The Gate Hangs High Reviews

Excellent pub, great food

An excellent place to stay behind the pub with pleasant views. We visited the Hook Norton Brewery, which is great. The pub was very friendly and the food and service was excellent.

Absolutely wonderful

We stayed at the top of the field with friends for 4 nights. Perfect location, beautiful fields in view. The pub attached to the field was lovely. Amazing home cooked steak and on the Sunday we had the carvery. The staff were wonderful. The owner of the pub was so nice and friendly. We just can’t fault this location and the Cotswolds is just stunning.

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Everything you need

Cheap and cheerful, everything you need. Pitch a tent, have a pint and relax.

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Fantastic!

Really enjoyed our stay here. A lot of campsites around this area are really expensive, this place is not! Super reasonable! No messing around with camping, just pitch up where there is space. Pub is great, staff were really friendly and the service was excellent. Fantastic atmosphere and busy for a weekday evening which is always great to see. Food was really good and reasonably priced. Couldn’t have asked for anything more. Thank you very much!

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Very good site for motorhome stay

Lovely, quiet site behind pretty pub garden despite being near busy road. Pub food (home made steak pie) was excellent. Good access, Hook Norton village is a 25 min walk away. Such a lovely area to explore & the site had everything we needed.

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Weekend away <3

Where do I begin!! From the food, campsite and the people we loved every part of our stay!! Never felt so welcome in a place! We will be back for sure and we can’t wait to see what they have in store to do with the place!! LOVED the stay!!! Even got to listen to live music with a pint and enjoyed a tractor race!! <3

Great place, lovely people

It was pouring with rain when we arrived quite late in the afternoon. Got chatting to a lovely guy in the car park who turned out to be one of the owners. He let us tick into the corner of the car park overnight as lees chance of getting stuck. Are in the pub. Food was AMAZING! Lovely staff. Sadly I didn't get the name of our little waitress but she was great. Would go back.

The Gate Hangs High. Great friendly campsite

Absolutely lovely site, still work in progress as only taken over site 2 months before, lovely people, tractor rally, excellent pub with live music . We will be returning. X

Brilliant location staff very friendly and helpful 10/10

Good location and handy to have the pub a stones throw away

Excellent food

An ideal place for an excellent dinner with great food and service. The camping field and facilities are basic but clean with plenty of room to pitch where you like. The pub garden will be perfect in the summer with lots of tables and new Aunt Sally pitches.

Great stay

I stayed for the one night. Ska band were playing. Very welcoming, great food from pub delivered to our campervan 👍 Will def go again.

Weekend of The Inflatables

We had a great 2 nights Saturday to Monday. Easy to find well situated of the side of the road nice big car park. Go into the bar area to be greeted by Kate & her team, we had already pre booked & paid via the campsite app so we were simply to choose you spot with electric. When all set up we walked up to the local village 30 minutes walk to The Hook Brewery wow absolutely stunning we had pre booked a tour. Then back to the gate hangs high for drinks & food before the even’s entertainment The Inflatables Ska band & they were brilliant doing 2 1hr set's, were wasn’t kind but everyone made the most of it. In the Sunday out for another walk through the village then back to the gate hangs high for our pre booked Sunday lunch again a warm welcome, drink from the bar then seated for our lunch. We had beef & pork loin with lovely veg roastys & the most amazing cheese cauliflower with mustard in it yum yum!! Then I had to have the pudding of course!! This was apple & blueberry crumble with custard big portion & very tasty. All the food was freshly cooked & served to us with a smile. We then went back too our motorhome & chilled for the evening then a nice quiet nights sleep. I will say on the Monday morning the skip company next door you could hear the trucks leaving at 7-730am this didn’t bother us at all it’s a Monday & people need to go to work. Thank you Kate & team we will definitely return to your lovely pub. Cheers Scott & Sarah.

Great location Food absolutely beautiful highly recommend

Great location and easy to book. Staff friendly and helpful. Food served in the pub was beautiful and would highly recommend as evening meal out. Will definitely be coming back.

