in the nightly rate: the showers, the barn, the fire pit and the first basket of wood, the river beach.
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No shop and no café, so the food comes to the pod: a breakfast hamper for two by half past eight (bacon and sausages from the butcher in Monmouth, eggs from our hens, bread from the bakery, butter, jam, juice, milk, the coffee) for £28, a welcome hamper of bread, cheese, a bottle and the firelighting kit for £45, and a one-pot supper for two to heat on the fire for £38. Ordered by six the day before on the booking page or by text.
The breakfast hamper £28 for two (£12 each extra person), the welcome hamper £45, the supper £38 for two, a children's breakfast £6, a cake for an occasion £22.
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The Wye Valley Walk passes the bottom of the field and Offa's Dyke Path is forty minutes up the hill, so the walking starts at the gate: three walks from the pods written up with times, and a guided morning with Tom for £20 a head. Canoes come from the hire company at Monmouth: three hours from Redbrook to our beach for £35 a head, or the whole day from Symonds Yat through the rapids and the gorge to the site for £55, with the kit, the briefing and the lift.
Canoes £35 a head for three hours (Redbrook to our beach) or £55 for the day (Symonds Yat to the site), children half price, including the kit and the lift to the start.
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Dogs welcome in the Bell Tent, the Shepherd's Hut and the Cabin (not the Treehouse, for the ladder) at £8 a night with a bowl, a towel and a lead hook on the deck; children count in the sleeps and cost nothing, under-twos go in the travel cot we leave out, and the meadow is fenced from the lane with the river beach shallow at the paddling end. No play area, no club, no screen: the field, the river, the fires and the dark are the entertainment.
Dogs £8 a night each, two at most in a pod.
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The whole eleven acres for your own party: all four pods (sleeping fourteen), the barn as your kitchen and your wet room, the meadow for a marquee or a long table, the beach for the canoes and the fires lit at all four pits. Two nights from £1,450 in low season and £1,950 in high, each extra night £650, for a family gathering, a fortieth, a hen weekend that wants to sit by a fire rather than a bar, or a wedding of twenty with the ceremony in the wood.
Two nights £1,450 (March, April, October and weekday May and June) or £1,950 (July, August and any weekend May to September); each extra night £650; the ceremony licence for the wood £350; a long table and benches for twenty £120; the fire pits all lit and stocked £60.
The river
The bottom of the field is the river: a beach shallow enough to paddle at the near end, deep pools further down, and a depth board that says whether today is a paddling day. Three hours from Redbrook back to our beach is £35 a head; the whole day from Symonds Yat through the gorge is £55.
How we run it
A two-night minimum (three on a bank holiday weekend), priced by the night: a weekday or a weekend night in low, mid or high season, every number on the pods page. No cleaning fee, no service fee, no booking-site mark-up, and firewood for the first night in the price.
Dogs welcome in the bell tent, the hut and the cabin (not the treehouse, for the ladder), £8 a night with a bowl and a towel. Children count in the sleeps; under-twos sleep in the travel cot we leave out. The meadow is fenced from the lane and the river beach is shallow.
The farmhouse is at the top of the track and we are in it all season. Elin does the bookings, the hampers and the calendar; Tom does the fires, the canoes, the walks and the thing that has stopped working. We will leave you alone unless you knock.
The site opens on the first of March and closes on the last day of October so the meadow can recover and so can we. The cabin would be warm in January; the walk to the shower block in January would not. The winter is for the roof, the paths and the new treehouse.
Hampers
No shop on the site, so the food comes to the pod: bacon from Monnow Street, eggs from our hens, bread from the bakery, carried down the field by Tom. A welcome hamper with the firelighting kit for £45, and a one-pot supper for the fire for £38. Ordered by six the day before.
The three hampersGuests
We checked the calendar on the website in January, saw the treehouse was free on our anniversary and booked it on the spot; the calendar was right, which it never is anywhere else. Twelve metres up an oak with a copper bath and the river under you. We did not come down for two days.
Four of us and the dog in the cabin for a wet week in April. A bathroom with a door, a cooker, the barn full of board games, and the children in the river in wellies every time it stopped. The price for every night was on the pods page and it was what we paid.
Twelve of us, all four pods, the fires lit when we arrived and the long table on the meadow under the lights. Canoes on the Saturday, the barn as our kitchen, and no bar, which is why we chose it. £1,950 for two nights for twelve people and nobody else on eleven acres.
The availability page shows every month of the season for every pod, taken or free, with the price for each night, read from the list Elin updates the day a deposit lands. Pick the pod, the first night and the number of nights and it quotes the stay, or says which night is the problem.
By the pod, the season and the night: the Bell Tent from £85, the Hut from £110, the Cabin from £150, the Treehouse from £165 on a weekday in low season, up to £245 for the treehouse on a Saturday in August. Every number is on the pods page. Two nights minimum, no fees on top.
Four pods on eleven acres, each with a fire pit; a shower block with three hot showers and two flushing loos; a barn with a kettle, a fridge, games and a drying rack; the river with a beach at the bottom. No shop, no bar, no play area. Hampers come to the door.
In the Bell Tent, the Hut and the Cabin, yes, at £8 a night with a bowl and a towel, two at most. Not the Treehouse, because of the ladder. The meadow is fenced and the river is theirs too.
A breakfast hamper for two arrives at half past eight for £28, a welcome hamper is in the pod for £45 and a one-pot supper for the fire is £38, all ordered by six the day before. Otherwise the shops are in Monmouth, four miles. The barn has a fridge with a shelf per pod.
Yes: all four pods, the barn, the meadow and the beach for up to fourteen sleeping, from £1,450 for two nights in low season and £1,950 in high, each extra night £650. The wood is licensed for a ceremony of thirty. A dozen times a year.
The availability page shows every night of the season for every pod, taken or free, and quotes a stay with the price for each night. Then one form books it; Elin replies within two hours, 8am to 8pm, and a deposit of a night holds it.
