Adult Only Touring Caravan Park & Camping
Self-catering Holiday Lodge Accommodation For hire
Sparkford Somerset
ADULT ONLY CARAVAN PARK WITH AUGUST AVAILABILITY
Enjoy an August break in Somerset at our adult only caravan park and campsite. Our five star Visit England rated touring park is an ideal place to holiday in the summer - you have to worry about the school holidays getting in the way of your relaxing break! We have both standard and fully serviced hardstandings for your motorhome or caravan and lots of tent pitches available with availability for a short break, a weekend away in Somerset or a whole week to explore nearby!
Customer favourite the Giant Flea Market at The Royal Bath and West Showground, Shepton Mallet returns on Sunday 11 August. The largest flea market in the West Country, the Shepton Mallet event has great finds across homeware, furniture and gardens, as well as retro goods.
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There's over 250 indoor and outdoor stalls to explore at the giant flea market and Shepton Mallet is on our direct bus route from Sparkford High Street to the Bath and West Showground.
Visit the new Phyllida Barlow exhibition at nearby world-famous gallery, Hauser & Wirth in Bruton. For 60 years, Barlow's work has featured in solo exhibitions at the Tate Modern, the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Germany and the Hepworth Wakefield. She was awarded a Damehood for her services to the arts in 2015.
The exhibition will cover sculptures, drawings and paintings which have travelled across the world from her extensive career. The gallery is free to visit and also houses a great restaurant, gardens and farm shop.
The annual Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza is held on Saturday 3 August this year. The headline act is British band Keane celebrating their 20th anniversary of their album Hopes and Fears. The concert takes place in amongst the abbey site, with fireworks held as a finale.
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Local act The Shepton Mallet Big Band will be supporting, with more guests due to be announced nearer to the time. Tickets are available from the Glastonbury Abbey website.
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Later in the month sees the Glastonbury Night at the Abbey featuring headliner Newton Faulkner on Saturday 24 August.
For fans of planes, trains and automobiles, there's some great events in Somerset this August:
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3 - 4 - Railwells Model Railway Exhibition, Wells Town Hall
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Sunday 4 - Haynes Breakfast Club, Haynes Motor Museum, Sparkford
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Saturday 10 - Diesel and Burger Evening, East Somerset Railway, Shepton Mallet
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Saturday 24 - Wings and Wheels gathering of classic cars and aircraft, Henstridge
If you didn't manage to get tickets to the two musical events at Glastonbury Abbey this August, there's lots of other days to join in with:
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Monday 5 - Time Travelling Carpenter - Medieval Ground Billiards, Glastonbury Abbey
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Friday 9 - Hound of the Baskervilles, Glastonbury Abbey
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10 - 11 - Vikings at the Abbey, Glastonbury Abbey
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Spend your free time on a golfing break, with lots of great golf courses nearby in Somerset and Dorset.
We have three excellent golf courses very close by;
Wheathill golf course at Lydford-on-Fosse (6 miles) offering a challenge to golfers of all abilities
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Long Sutton golf course on the Somerset levels (10 miles) a challenging course and one of the best in the local area
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Yeovil golf course (8 miles) a championship standard 18 hole parkland course set in beautiful surroundings.
Practical Caravan Magazine have chosen us as the Best Site for Cycling 2024! Bring your electric bike, pedal bike or handcycle and enjoy some great routes around Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire.
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We're also proud to be one of the Top 100 Practical Caravan sites for the third year in a row.
If you're looking to spend the summer with friends or family who aren't seasonsed caravanners or campers, why not look at hiring one of our holiday lodges?
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Our lodges are ideal for cross-generational groups and two of our holiday lodges are suitable for wheelchair users, making it easy to spend time with friends or family with additional access requirements.
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We can accommodate 14 adults across our holiday lodges for hire, and they're just a stone's throw from our caravan and camping pitches.
We've been featured in Campervan Magazine as their "must visit site" during a visit to Glastonbury. With lots of outdoor activities and walks, the summer is an ideal time to visit this area of the Mendips.
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Our guide to Glastonbury gives you ideas for following in the footsteps of King Arthur and a rundown and history of the landmarks, including the Glastonbury springs and Glastonbury Tor.
Visit new exhibition of work by Somerset printmakers at the Somerset Rural Life Museum in Glastonbury. The exhibition runs throughout June until September and features 13 local printmakers using traditional and experimental techniques. The exhibition will be influenced by their lives and experiences in Somerset.
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The Somerset Rural Life Museum is within a short distance of Glastonbury Tor and is a great place to research rural history of the area, including a 14th century Abbey Barn, deemed one of the West Country's finest buildings.
Spend a day out at one of our 15 most local National Trust gardens, houses and places of interest. With so many National Trust members visiting us for the famous sights of Stourhead gardens and the country's longest "long gallery" at Montacute, run by the National Portrait Gallery, we'd also recommend many other days out to make the most of your membership.
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With Glastonbury Tor just a short drive away, we'd recommend climbing up for views across Somerset. Lytes Cary Manor is another popular NT house, and our nearest at just 5 miles away. The Grade 1 listed gardens and house of Tintinhull with a traditional arts and craft style garden. The Priest's House at Muchelney near Langport is a medieval hall dating from 1308 with connections to local author Thomas Hardy.
With Somerset regularly featuring in the major newspapers and travel magazines as a top destination for food and drink, there's more restaurants than ever to enjoy this spring.
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Enjoy locally grown food from local farms, with warmer weather in Spring enabling outdoor eating once again! You'll also find lots of great farm shops nearby, including one within a mile of our caravan park, which also accepts dogs in their cafe area.
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Take a look at our top tips for eating in Somerset:
As a Premier Parks top site, and a VisitEngland 5 star Touring and Camping Park and a Practical Caravan Top 100 site, we're also a past winner of the Gold Award winner of the South West Tourism Awards Best Camping and Caravanning Park in the South West region.
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We are open all year, with room for up to 26 touring units and 20 tents.
Enjoy a challenging walk around one of the most undiscovered parts of Somerset and take in some of the West Country's most important history. Nearby Cadbury Hillfort is known to be the gateway to the South West and is thought to have been occupied by King Arthur in 470-580 BC. Take a look at our history of Somerset and learn about the wonderful surroundings:
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