A pop-up glampsite has opened at Pensthorpe natural park this summer, giving guests the chance to immerse themselves in the wildlife and biodiversity of this Norfolk landscape
heralding the morning outside my bell tent. The dawn chorus is in full swing, and shortly after I get up to enjoy it, I come face to face with a wild hare and spot a muntjac deer flashing past the boundary of the campsite.
It sends a little tingle down my spine. The park, which is equivalent in size to more than 400 football pitches, was created 40 years ago by the millionaire conservationist, who extracted a million tonnes of gravel from the site and then turned the former gravel pits into huge, landscaped lakes and ponds.
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