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Refresh Your Senses: 5 Surprising Benefits of Outdoor Showers

Refresh Your Senses: 5 Surprising Benefits of Outdoor Showers

Splish splash and splash a little more. There’s something magical about showering outdoors—whether it’s in your back garden or in the middle of nature.  At Blackdown Shepherd Huts we love to add them to your outdoor space, whether thats under a canopy or not. Outdoor...

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The Glamping Show 2024

The Glamping Show 2024

Very soon, several of our fabulous Blackdown Team will be getting ready to welcome you to The 2024 Glamping Show, held at the NAEC Stoneleigh, between the 19th and 21st of September. The Glamping Show is not a new endeavour for us, in fact we have been attending for...

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Making the most of The Melplash Show

Making the most of The Melplash Show

Shortly approaching is another fun event in the Blackdown Shepherd Huts calendar – The Melplash Show. Held on 22nd August in Bridport, Dorset, The Melplash Show is a celebration and the South West’s Premier Agricultural Exhibition. Whilst we are of course looking...

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Back to Basics with Blackdown

Back to Basics with Blackdown

In a busy world, it is sometimes a struggle to go back to basics and enjoy the little things the world around us has to offer when you a have a million and one things left on your never-ending to do list. With each hut we design, build and deliver, we put our heart...

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5 Benefits to Spending Time Outside

5 Benefits to Spending Time Outside

There are many benefits to spending time outside with loved ones, and with summer weather hopefully returning very soon, now more than ever is a wonderful time begin planning adventures and creating memories with friends. We have collated a few of our favourite...

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Top 5 Tips for Staying in a Shepherd’s Hut

Top 5 Tips for Staying in a Shepherd’s Hut

Summer is soon approaching, which means at Blackdown Shepherd Huts, we are ready to sit back and enjoy the Summer plans we are creating, including a possible stay in a shepherd’s hut! If you are planning to stay in a shepherd’s hut this summer, we thought a few of our...

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Our Top Tips for Show Season

Our Top Tips for Show Season

Now the April showers have brought out the May flowers, the Blackdown Shepherd Huts calendar ticks over to another, and very exciting month – it is show season. This month, we are at two shows: Royal Windsor Horse Show (2nd - 5th May 2024) and Badminton Horse Trials...

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Ways to thrive this Spring

Ways to thrive this Spring

As the world wakes up from its slumber, Spring serves as a seasonal reminder for us to thrive and grow, just as the world around us joins on this journey. As Spring is now in full bloom, we have collated our favourite ways to thrive this season. Thrive in Space We all...

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Meet our brand new Sauna and Ice Plunge Deck

Meet our brand new Sauna and Ice Plunge Deck

For the past 18 months, our very own Will began a chilling journey of plunging into an ice bath every single day for 5 minutes. He found that starting the day an ice bath calms the mind and can help ease aches and pains over the body. After some time, and revisiting...

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The beauty in colour

The beauty in colour

Building a shepherd’s hut is just the start of a very exciting journey with us at Blackdown Shepherd Huts; the journey is as much about you choosing what you need, where your hut will live and even the little touches such as the paint colour or wallpaper that is...

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