About Hamlet Wood Scout Camp Site
Scout and Guide Campsite and is only open to members of the Scout & Guide movement and to other Uniformed Youth Organisations.
Hamlet Wood Scout Camp Site Description
Hamlet Wood is situated on high ground only 2. 5 miles south of Maidstone. The 27 acres of coppiced woodland consists mainly of chestnut and birch, with a mixture of many other varieties of trees.
The main camping is in separate clearings around a central activity field known as The Glade, as well as two other fields known as Cutbush and Cobtree. A permanent building, housing male and female toilets, washing facilities with hot water and a separate disabled toilet including a shower are available to all using the site.
Two buildings on site are available for hire for courses and conferences, for Pack holidays and Beaver sleepovers and as winter sleeping quarters and to Groups wishing to use their facilities whilst camping.
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Come along to Hamlet Wood on Saturday 15th Dec 9.00 to 12.00.... for working party fun and exercise, and if you could offer a few of these Silver Birch saplings a home, we'd be very happy....
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... to all Maidstone East District Scouts and Leaders who slept in boxes at Hamlet Wood ... Thank you! You made a difference!
Saturday morning working party.... thank you EVERYONE for your hard work!
Bring your Troops, Units, Friends and Parents!
Don't forget to get your bookings in for next summer!
Interested in booking the site or hiring equipment? Click on the link to find out more!
Some of the groups at Hamlet Wood today - some great activities going on including pioneering
We've just added some more photos and information to our website. http://www.hamletwood.org.uk - go take a look around and maybe let us know what you'd like to see on there that isn't already.
Our new website is live! Go take a look and let us know what you think. We'll be making changes to it over the next couple of months from feedback we receive. http://www.hamletwood.org.uk; you may notice a few broken links when going through from Google or another search engine - we're fixing those soon.
Tomorrow is our monthly working party here at Hamlet Wood. Should anyone like come along and help out, help is always appreciated and as usual Tea shall be provided.
Thank you to everyone who came to help with today's working party.
This Saturday is our monthly Working Party here at Hamlet Wood. It would be great to see people here helping out. Usual Working Party times 9:00am to 1:00pm.
Hamlet Wood is looking at how we could improve Working Party's and make them more enjoyable for Young People. Please take the time to complete our short survey about our Working Party's.
http://tinyurl.com/WorkingPartySurvey
The sun is shining here at Hamlet Wood and the entire Service Crew is out working across the site.
Shiver me timbers! Thar be lots o' parents and scouts taking part in the pirate themed Coxheath Scout Group Family Camp here at Hamlet Wood. So thar be plenty o' pirates to help capture the Warden.
Hi All!
Tomorrow is our monthly Working Party here at Hamlet Wood. It should be a nice day tomorrow and we have plenty to be done. It would be great to see people here helping out. Usual Working Party times 9:00am to 1:00pm.
Hope too see as many of you as possible
We have enjoyed our camp (12-8 until 19-8 2017). Very beautiful campsite and the Warden was very kind. We were the only group on site the all week. Campsite is very clean and beautiful nature everywhere. Greetings from Scouting Hedera Delft (The Netherlands)
It doesn't matter how long you have been away from Hamlet Wood. You know you will always
have happy memories.
Great site