The site

Six things about the field, each priced.

A glamping site is six things in a field: the beds, the fires and the showers, the food, the river and the hill, the dogs and the children, and the whole thing for a party. Each has a page with what it costs and how it works, and none of them has a fee hidden behind it.

A fire pit burning on a wooden deck in a meadow at dusk, two camp chairs and a lantern beside it, a bell tent glowing behind and a wooded valley fading into blue

The pods

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.

The site: fire pits, showers and the river

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.

Hampers and breakfast

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.

Walks and canoes

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.

Dogs and families

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.

Hire the whole site

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.

How the field works

Four things about the place.

A meadow, not a lawn

Cut in paths twice a summer and left long between, so there are orchids in June, grasshoppers in August and barn owls hunting it at dusk. The pods sit at the edges so the middle stays a meadow.

Solar and spring water

The pods run on solar lanterns and USB points; the shower block heats with gas on demand; the water is from the spring above the farmhouse, filtered and tested every season. The cabin has mains for the cooker.

Built by Tom, from the valley

The hut, the cabin, the shower block and the treehouse were built by Tom from larch and oak from a sawmill at St Briavels, across the river. The treehouse staircase took a winter and is the best thing he has made.

Closed in the winter

November to February the field rests and so do we: the paths are relaid, the canvas comes down to be cleaned, and the next thing is built. The calendar opens for the next season on the first of November.

Pick the pod, pick the nights, and see every one of them priced.

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.

Check availability The four pods