Our Story

Hello and welcome! We’re Nigel and Laura, the creators of BrackenXcapes. We’ve lived close to Newark, Nottinghamshire, for over 15 years and have run several local businesses including escape rooms, a board game café and aesthetic treatment centre. In 2020, we moved to Bracken Farm in the village of North Muskham to launch our dream business: a glamping site set on our nine-acre field in the Nottinghamshire countryside.

 

We began by refurbishing our brick cottage, The Fern, which is now a two-bed holiday home with its own garden and Tuff Spas hot tub. Then in 2022, we added three spacious glamping pods on our field, followed by Bracken Heights, our two-storey Tiny House lodge on wheels with Lay-Z-Spa. To complete our glamping accommodation, we added five bell tents, some eco-toilets and converted an old horse box into gas-fired showers.

 

We’re passionate about rewilding our land and bringing out its natural beauty for guests to enjoy, so we’ve planted a cider apple orchard, installed bee hives and planted a range of native trees thanks to a grant from the Woodland Trust. In future, we hope to develop a small onsite brewery. As key members of the community in North Muskham, we also love hosting annual events that bring everyone together, including wassailing and our summer Sausage and Cider and Cattalyst music festivals, which you’re welcome to join.

 

Our mission is to offer more than a bed for the night, so we also run everything from yoga retreats to dog-training camps, fine-dining experiences and outdoor adventure activities like axe-throwing and archery, all run by professionals. We love hosting your celebrations too, be it weddings, hen dos, or birthday parties and offer our whole site for hire including marquees and pagodas. Get in touch if you’d like to have your event here, we’d love to help plan your perfect party.