FEATHER DOWN, ESSEX

Feather Down was one of the first companies to take glamping to farms and its successful formula has seen locations spring up across the UK. Don’t be put off by the amount of canvas on show; its canvas lodges are huge and have all the furnishings of a rustic home, albeit one where you can tie back the flaps and let nature in. Expect fire pits and hot tubs, too. The site at Layer Marney Tower, in Essex, has availability and is close to a tall Tudor gatehouse. Mersea Island, with its oyster shacks and pastel-hued beach huts, is a 20-minute drive away.

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AMBER’S BELL TENTS, NORFOLK

Amber’s traditional tents feature across five sites, three of them in the grounds of historic halls. The romantic bell tents erected at each site are made cosy with ethnic rugs, wooden crates,