Ford Bridge Campsite

20/06/2026

A week today folks:
Ford Fest - 27th June, book your tickets now! 🎶😎

Have you booked your tickets yet?? 👀🎪🎶

11/06/2026

Pottery weekend🏺this weekend if you fancy a mooch while you’re here on site! 🏕️🚐

05/06/2026

Bamburgh Run this Sunday & our friends at the Lavender Tea Rooms have got you covered 😋🏍️ worth a watch while your here on site 🏕️🚐

01/06/2026

Donation entry into Heatherslaw Mill this June to August! Be sure to come and see the last working Watermill in Northumberland while you’re here on site! Well worth a visit 🏕️🚐

As part of our 50th birthday celebrations at Heatherslaw Mill, we’d like to invite one and all to come and have a look around this Summer! 👀
Since November 1975 the mill has been open as a heritage visitor attraction, focused on keeping the craft of milling and the availability of quality, local stoneground flours alive. 🌾
From June until August we are throwing our doors open and getting rid of our entry fee! In its place, we kindly ask for donations of any size to support our Mill and hopefully keep its mill wheel grinding for another 50 years. ☀️
We’re proud that our mill has retained its traditional purpose and, after over 700 years of milling history on this site, it is now the last working watermill in Northumberland and one of the few remaining in the UK.
🙏 We look forward to continuously making more improvements as our ancestors did, whilst still keeping the traditional craft of milling true to its original processes and techniques.

Whether you like to see and learn about grains and our changing diets, or how necessity proved the mother of invention, how buildings such as watermills ran sustainably and in harmony with their local landscape for hundreds of years… or just fancy getting some of the best stoneground flour you can find, Heatherslaw Mill has something for everyone. 👍
We hope visitors new and returning will enjoy coming to “mill around” with us this Summer.

28/05/2026

Yes we know, who wants to hear about Christmas 😂 but the Santa Specials sell out very quickly at Heatherslaw Light Railway, so grab your ticket while you can! 🚂🎅🏻

22/05/2026

Sundays entertainment up at The Cheviot Tap🎶
Something for everyone in our hidden gem of the Ford & Etal Estates 😊

If you’re still looking for something to do this Sunday, come and hang out with us and enjoy some sunshine, live music & curry!! ☀️🎶🎤🥘🍺
Since the weather is looking INCREDIBLE- we are also going to open this bank holiday Monday too!!

Booking is recommended but not essential for Sunday’s music event!

To book a table-
📱 message this page
📧 email [email protected]
📞 call 07777509242

🍕Pizzas served Friday & Saturday 5-8pm🍕
🍺Bar open Friday & Saturday 12-10pm🍺
🍺Bar open Sunday 1-6pm 🍺

21/05/2026

😋😋delicious! Lavender Tearooms & Village Shop at Etal is worth a visit while your here on site this weekend 🍰☕️

Have you tried a Singing Hinnie?

"hinny" is the regional pronunciation of "honey" (a common term of endearment), and "singing" describes the whistling sound they make when cooking on the girdle.
The story of how the cake got its unique name centers on a busy North country housewife baking over an open fire. As her hungry, impatient children gathered around the stove repeatedly asking if the teatime treat was ready yet, she eventually replied: "No, it's just singing, hinnies!".

We serve our hinnies warm with jam & cream, they are delicious 😋