A family place, rooted in Burntwood
Who We Are
More than three centuries of farming history, a family still shaping the place today, and a small Staffordshire retreat that has never needed to pretend to be anything else.
Long before it was a campsite
A family place with roots going back centuries
Glanfar Meadows is a small family-run working-farm campsite at Green Lane Farm, a little corner of Burntwood whose story reaches much further back than camping here.
Records show a farm here by 1700, with two small farmsteads recorded at Green Lane by the middle of the eighteenth century. In those days this part of Staffordshire was a landscape shaped by small farms, pasture, livestock and the rhythm of the seasons — the sort of place where what happened on the land mattered to everyday life.
The surrounding countryside has changed enormously since then. Burntwood grew, mining shaped generations of local families, roads and communities developed around the old lanes, and the wider Lichfield countryside moved through centuries of farming and change.
Yet Green Lane Farm remained.
And that sense of continuity is an important part of Glanfar today.
Cedric and Janine's chapter
The modern Glanfar story belongs to Cedric and Janine Bradbury
They didn't set out to manufacture a holiday resort. What developed here grew naturally around a working, lived-in family farm — a place of horses and animals, children growing up, family coming and going, work being done and people making a life together.
Over time, different parts of the farm have found new purposes, but the character underneath them has remained remarkably simple:
look after the place, look after one another, and make people feel welcome when they come through the gate.
Those values are still here.
Cedric and Janine remain part of everyday life at Glanfar, while another generation of the family now brings its own experience and ideas to the farm.
Across the family there are backgrounds in education, small business, service, practical work and military life. We don't think those different paths make Glanfar less of a traditional family farm. We think they explain why it has survived and continued to evolve.
More than one generation
A family place in the literal sense
Glanfar isn't run from a distant office.
Different generations still live, work and spend their lives around the farm. Knowledge is passed backwards as well as forwards. One generation may remember how something has always been done; another may find a better way of doing it tomorrow.
There are businesses and projects operating around the farm. There is education. There are animals. There is the campsite. There is fishing close by at Botts Pool. And there are still plenty of ordinary jobs that simply need doing because this remains a real piece of countryside rather than a landscaped holiday park.
That's part of its charm.
You may hear the birds before you hear another person in the morning.
A hen may have ideas about where she is supposed to be.
Somebody will probably know a better route into Lichfield than the sat-nav does.
It isn't staged. It's just Glanfar.
A little piece of Staffordshire
The history does not stop at the farm gate
We are proud of Burntwood and of the wider part of Staffordshire that surrounds us.
Within a relatively small area you can move from old farming country into the landscapes shaped by Staffordshire's mining past; walk around Chasewater and Cannock Chase; visit the cathedral city of Lichfield; or head further into a county filled with estates, old villages and places whose stories stretch back for centuries.
That is why we've put so much care into the Explore Locally part of this website.
Glanfar makes a good base for seeing those places, but we also want guests to understand the landscape they're staying in rather than simply sleeping here and driving away.
Still evolving
We don't want Glanfar to become enormous
That's rather the point.
The campsite is being improved carefully, one part at a time. Facilities evolve. Pitches are looked after. Different parts of the farm find new uses. Ideas are tried, some are kept, and others probably get discussed around a kitchen table for considerably longer than anyone intended.
But growth here isn't about squeezing as many people as possible onto the land.
It's about making the experience better while protecting what made the place worth visiting in the first place.
Why Glanfar feels different
There are plenty of places where you can book a pitch. Glanfar offers something slightly different.
This isn't a resort built around a brand. It is a family place that happens to welcome guests.
There are no miles of identical accommodation, no corporate reception desk and no attempt to manufacture countryside that was already here.
Instead, there's a small Staffordshire campsite with deep local roots, a family behind it and people who genuinely care about the place you're staying.
Cedric and Janine's generation helped build that. The generations around them are carrying it forward.
And when you stay at Glanfar, for a few days at least, you're invited to share a little part of it.
Welcome to the farm.