Camping

The Festival provides many, many fields for camping throughout the site - which adds much to the uniqueness of the event. Your ticket price includes access to the camping fields.

You can camp next to the areas of the Festival that most interest you. There are camping areas right in the heart of markets, next to many stages such as Dance, Other Stage, Pyramid Stage, or near performance areas in the Green Fields, Theatre or Lost Vagueness (in the vibrant Dragon Field)...and Pennard Hill Ground has a culture of its own, with people returning year on year. See on the Site Plan where the camping areas are.

However if you do not want to haul your bags and rucksacks too far from the coach station there is the quieter Limekilns and Hitchin Hill Ground where you have more chance of sleeping!!! 

Recent improvements to the quieter family camping area in Cockmill Meadow have proved very popular, what with a secure fenced off area, 24  hour Campsite Stewards, improved lighting - and its near the Kidz field.

When you come to the Pedestrian Gates, you will be advised which camping fields are full and be directed to fields with space.  Please follow this advice.  Campsite Wardens will close a field and stop any further camping if they feel the camping density in that field could become a safety or fire risk. Directions to quieter or less dense places to camp are held and updated by Campsite Stewards.

There is plenty of camping space around the site - but if you want to make sure you can camp in the field of your choice, best come early.  Some perennially popular fields, like Row Mead are full on Thursday morning!

Alternatively, Camp Kerala is a totally private tented village consisting of 50 tents, a few minutes walking distance from the festival site situated on a privately owned farm.

 

Please tidy up after yourself and bag all your rubbish before you leave the site - it makes life so much easier for the teams of workers who turn the site back into a dairy farm.  The sooner they finish, the sooner the cattle can get back out.   You can all help.  Plastic waste bags (green for recyclable items and black for other rubbish) are available from property lockups.

Camp Welfare

Here is a list, suggested by Festival Welfare, to bring with you to have a great festival:

So don't forget....

Tent (check pegs/lines/poles/groundsheet)

Sleeping mat/sleeping bag/duvet/pillow
Spectacles/contacts (cleaning stuff?)
Ear plugs/cotton wool
Towel/soap
Toiletries (toothbrush/paste, tampons, shaving items, loo roll, wet wipes, Etc.)
Sun cream/oil

Contraceptives
Radio (Radio Avalon 87.7 Fm)
Torch/batteries/bulbs (spares)
Mobile phone

Camera (disposable?)/films

Mark valuables with house no & postcode

Medications (prescriptions/inhalers/chemist sundries)

Medical info (allergies etc)
Next of kin notification
Personal I.D./travel ticket(s)
Festival Ticket!
Driving licence/ car documents (AA?)
Money/cards

Shorts/jeans/skirt/dress
Socks/tights/underwear
Boots/sturdy shoes/Wellingtons
Waterproof coat/over trousers
Sweater
Hat/gloves
Clean clothes to go home in
Bags (for dirty clothing and footwear)

 

And if you forget to bring any essential kit, don't worry, there are several camping accessory stalls that sell everything from tents to sleeping bags, blankets to tent pegs, plastic under sheets to torches.