Glamping Thorpe

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Go back in time for a romantic break in a handcrafted gypsy caravan or traditional shepherd’s hut – but still have firm mod cons to hand including breakfast delivered to your very own door? We’ll have a very large portion of that please, and quite possibly seconds. There’s more than a touch of the Enid Blytons about spiffing Georgian farm site Glamping Thorpe – traditional, tiny but with bags of space per pitch and hidden away in a rural retreat on the Oxfordshire/Northamptonshire border (attentive owners Anna and Paul will even take you on a vintage tractor ride to the top of their highest hill to see some smashing English scenery). Campfires are allowed, of course, for frying up dinner of an evening over a glass of wine or a ginger beer (the town of Banbury is about six miles away for picking up supplies). If you can’t be faffed cooking, stroll across the fields to local pub The Three Conies in the village of Thorpe Mandeville for wizard home-cooked food daily and an amicable atmosphere. Amenities at Glamping Thorpe are quirkily cute too, with an old horse box converted into a spacious shower room with loo and wash basin, and a separate compost loo built like a tipi – we’re pretty certain even the Famous Five never had it this good.

Site type

Lodges, cabins, pods or huts 2

Languages spoken

English

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Features

Leisure on site

Bar or club house

Cycle hire

Evening entertainment

Fishing

Fitness centre

Games room

Indoor swimming pool

Kids' club

On-site restaurant/cafe

Outdoor swimming pool

Play area

TV room

Take away

Tennis

Watersports

Amenities on site

Bath available

Car parking by pitch/unit

Composting toilet

Disabled facilities

Dog park

Drying room

Food shop

Free wifi

Ice pack freezing

Internet access

Launderette

Local produce

Parent & baby washroom

Pick-up from public transport

Portable toilet

Pub toilets

Public telephone

Shower available

Toilet block

Washing-up area

Wifi

Groups welcome

Family friendly

Motorcycle friendly

Single-sex groups welcome

Student groups welcome

Rules

Barbecue provided

Barbecues allowed

Campfires allowed

Commercial vehicles allowed

Dogs allowed

No dogs allowed

Themes

Peaceful

Remote location

Spectacular scenery

Walkers' paradise

Wildlife haven

Utilities

Charging facilities

Chemical disposal

Electric car charging point(s)

Gas cylinders available

Recycling available

Renewable energy

Nearby amenities

Bar nearby

Dog walk nearby

Type

Farm

Tiny (1-10 pitches)

Nearby leisure

Restaurant nearby

Location

Glamping Thorpe

Thorpe Lodge Farm

Banbury Road

Thorpe Mandeville

Banbury

Oxfordshire

England

OX17 2HA

Directions

Timezone

Europe/London GMT (GMT+00:00)

GPS

52.0961°N
-1.2345°W

Route directions

We are 5 miles from Junction 11 of the M40 signposted Banbury. Come off the M40 onto the A422 and continue on Banbury Lane to Sulgarve. The site is on this road.

Nearest transport

Coach
4.7 mi Bus Station
11.6 mi Bus Station
12.4 mi White Hart PH
Rail
4.7 mi Banbury Rail Station
5.5 mi Kings Sutton Rail Station
12.5 mi Heyford Rail Station
Airport
18.5 mi London Oxford Airport
21.4 mi Coventry Airport

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

Local attractions

Prime picnicking, decent gastropubs and glorious walks are all around the countryside surrounding Glamping Thorpe – Anna and Paul will happily point you in the right directions – but urban exploits in Oxford, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick and Leamington Spa are only half an hour’s drive away. Banbury, the town of Ride a Cock Horse nursery rhyme fame, is a good starting point to see the noted Cross (rebuilt in Victorian times since Puritans destroyed the original, alas) and to have a pint or two in the seventeenth century Whateley Hall Hotel, once the famous Three Tuns which put up many old-style celebs in its day including Jonathan Swift. If you’d like to leave the car at Banbury, you can pick up trains or coaches to Oxford, Warwick and Reading as well as further afield to London Paddington and Birmingham; otherwise there’s fairly easy access from Glamping Thorpe as it’s five miles from of the M40 (Junction 11). Or race around the local circuit instead: Banbury and its surroundings are renowned for their motor racing history and Silverstone Circuit is about twenty miles away at Towcester. (More old-fashioned racing can be seen at Towcester Racecourse which hosts National Hunt meets from October to May.) No old-style hol would be complete without a trip to Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick for the Bard’s old haunts and the spooks of Warwick Castle respectively; there are racecourses at both too if Towcester has tickled your fluttering fancy. While you’re in the vicinity, the ancient town of Royal Leamington Spa just outside Warwick is well worth a look: sadly there are no longer healing waters to bath in like the Romans, but the Royal Pump Rooms have a spa museum and art gallery, and spa water can still be sampled outside. Other watery pursuits around the region include punting on the River Avon (a bit of a must, say we) and casting off for coarse fishing at nearby Boddington Reservoir where bags of 100lb+ are relatively common (the record so far is a 630lb bag over six hours). South from Glamping Thorpe and heading towards Oxford you’ll reach the old market town of Bicester and its thoroughly modern shopping village for always enjoyable till ringing, and Woodstock with Churchill’s old pad Blenheim Palace, one of our faves. The home of the ancestors belonging to another glorious leader, George Washington, is at Sulgrave Manor in Northamptonshire.

Must see

Silverstone Circuit 9.1 mi

Stowe Landscape Gardens 10.2 mi

National Waterways Museum -Stoke Bruerne 14 mi

Compton Verney 14.3 mi

Althorp 16 mi

National Trust

Canons Ashby 4.9 mi

Farnborough Hall 6.7 mi

Stowe Landscape Gardens 9.9 mi

Buckingham Chantry Chapel 12.4 mi

Claydon 16.9 mi

Cycle routes

Find local routes on the National Cycle Network - over 12,000 miles of cycling routes.

Other

Marston St Lawrence - Farthinghoe - Greatworth 1.6 mi

Chacombe - Upper Wardington 1.9 mi

Culworth - Marston St Lawrence 1.9 mi

Culworth - Eydon - Moreton Pinkney 1.9 mi

Sulgrave - Culworth 2 mi

Local events

  • Fairport's Cropredy Convention (Thursday 8 August 2024 – Thursday 8 August 2024)

    Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire 3.7 mi

  • Formula 1 British Grand Prix (Thursday 4 July 2024 – Thursday 4 July 2024)

    Silverstone, Northamptonshire 9.5 mi

  • Blenheim Palace Flower Show (Friday 21 June 2024 – Friday 21 June 2024)

    Woodstock, Oxfordshire 18 mi

  • Wilderness Festival (Thursday 1 August 2024 – Thursday 1 August 2024)

    Oxford, Oxfordshire 19.6 mi

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

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  • What attractions are near Glamping Thorpe? Prime picnicking, decent gastropubs and glorious walks are all around the countryside surrounding Glamping Thorpe – Anna and Paul will happily point you in the right directions – but urban exploits in … Read more
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    On-site accommodation
    Arrive:  2 p.m. –  Anytime
    Depart by:  11 a.m.
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