Bell tent · Lower hillside
Hartland
A wide timber deck partway up the hillside, with gas cooking facilities directly opposite the tent.
Sleeps up to 4Live prices
Bell tent on the lower hillside
Kernow
Hartland’s neighbour on the same stretch of hillside, with its own deck and the gas cooking facilities the two tents share.
Sleeps up to 4A double bed and two single bedsDogs welcome
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- Open year-round
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Kernow in pictures
Bell tent · Lower hillside
About Kernow
Kernow, the Cornish word for Cornwall, is the second of the two bell tents on the lower hillside, sharing the stretch with Hartland. It has its own private deck with a chiminea on it, matting underfoot, and a double bed and two singles all made up with bedding and towels before you get here.
The two tents share the gas cooking facilities that sit directly opposite them, which means breakfast happens where you are staying rather than at the far end of the park. There is still no cooking inside the tent — that holds for every bell tent we have.
Height-wise Kernow is the sensible middle. You get the raised outlook over the fields without the steep path the upper tents demand, and the walk back down to the shower block is a gentle one rather than a descent you think twice about at eleven at night. The bell tents run from April to September.
Where it sits: On the lower hillside beside Hartland, up a gentle rise from the valley floor — high enough to look out over the fields, low enough that the walk down for a shower isn’t a chore.
See Kernow on the park mapShowers, toilets & cooking
Gas cooking facilities are sited directly opposite the tent and shared between Kernow and Hartland, used by nobody else. There is no cooking inside the tent. Showers and toilets are in the shared block down on the valley floor, open 24 hours.
- Showers
- Shared shower block
- Toilets
- Shared shower block
- Cooking
- Gas cooking available outside
What you get
- Gas cooking facilities opposite the tent, shared with Hartland
- Double bed plus two single beds — sleeps up to 4
- Chiminea on the deck, with logs for your first night
- Beds made up with bedding and towels before you arrive
- Matting underfoot
- Its own private raised deck
- A view over the valley without the steep climb
- Shared shower and toilet block on the valley floor, open 24 hours
- Cook deck for glampers at the facilities
- Dogs welcome
Good to know before you book
- The gas cooking facilities are outside, directly opposite the tent, and shared between Kernow and Hartland. There is no cooking inside the tent.
- If both tents want the gas at once, the cook deck at the facilities is down on the valley floor and open to everyone.
- Showers and toilets are in the shared block on the valley floor, open 24 hours, with baby changing in both the male and female toilets. Bring a torch for the walk back after dark.
- It’s a gentle rise up to Kernow rather than a climb — noticeably easier than the path to St Petroc, St Enodoc and Sea Campion on the upper hillside, but not flat. The camping-field tents, Fistral and Polzeath, are the level option.
- Bedding and towels are provided and the beds are made up. Bring your own food.
- Four in a bell tent is still plenty spacious: one round canvas room with a double and two singles in it.
- The bell tents run from April to September. Outside those months the lodges, the school bus and the Airstream stay open, and camping pitches run in their own seasons.
- Dogs are welcome. Please keep them on a lead no longer than two metres, exercise them in the area provided, and don’t leave them unattended. We can’t accept Rottweilers, Dobermans, Bull Mastiffs, Pit Bull Terriers or their crosses.
- Arrive from 3pm, leave by 10am.
Kernow: questions & answers
Kernow is the Cornish word for Cornwall. It’s the neighbour to Hartland on the lower hillside — the two tents sit on the same stretch.
Outside, yes. Gas cooking facilities are sited directly opposite the tent and shared between Kernow and Hartland, used by nobody else. There’s no cooking inside the tent itself, and the cook deck at the facilities is there too.
Very little. Same layout inside, same private deck, same gas facilities between them. Hartland has the wider deck of the two; Kernow sits alongside it on the same stretch of hillside.
A gentle rise from the valley floor, not a climb. The upper hillside tents are the steep ones — Kernow and Hartland are the middle ground between those and the level tents down in the camping field.
In the shower and toilet block on the valley floor, shared with the rest of the park and open 24 hours. Hot showers with hairdryers, and baby changing in both the male and female toilets.
No. The beds are made up with bedding and towels, and there’s a chiminea on the deck. Bring food and you’re set.
Yes. Dogs are welcome in every stay at Willow Valley. Keep them on a lead no longer than two metres around the park, use the dog exercise area, and please don’t leave them unattended in the tent.
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