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Meon Springs

Coombe Road, West Meon, GU32 1HW

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This place should be called the Head-cleaner – a canvas equivalent to St John’s Wort.

Meon Springs Campsite, Cool Camping, campsites, camping, England, Hampshire

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Hampshire’s countryside is far from lacking in the scenic stakes: from the magical woods of its New Forest in the south to the rolling cornfields of its northerly borders, you’ll find endless valleys and wild meadows unpopulated by a single human but for the occasional farmer harvesting his crops.

It’s in this countryside that West Meon resides, a delightfully twee English village, which would make an excellent cameo in a Miss Marple story. It’s also home to Meon Springs Yurt Village. Based on a dairy and arable farm that has been run by the Butler family for three generations, it is one of the few farms in the area that still has milking cows. The Yurt Village is run by Jamie & Alison, who conceived of the idea in 2009. Other sites may also have yurts from Mongolia, but this campsite actually feels Mongolian, with its miles of china-blue sky and rolling uninterrupted land. This is landscape to free the mind and strip away stress.

Inside, the yurts are delightfully rustic with burner stoves (logs provided), chequer-quilted double beds and exquisitely hand-painted blue supporting posts, backdropped by wooden cross-hatched fretwork. The accommodation sleeps up to six and all your bedding and utensils are provided. Outside, you have your own fire pit and a barbie for cooking up under the stars; and on a clear night this is a great spot to ruminate on UFOs or pretend you know where The Bear is, for the firmament is bursting with gems.

Come the morning there’s loads to do, be it sampling local ales in pubs as old as Dick Turpin, walking or cycling the miles of local paths (you can hire mountain bike and GPS to power and guide you and Jamie will send you a map of the local area on booking). With a spot of fly fishing just round the corner at Meon Springs Fly Fishery, you can even catch a trout for the barbecue and if you’ve got kids with you remember to ask to see the dairy farm and have a go at milking the cows.

Cool factor:

This place should be called the Head-cleaner – a canvas equivalent to St John’s Wort.

Who's in?:

Glampers, dogs – yes. Campervans, caravans, regular tents – no. Groups also welcome, though there are noise regulations.

Onsite fun:

Campfires are allowed in the fire pits. The yurt village is made up of 5 yurts, each sleeping up to 6. There are toilet blocks. In the Yurtery you’ll find a disabled loo, baby facilities, hot showers, and a kitchen with personalised fridges. There’s also a cold-water shower and loo block in the middle of the camp. Yurts have reading lights and electric plug points, as well as a standpipe. The tents are well spaced and shaded by young trees, but not so separate that you become a hermit.

Offsite fun:

Meon Springs does fly fishing lessons just under a mile from the yurts. It’s great fun to learn (£35 per hour’s tuition). Clay pigeon shooting (50 clays for £60 per person) and archery (£35 per person) classes for groups of six and more can also be arranged (details available from the lovely Jemima on request). Petersfield Lido is nearby for baking summer days. For walking, take a picnic and lunch up at the Old Winchester Hill, about a mile away, where there’s an old Roman hill fort.

Food & drink:

Stock up on food at the butcher’s and local shop, both in nearby East Meon. The café at the Fishery Lodge (01730 823134) is great for mid-walk snacks and all-day breakfasts. For lunch try East Meon’s Ye Olde George Inn (01730 823481), a 15th-century coaching inn with an organic-heavy menu and tasty fare such as fish pie and roasted rump of lamb.

The damage:

Yurt (maximum 6 people) – four nights mid-week or three nights weekend (Mon–Fri or Fri-Mon) low/high season: £265/£395 .

Open:

Late March–early November.

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Meon Springs

Frances

- Visited on: 04/11

5

I loved our stay in the Mongolian Yurts at Meon Springs! I spent my birthday there, with my parents, sister, and my other half.

The owners were friendly and very helpful. Jamie came to say hello when we arrived, and stayed to chat for a while, pointing out landmarks and answering questions. We wanted to hire bikes and go on a bike ride, so the next day he provided excellently working mountain bikes and a map with a route. We had a lovely ride in the beautiful countryside and stopped off at the historic settlement, which was very interesting (they have a spring festival there in May called Beltain which looked like it would be fun) and we had a drink at the local pub on the way home!

Our Yurt was clean and tidy when we arrived, with beds made and it was stocked with cutlery and kitchen utensils. Anything else we needed could be found at the Yurtery in the fully equipped kitchen, including a fridge specially for us. There was a huge stockpile of ready-cut wood for the inside stove or outside fire pit, and the toilet and shower facilities were excellent - clean, loads of loo-roll and lovely hot water at any time of day!

The first night we were there we had a bbq and ate on our picnic bench outside the yurt. There were plenty of blankets to wrap ourselves in when it got a bit chilly later. We thought we'd better put the fire on to keep warm inside, and by the time we went to bed it was so toasty in the yurt that we had to open the door to let some cool air in so that we could get to sleep! No worries about being cold at all.

We didn't just bbq while we were there. We also made salad and bread and pancakes! Petersfield wasn't far away so when we ran out of beer we popped to Tesco Express and bought some more. It was lovely to drive through the country lanes. On our final night we had a delicious curry in Petersfield - again recommended by Jamie.

All in all it was a really enjoyable stay in a very comfortable and pretty accommodation, which had all the creature comforts (including a sofa and electricity - I could use my hairdryer, yay!) I am a complete fan of glamping and would definitely go back to Meon Springs again!

Stayed in: luxury tented accommodation

Review submitted on: 07/05/11

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Getting there

Take the M3 to Winchester then the A272 for Petersfield. Where the A272 crosses the A32 you’ll see a pub, garage, and set of traffic lights known as the West Meon Hut. Turn right here, follow the signs to West Meon Springs – the site is 2 miles from the village of West Meon. If you are using SatNav, please use postcode GU321HW.

Public transport:

Petersfield station can be reached from London Waterloo (1 hour), on arrival catch a cab, as it’s too far to walk. Call 1-4-U Cars (01730 231347) or Arrow taxis (Mark - 07889946252).