Great overnighter with my brother

Great little overnighter, me Nd me brother. Lovely beer, lovely food, lovely people. Thank you to Brett and the team.

our stay

the couple have only been there a few months but are having a lot of work done. so although there were workmen and machinery about it did not interfere with our stay . They have an excellent chef and the food is very good. Didn't use showers or toilets as we have our own , but couples we spoke to said these where very good.. would definitely stop again.

This pub and campsite made us feel so so welcome

Wow, what can we say. Nigel, Kate, Brett and all the fantastic team made us feel super welcome. They always had time to stop and chat, they bent over backwards to ensure the stay was great. This pub and campsite are going places, no doubt we will be going back!

Overnight at The Gate

Had a lovely overnight stay in the field. Great weather, lovely views. The site would benefit from having pitch markers to avoid neighbours parking too close to each other, for safety and privacy reasons. Could also do with a couple more water points. Great pub, and fantastic food. Brett and team were lovely.

Cheap and cheerful

We had a lovely stay at this campsite, especially for the price. It could be improved slightly by some signposts to indicate where the toilets/shower facilities are (I still didn't manage to find the shower). Our stay was dampened slightly by some others not obeying the campsite rules, letting their dogs off lead and waking up to some dog mess outside our tent, which didn't belong to our dogs. Ample car parking facilities, actual field is kept neat and tidy with grass cut short. Looking out over the cattle was nice too. Lights from the industrial area behind were on throughout the night. The staff were super friendly and helpful though, and it wouldn't put me off coming again. They were super informative about local attractions and the area itself is beautiful. Roads leading up to the site have quite a few potholes though so drive carefully on approach! They came around each morning to collect any rubbish you had and stopped for a chat. Overall I would recommend this campsite, the food in the pub looked amazing too.

Great value & very friendly!!

Fabulous welcome. Very laid back. Staff and fellow campers super friendly!! Only slight niggle was the loo not kept very clean or stocked. May have been an oversight as apart from that highly recommended!!

Very noisy

Ok, so the good stuff. There is a really friendly pub with great food at the location. The owner plans to expand this to create outside music events, which could be lots of fun. However, this seems to attract noisy groups, so sleep isn't easy. The site is next to a busy road and next to a waste site, with continuous visits by skip lorries, so it is really noisy. The facilities are restricted, we found one outside loo but no shower and not especially clean. We had an okay stay but probably wouldn't return.

Great meal and nice site

Nice site and a good pub. Not much else there to walk to, but the Hook Norton brewery is a good place to visit.

Tricky site

There had been a lot of rain prior to our visit and the site was quite slippery and muddy. As it is also a pretty sloping site, levelling blocks are essential. It proved really difficult to get on to the blocks and get level, but of course the site can't be blamed for the awful weather we'd had! The other real problem is that the site is literally next door to a huge plant and skip hire yard. They start very early in the morning - just before 6.00am and the noise of the vehicles is really very intrusive if you're still trying to sleep! The pub is very nice although we didn't manage to eat there. The only day that would have suited us to eat in the pub, they were fully booked. The folks that run the pub (and also own and run the skip site), are lovely and very obliging. The facilities weren't great. The loo inside the pub, which most of the time was accessible, is fine but the other toilet and shower facilities are basic (putting it mildly). Whilst the value for money was ok, it's not a site that we will be rushing back to and I can only recommend it to very heavy sleepers, with all their own facilities, in good weather.

Lovely location

The location was ideal. Unfortunately, after all the rain, the field was really soft and having tried to get on it and got stuck, I ended up parking in the car park for the night. The washroom facilities were well used by others so it was a case of "only touch what is necessary". The pub itself had a great atmosphere and the food was amazing and they were more than happy to make any food choice as a takeaway.

Superb, friendly place to stay

Absolutely can't fault our stay here. Pub was awesome, superb food, great staff and felt welcomed the moment we walked in. Despite the wet conditions on the ground, they have done a great job. Thanks to Nigel for pulling us out 😀 Your family are an absolute credit. Try the brewery, castle, fine distillery and pottery pad. With in walking distance. Hook Norton is a fabulous village. Support local business and have a look.

Amazing

We found this last minute, and was amazed with the welcome. This family run site provided amazing quality food, good prices, and would go out their way to help or advise. We are definitely going back and would recommend to friends and family.