Wolford Woods Wild Camping: A Perfect Cotswolds Weekend Escape
- James
- 6 days ago
- 3 min read
Updated: 3 days ago
Nothing beats a quick, one-night camp on a really hot summer's day in the UK. For this trip, I packed up all my essential motorbike camping kit onto the Royal Enfield and hit the road. My mate Davo met me there in his car with all the gear to make pizzas.
The Campsite we chose: Wolford Wood wild camping near Moreton in Marsh
We met up at Wolford Woods wild campsite which is just by Moreton in Marsh Cotswolds. If you’re like me and hate big commercial campsites with hundreds of people and kids running about everywhere, this place is right up your street. Wolford Woods wild camping.
It’s a back to basics style site with a strict "no trace" ethos, spread across 40 acres of meadows and ancient woodland. It honestly feels like wild camping, which I love, but you still get decent facilities. Its not proper wild camping but its as good as its gets in this area.
The Setup: It’s heavily spaced out, and you’re totally free to choose your own pitch right out in the wild flowers.
The Cost: £22 per adult for camping.
The Facilities: They’ve got good toilets, showers, and a big shared kitchen area with a fridge, kettle and sinks. You can also rent fire pits on site.
The Cabins: They do have 4 different style cabins to hire if you want a bit of luxury, but camping is always my preferred choice.
Wolford Woods: There’s a massive woodland right next to the site for big walks, and you can even do some foraging and wildlife spotting if you’re into that, i am.
Tip: They keep wheelbarrows by the entrance for you to haul your gear over to your spot. This was a lifesaver for us, because we were planning to cook pizzas from scratch later and had a fair bit of kit.
The Local Pub: The Bell Inn
The day we got there was a boiling hot summer day with clear skies. Once the camp was set up, we headed straight into Moreton in Marsh to hit the local pub. We went to The Bell and honestly, I think it’s the best pub in the area. It's a proper old school Cotswold pub right in the middle of the village, full of locals, with good beers and ciders and a great beer garden at the back that does pizzas. The local fish and chip next door always seems to very busy especially on a Friday evening maybe next time.
The Food: Fire-Fired Pizzas & Wings
After 3 or 4 beers, we headed back down the road to the campsite to get the food sorted. Davo brought his Totalcool fridge 45L plugged into his Anker powerbank, which kept the beers and all the fresh pizza ingredients perfectly cold.
We got Gozney gas pizza oven up to temperature, and I rolled out the homemade 24 hour fermented dough into balls let them rest a bit while prepping the toppings and having another cold cider, naturally.
We made two different styles from scratch:
The Burger Pizza: A homemade tomato sauce base topped with ground local burger meat from the butchers, red chillies, chopped gherkins, red onions, herbs, mozzarella and a drizzle of special burger sauce. It came out a little burnt but tasted absolutely brilliant.
The Spicy Meat Pizza: A traditional homemade tomato sauce base with salami, 'Nduja sausage, olives, mozzarella, red chillies, and fresh basil. Excellent flavour, even if the shapes weren't perfectly round!
We also tossed some hot buffalo wings into the oven just to pick on. They were okay, but I overcooked them a bit. The oven was still to hot.
We had a great afternoon and evening just chilling out, looking at the stars at night with hardly any noise from anywhere. It was the perfect little escape from any city life.
Morning After: Lynwood & Co
After a great sleep in the tent, we packed up our gear after a decent lie in and went back into Moreton in Marsh. We stopped at Lynwood & Co for a flat white coffee and picked up some fresh sourdough bread to take back home.
The Verdict: Wolford Woods wild camping
Would I stay here again? 100 per cent. It’s a great location, near a couple of good towns Chipping Norton isn’t far away either. It gives you that raw, wild camping feeling but has good facilities.
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