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Host Your Retreat at 42 Acres
42 Acres is a place to retreat, restore and reconnect. We’ll support you to create a truly transformational experience for your guests.
The land here has been allowed to rewild and this can be felt viscerally by all who visit. With a wide range of beautiful indoor and outdoor spaces nestled in nature, this is a setting that invites reconnection with nature, self, and others.
Our vision for food is to grow and eat in ways that nurture both people and planet, and your retreat will be fully catered by our dedicated land and good team.
From a designated retreat manager to skilled retreat chefs, we’ve got you covered. Get in touch in the knowledge that you will be supported by an experienced and loving team.
“42 Acres is a retreat destination of dreams. The team are living and creating a shared vision – to provide a deeply special space where people can reconnect to nature, their breath and hearts.
From the exceptional food, the beautiful rooms, the incredible attention to detail, the attentive and kind staff who went out of their way, to the grounds, the woodland, the animals… what is not to like? This is a truly special place.
I have run many retreats and this location topped any other by far. It is a place of magic and all of my guests were blown away. ”
Anna Anderson, Retreat Host
Our Guest Experience
We aim to offer and unforgettable, magical experience
Dedicated Team
We’re here to support you to create a magical experience for your guests. Our team tread gently, and our intention is for you to feel held in a loving embrace. Our “whole self service” approach goes beyond the transactional and invites us to embrace personal responsibility for our own well-being as well as caring for each other.
Home from Home
Please feel free to make yourself at home. You’ll find high quality fixtures and fittings including luxurious linens, fluffy towels and local, organic toiletries. Meals are served at long tables to inspire thoughtful conversations and deepen relationships. Help yourselves to drinks, and feel free to use the items they’ll find around – from books, to SUP boards and wellies.
Invitation to Explore
You’re welcome to explore the wild spaces, ancient woodland and 11-acre lake that we share with our more-than-human kin.
Take a stroll through our edimental walled garden, visit our rewilding projects, or discover our magical tree house. Enjoy wild swimming from our jetty or explore our lake with canoes and stand-up paddle boards.
Our Accommodation
We host a range of beautiful accommodation options – sleeping up to a maximum of 30 guests single occupancy (more with sharing) across 8 buildings, in 2 retreat centres, on 173 acres of wild landscapes.
Beautiful
Our beautiful accommodation ranges from simple cottages to luxurious barn conversions, from a lake-side barge to spacious bell tents. Our philosophy of “elegant simplicity” is woven throughout.
Conscious
All our spaces are consciously restored and furnished. We use sustainable, locally-sourced, natural materials and sympathetic methods that both conserve and enhance. 100% of our heat and electricity is from renewable energy.
Nurturing
The result is cosy, nurturing sanctuaries that offer peace, calm and quiet. There’s 30 quietly-luxurious bedrooms across the site. We provide luxurious linens, fluffy towels and local-eco friendly toiletries. Plus soft touches to enrich your stay.
“In a decade of teaching retreats I think I have settled on 42 acres being my favourite space. Just the right blend of wholesome earthiness and luxury. My guests loved the entire experience and as the teacher I felt fully supported by the team during my entire stay that I was able to relax and enjoy my own retreat far more than I ever have before. I would recommend 42 acres with absolute confidence. Thank you to all involved!”
Jamie Holder, Retreat Host
Our Group Spaces
Our beautiful indoor group spaces are suitable for a wide-range of activities. We also offer outdoor spaces including our woodland kitchen and sacred fire circle.
Exclusive Group Rooms
Your group will have 24/7 exclusive access to a large group room with a range of seating options, natural light, fireplace and countryside views. You’ll also be able to use various breakout spaces across the site. We provide a projector, sound system and range of workshop materials on request.
Traditional Mongolian Yurt
Our yurt is perfect for a range of intimate group experiences. The space evokes a sense of timelessness, ideal for meditation, yoga, workshops and more. The yurt is equipped with central heating, a wood-burning stove, a sound system, back-jacks and yoga props.
Snugs
Each retreat centre has a cosy snug for your exclusive use – perfect for one-to-one sessions, break-out groups, treatments and quiet time for contemplation. Snugs have comfortable seating, natural light, privacy, and books from authors we love.
Oak Forest Glade
A clearing under the canopy in the oak forest glade, this is a truly magical, elemental gathering space. Gather at our intimate woodland dining area where hand-carved banquet tables and cushioned tree stumps make an apt setting for a fire-cooked meal. Or create a powerful, elemental moment of connection with a group Fire Circle.
Our Packages
Our site comprises 173 acres of rewilded landscapes. In this space we have 2 retreat centres. As such, we offer whole-site and half site packages. We’re also happy to offer bespoke options
Whole Site – Retreat Package
Sleeps up to: 30 single occupancy, 41 twin, 57 double.
Exclusive use of our full site including all buildings and spaces.
Private use of all group spaces including our Traditional Mongolian Yurt & Oak Forest Glade
Half Site – Farmhouse Retreat Centre
Sleeps up to: 18 single occupancy, 28 twin, 33 double.
Exclusive use of our Farmhouse, Rettig, Deer Cottage & Swallow’s Nest
Exclusive use of our Mongolian Yurt & Farmhouse group spaces
Half Site – Hermitage Retreat Centre
Sleeps up to: 11 single occupancy, 12 twin, 22 double.
Exclusive use of The Hermitage, Monks Hatch, and Library Barn
Exclusive use of beautiful group room, library room and dining room
“There is no place quite like it. The land is magical, so wild and freeing. It delivers calm and comforting rest alongside the energetic, wild, and untamed spirit that stirs something ancient within you. A place where the soul can breathe, expand, and remember.”
Chris Geisler, Retreat Host, Men of Earth
Our Food
Our retreats include all meals and snacks from our “Soil to Gut” menu. These are prepared by our private retreat chefs featuring ingredients grown, foraged and wild-tended on the land you’re walking.
Soil-to-Gut
The food we serve is simple, hyper-local and nutrient-dense – a final expression of our land, lovingly tended and created by our land and food teams. We are inspired by permaculture and are organic in principle. Our in-house retreat chefs creatively include whatever the land is currently offering.
Regenerative
Our Land and Food practices demonstrate a way of eating that continues the traditions of the past and supports our shared future. We believe that as cultivate and restore the wellbeing of our planet Earth, we cultivate and restore the wellbeing within ourselves.
Elemental
Our signature fire cook is an elemental, edible ritual shaped by food, fire and forest. It is utterly magical and deeply connective. Gather in the oak forest glade. Eat outdoors, shoulder-to-shoulder around a fire, just as our ancestors once did. Awaken something primal!