The Lodge
The Lodge
Insulated timber cabin sleeping four, with underfloor heating, a wood-burning stove and a private deck for slow morning coffees.
- Sleeps 4
- 2 bedrooms
- Wood burner
- Pet friendly
£145 / night
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Fordingbridge · New Forest
Slow mornings beside the River Avon.
A family-run retreat on the western edge of the New Forest — choose between a timber-clad lodge, a riverside cottage, or a quiet pitch under broad oak trees.
3
Unique retreats
12
Secluded pitches
5★
Guest rated
Loved by guests
4.9 / 5 from 200+ reviews
Where you'll stay
Three ways to switch off
Each retreat at Croft has its own character — pick the one that suits your pace, your party and your idea of a holiday.
The Lodge
Croft Cottage
Croft Cottage
A traditional New Forest cottage sensitively restored — inglenook fireplace, farmhouse kitchen and a walled garden that opens onto the meadow.
- Sleeps 6
- 3 bedrooms
- Open fire
- Walled garden
£210 / night
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Campsite
Riverside Campsite
Twelve generous, level pitches on softly mown grass — tents, campervans and small motorhomes welcome, with clean facilities and a fire pit on every pitch.
- 12 pitches
- Electric hook-up
- Fire pits
- Well-behaved dogs
£24 / night
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30 yrs
Family run
Our Story
A corner of Hampshire that moves to its own clock
Croft Cottage and The Lodge sit on a gentle bend of the River Avon, just outside the market town of Fordingbridge. The land has been in our family for three generations — once a working smallholding, now a quiet refuge for travellers looking to step out of the rush.
We’ve kept the character intact: uneven stone floors that tell the story of two centuries, a kitchen garden that still feeds the house, and broad oaks that were old when our grandmother arrived. The campsite opened in the spring of 2014, carefully slotted between the trees so the deer still cross the meadow at dawn.
- Edge of the New Forest National Park
- Private river crossing & fishing rights
- Woodland walking trails on the doorstep
- Locally sourced welcome hampers
We’ve holidayed at Croft for four summers running. The kids build dams in the river, we read on the cottage lawn until the swallows come out, and somehow we never check the time. It’s the only place we truly unplug.