View Full Version : wild camping Edale/Castleton area
boiledbeef
17-01-2010, 11:31
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scrogger
17-01-2010, 14:04
Beefy I am not sure anyone will openly name places due to our Laws etc etc. But if anyone knows anywhere you may get a few pms. I will drag out my maps later to see if I can rememeber a few grid refs that are walkable from train stations.Must admit I aint been to the Peaks for ages.
Andy
Not a place I would consider for wild camping as area is pretty busy with walkers, cavers and farming throughout the year. Not much in the way of cover/woods either.
Some campsites are open all year and at least offer a legal alternative.
Coopers Farm in Edale has a pub on its doorstep, always useful in the rain.
Cheers Riven.
robin wood
17-01-2010, 18:26
Yep Edale/Castleton is about as "honey pot" an area as you can get. There are more folk living within 50 miles of Edale than within 50 miles of Big Ben (Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield are 2nd, 3rd and 4th biggest cities all within an hours drive. There are more subtle places to wildcamp. Good choices of campsites in the village though varying from those in the village with decent showers and loos and 2 mins walk from the pubs. Filedhead has a small backpackers area the other side of the stream from the main campsite. Whitmore Lea Farm, Barber Booth is farmers fields not well known just short of a mile from the village centre and empty this time of year.
http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/townlisting.asp?town=Edale
Melonfish
17-01-2010, 21:18
Yup, wild camped around edale, get up high and out the way and no one will mind. we didn't have any open fires however, we only had our trangs.
eaten alive by the wee beasties mind!
If your near Hayfield i highly recommend the camp site on kinder road near Kinder reservoir. Its the Camping and caravan club and they NEVER turn away backpackers!