Mumsnet, the world’s biggest online forum for Mums, have named the Lake District’s Quiet Site as the best overall Glamp Site in the UK.

The award winning eco holiday park, located in the stunning fells overlooking Ullswater Lake, offers of a number of glamping options perfect for a family stay, including underground glamping burrows, carbon positive Gingerbread Houses and wooden Camping Pods. In addition, they offer all-weather pitches for tents motorhomes and caravans.

The site’s facilities include the Quiet Zero Waste Shop selling all the essentials you will need during your stay, The Quiet Bite, an eatery serving breakfast rolls and crepes, hot drinks and sweet snacks and handmade wood-fired pizza and an on-site pub – The Quiet Bar which has a separate playroom with table football and air hockey and pool.

For those in accommodations without bathing facilities there are separate family bathrooms and a family shower room. There’s no need to over pack clothing as the site has a laundry room with washing machines and tumble dryers and a separate drying room.

The Quiet Site is ideally located near to a number of fantastic family friendly attractions including Lowther Castle - an imposing ruin with an enormous children’s playground, Puzzling Place - a fun attraction with illusion exhibits, a gallery of holograms and 3D images and Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery - a collections of fine and decorative art, human history, and natural sciences.

Launching here soon is Once Upon a Planet, a new exhibition running from 25 June to 10 September which explores the impact of climate change on the animals, plants, and habitats around us.

The best free activities, and which are most accessible from the Quiet Site are the numerous walks that can be enjoyed in this spectacular area, don’t miss the walk to Aira Force Waterfalls or the Ullswater Way, which can be walked in shorter sections, using an open top bus or steamer to start your journey.