travel | PENNINE PUBS VERSION
The popularity of camping has
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taken off in the past couple of years. My preference when it comes to campsites is a pub with basic facilities for campers, no children’s play area and only space for a small number of visitors. Peace and quiet, beautiful countryside and an evening drinking beer. During the summer and early autumn of 2021, I visited pubs west of the North Pennines that welcome tents. Most of
them also accepted motorhomes, some had B&B rooms, glamping pods and space for caravans. There were news reports that due to coronavirus and people staycationing, it was almost impossible to find a vacant pitch. I found it wasn’t a problem at the pubs I visited and, on more than one occasion, we had the camping space to ourselves. The only problem regularly encountered was that some of the pubs
didn’t have their usual beer range. All but one of the pubs is in Cumbria and all of them are in great locations for walking and cycling tours. Low Bentham is the most westerly village in Yorkshire but has a Lancaster postcode. It is a good base to visit the Forest of Bowland, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and two national parks, the Yorkshire Dales and Lake District. The Punch Bowl
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Country pub camping
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Martin Ellis packs his tent and a copy of the Good Beer Guide and heads to the Pennines
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20 BEER SUMMER 2022
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