Chalky Downs Campsite
✓ Family-run campsite on a working farm in the South Downs
🏖️ 2.49 miles from Brighton Kemptown (Excellent water quality)
Brighton
The Secret Campsite
Lewes
📍 Town Littleworth Road, Lewes, BN8 4TD
🚆 Nearest station: · 2.5 mi
- Large, naturally screened pitches for privacy
- Site kept free from cars, dogs and music to protect wildlife
- Solar powered hot showers and electric car charging
- Unique stays including tree tent and gridshell shelters
- Farm shop and village shops nearby for provisions
The Secret Campsite offers real camping near Lewes, East Sussex, on the edge of the South Downs National Park. Pitches are large and naturally screened by native shrubs and trees, with the site kept free from cars, dogs and music so that wildlife can flourish. On site you'll find solar powered hot showers, an electric car charging point, flushing toilets, washing areas, freezers and wheelbarrows to transport your kit, plus the Secret Teapot cafe. Beyond tent pitches, you can stay in distinctive shelters such as the Okra, the Gridshell or England's first Tree Tent, suspended among oak trees. A farm shop lies just down the road, and the area is within reach of Cooksbridge station and museums including SteamWorks! and the Bluebell Railway Museum.
How far to…
- Shop
- 200 yds
- Station
- 2.6 miles
Practical details
- Parking
- Cars parked at reception, not by pitch
Accommodation on site
- Secret Shelters
- Gridshell
- Okra
- Tree Tent
Details taken from the operator's own website on 4 Oct 2026 — check current terms when you book.
Facilities
- ✓ Cafe
- ✓ Toilets
- ✓ Gift Shop
- ✓ WiFi
- ✓ Parking
- ✓ EV Charging
- 🔌 EV Charging Nearby
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