• Guest guide

This is not camping.
The yurt is a beautifully made 18-foot space with hardwood doors, an insulated floor, a proper bed and carefully chosen furnishings.
The wood burner sits on a very special hearth made from petrified wood, around 200 million years old, and during autumn and winter the sheep’s-wool insulation transforms the yurt into an incredibly snug little hideaway.
In the warmer months, the insulation is removed and the yurt becomes lighter and airier, with additional cooling available when needed.

Your private kitchen, shower room and toilet are around 45 metres from the yurt, in a separate section of the Castle Rocks Cornwall building, which is my shop and workspace.
The facilities have their own private entrance and are entirely for your use during your stay.
The kitchen is equipped for simple cooking, with an air fryer, microwave, sandwich toaster, toaster, kettle, fridge and coffee-making facilities.
Because this is also a working building, you may occasionally hear normal daytime activity from the shop next door, but there is no shared access between the two areas.

The Shippon Yurt is a lovely base for exploring this part of Cornwall.
The north coast is only around seven miles away, with beaches including Watergate Bay, Mawgan Porth, Porth, Fistral and Crantock all within easy reach.
You’re also well placed for woodland walks, historic villages, ancient monuments, gardens, coast paths and some of Cornwall’s most beautiful countryside.
You can fill your days completely, or barely leave the paddock. Both are equally acceptable.

This part of Cornwall is steeped in history.
Nearby you’ll find Castle an Dinas, an Iron Age hillfort with sweeping views and centuries of legend attached to it, along with Roche Rock and its dramatic medieval chapel ruins.
There are standing stones, stone circles, holy wells and prehistoric sites scattered across the landscape too.
If you like places that feel old, atmospheric and slightly mysterious, you won’t have to travel far.