About us - your campervan/motorhome site hosts

Thank you so much for taking time to find out about us…the family behind the Cotswold Campervan Stays, formerly the glamping site Campden Yurts. We are the Corners – Jane, Neil, Elly, Billy and Roxy dog. Also here with us is Jane’s Dutch Mum, Dieuwke, and our free-range chickens. This is a family affair!

I (Jane) have been involved in hospitality in one way or another for many years. Starting with weekend work in hotels as a teenager, an outdoor pursuits centre, retreat house, arts/events centre and then setting up and running Campden Yurts glamping site for 9 years! Now on to the next chapter of changing the site to take campervans and motorhomes instead from 2026. 

I feel I have been able to pull together all that matters to me – providing a unique, outdoorsy, safe space for guests, and doing my bit to care for the environment (read about our sustainability aims and commitment below).

Our home, Hillside Nursery, is a 5 acre smallholding on the outskirts of the historic market town of Chipping Campden. This is the most northerly point of the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) known as The Cotswolds. 

In 1971 this little corner of the Cotswolds was a rundown, overgrown plant nursery. Then Jane’s parents bought the land and worked hard to create a self-sufficient way of life. They filled the smallholding with goats, ponies and chickens and grew their own fruit and vegetables. For over 40 years they lived this way, close to the earth and simple. It was certainly a labour of love, but they valued the simplicity of this way of living.

In 2008 Jane and Neill moved back to Hillside Nursery full time. After a few years raising young children, we began to think about what we could do with the land. Out of those plans and dreams came our glamping site Campden Yurts. Opening for guests in 2017, the yurts hosted hundreds of families, couples and groups who came to enjoy a change of scene and to enjoy this beautiful area. 

And now it is time for the Cotswold Campervan Stays adventure to begin:

We hope to continue welcoming guests in a different way from 2026 – those who bring their own beds!

Jane runs the online and physical side of the business and will be your point of contact from initial booking through to welcoming you onto the site when you arrive and waving you off when you leave. I will also be available if you have any problems during your stay.

You may meet Neil too at the pizza evenings and catch a brief glimpse of the kids, if you are lucky!

We want guests to be able to relax as soon as they arrive. To come through the gates and feel their holiday has already begun. We invite you to have a unique holiday, make memories, enjoy the great outdoors and gorgeous Cotswold countryside.

Our sustainability aims:

Our aim is to be as sustainable as possible, consequently ‘to do very little harm’. Therefore, where possible, we use solar powered lighting around the site and indoor/outdoor shelter. Where possible we recharge, recycle and re-purpose. The fire wood is from local estates and we also clean using ecological products.

Even Bob our cob pizza oven which we use for guest’s pizza parties is made from our own clay soil and local stone! You can read more about him and our pizza parties in our blogs.

To read more about the history of the site and the journey to where it is today, see our blog on the History of Hillside Nursery.  Thank you.