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Orchard End Farm

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Canoe Trail also owns Orchard End Farm with stunning rural fields and paddocks and a 500-tree orchard. Set in North Bedfordshire it offers the perfect location as one of our Duke of Edinburgh Campsites. The farm is surrounded by stunning walks and tracks leading walking routes back across to our other campsites at Matchstick Wood and Kempston Outdoor Centre. Facilities at the farm include water in paddocks, dedicated long drop toilets, shire horses and farm animals, and beautiful hedges rows to get close to nature.

The locations of our campsites are 7-8 miles or longer depending on the route making them perfect to link for Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinburgh Award schemes or for school adventure camps.

Matchstick Wood

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Matchstick Wood is a great location to share outdoor learning with schools for a day trip, overnight camp or school activity days. The woodland has
featured in many national magazines and media including Outdoor Adventure Guide, Red Bull Magazine, National Trust Slow Adventures Book, Lonely Planet, Paddler and Bushcraft and Survival Skills Magazine.

Originally a test woodland for Bryant and May Matchstick company the woodland is a perfect blend of wilderness with easy accessibility for students and school trips. The groups can walk or paddle in to the woodland and set up base under the watchful eye of Canoe Trail’s professional instructor team

Our riverside woodland is perfect for canoe and camp activities and was voted Top 52 Things to Do in the World by Lonely Planet and Top 3 UK Destinations for SUP Adventures by Red Bull Magazine. Matchstick Wood is a perfect location for paddling, bushcraft activities such as shelter building, campcraft, wild swimming and watersports. Matchstick wood has composting toilets and campfire clearings with plenty of space for tipi

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Kempston Outdoor Centre

Map Location: 52.1202938,-0.5003506
Location Address: Kempston Outdoor Centre - Hillgrounds Road, Kempston, Bedford, ME42 8QP.
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Available Activities: Lessons and Courses, Social Events, Hen & Stag Parties, Team Building, Outdoor Activies for Schools, Holiday Club, Birthday Parties, Duke of Edinburgh, Airguns, Axe Throwing, Bushcraft, Giant SUP, High Ropes, Indoor Climbing, Archery, Urban Coasteering, Mobile Climbing Wall, Ride the Rapids White Water Experience
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