Roebuck Farm Campsite

Roebuck Farm Campsite is a tent field on a working farm at Highwood, East Stoke, sitting in open countryside between Wool and Wareham inside a Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. A warning belongs at the top: the farm's old web address stopped resolving some time ago, and the newest camping details anyone published run to the 2012 season, so ring ahead on the last known number before you load the car. What the farm itself set out was six acres of ground, mostly level with a gentle slope, kept rural and screened, open only across high summer instead of year round. Pitches took tents. Nobody was offered a hardstanding, a hook up or a cabaret, and that was rather the point. Washing meant showers and toilets, with a chemical disposal point on hand. The farm butchery ran a small shop selling its own meat and barbecue kit, and hot food or a barbecue appeared most evenings. Wool station is five minutes by car, Lulworth Castle lies three and a half miles off, and Bovington sits nearby, with another farm shop at East Holme barely five minutes away. Roebuck Farm suits campers who like a field, livestock and quiet, and nobody else.