Dodgson Wood

Name: Dodgson Wood
Address: Coniston, LA21, GB
Telephone: +441229885663
Price range: ££
Rating: 4.4

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Beautiful campsite, camping barn and off-grid cottage near Coniston in the Lake Distrrict National P

Dodgson Wood Campsite, Wrostler's Barn and Parkamoor cottage are great eco-holiday destinations for families and groups. The cottage sleeps up to 7 people, the barn sleeps up to 12 people and the campsite is rented exclusively to your group of up to 25.

21/08/2025

BOOK YOUR TICKETS (link in bio)
Come join us and the Wayfaring Cinema Collective for a unique, outdoor cinema experience on the lakeside of Coniston at
Dodgson Wood, Ulverston, 6-10pm, Wednesday 24 September 2025.
We will be sharing three artist films with food, fire and conviviality:
Wayfaring Stranger (2025, UK, 69m, Andrea Luka Zimmerman), Gypsyland (20m, Delaine Le Bas) and Realities Checked (2024, 17m, Damian Le Bas) on a mobile outdoor cinema by the shore, with a bar & facilitated
conversations around the fire.
About visiting Dodgson Wood
The event will take place in a field on the South-east side of Lake Coniston, just north of High Nibthwaite. There is no direct public transport, but the nearest train station is Ulverston from where you can take a taxi. For those driving/cycling, use What3words: ///tint.leathers.weekends. There is a
campsite close by, and we are offering free camping for night of this event.
More info from

05/08/2025

Brilliant day at the McRobert Farming and Rural Skills Centre at . We were presenting alongside , to stimulate discussions around what and how to improve conditions for local farmers. This was an initial phase of a bigger project. So often we give talks but there’s no follow through. But this felt different and enlivening. 👏🏽❤️

14/07/2025

From the book launch at of
Very pleased to have an essay included in Vol. 1 about some of the ways we’ve added value to what our farm produces. The books are a great collection of current thinking on the ground about land, food and farming (vol.1) and housing, planning and construction (vol.2). Published by ❤️
Available through Little Toller, Common Treasures and our website X

08/07/2025

From eggs that sat in the incubator for 28 days to these little dinosaurs now two months old. This is them roosting for the night. They are very good and always take themselves to bed, unlike the adult turkeys that I have to persuade into their hut. If you’ve never kept turkeys, I would recommend them. They bring me a strange amount of joy!

01/05/2025

I will be speaking at Transition Live 2025 🧑‍🌾. I will be talking g about building businesses that support our small family farm. Creativity and collaboration have been key to opening up new economic and cultural opportunities, diversifying but staying rooted in our farming values. We will also have a stall at the event where you can talk about farming with or wool with and we will have some and .wool.library products for you to buy. Hope you can come! Link for tickets in bio. ❤️

30/03/2025

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers who make new bodies from their own body. It’s truly magical. But it took me being in the lambing shed to realise just how incredible it is. You see every relationship in the lambing shed, mostly loving, but some indifferent or some sheep seem deliberately neglectful. Not all mothers are the same and seeing this in the lambing shed as I mother lambs having never been a mother myself helped me come to terms with my difficult relationship with my own mum. I’m writing about this and how I ended up on a farm in the Lake District in a memoir that should be published spring next year (if I finish it in time!). It’s called A Night In The Lambing Shed.

14/02/2025

Happy Valentines Day from us all at the farm! John and I are having a romantic day, driving a trailer load of wool to British Wool to be graded for ❤️
Who needs flowers when you could have puppies and llamas and sheep and wool ❤️❤️❤️

19/01/2025

Well that was tricky as there were so many brilliant suggestions! We’ve decided on Yan - The Cumbrian word for one. It needed to be a one syllable word that is easy to shout across the field or fell.
Thanks so much for all the suggestions. We’ll bank them and use some for inevitable pet lambs in Spring.

18/01/2025

John’s new sheep dog. We need a name for him!

01/11/2024

Brilliant event at with - Wool Exchange . Exhibition of industry and students work using British wool and panel discussion around how to get more people wearing British wool. Bumped into lots of friends and made some excellent new ones too 🥰Worth the long train ride 👌🏽❤️
Too busy talking to take decent photos but it really was great. X

23/08/2024

Shearing shoe in an Ullswater barn. Collecting wool for next year’s Lake District Tweeds. It’s a long, very expensive process to go from the farm as greasy wool and come back as beautiful throws and tweed. But I’ve never doubted the value of this work. On Thursday, alongside (who are doing brilliant work with British leather) we were asked to talk about FIPL funding with the Minister for Farming, Daniel Zeichner and other select DEFRA Ministers. It was to demonstrate how important FIPL (Farming In Protect Landscapes) has been in the hope that the fund continues. Of course I talked passionately about the difference it has made, and the potential impact this type of funding could have long term. It’s not like a typical farming fund, it allows for innovation and creativity. For us, the funding supported Lake District Tweed, a Wool Report and a knitting machine, so as well as talking about the funding strategy itself, I got to speak about the importance of supporting a British wool industry so we can see it thrive again. I felt like they heard me. And that felt really good.

16/08/2024

I won! Women in Agriculture award at the Cumbria Farmer Awards tonight. Did not expect it at all. It was that impressed the judges the most and that wouldn’t have be possible without all the farmers, John and FIPL funding from

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Coniston
LA21

Telephone

+441229885663

Website

http://www.dodgsonwood.co.uk/

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