Greyfield Woodlands · Somerset
Ancient Skills.
Real Knowledge.
Yours to Keep.
Did you know you can navigate by the trees? Beowulf Bushcraft teaches the skills your ancestors lived by — fire-lighting, shelter-building, animal tracking, and the folklore woven through it all. Real skills. Taught properly. At Greyfield Woodlands, High Littleton.
Meet your instructors
Real skills, taught properly.
We're Helen and Mike — qualified bushcraft instructors, nature lovers, and parents of three. Between us we bring early years education, ex-military field craft, and a genuine passion for traditional knowledge and folk heritage. Beowulf Bushcraft isn't a forest school. We teach the real thing — and we teach it properly.
What we run
Our Sessions
Fortnightly sessions for families and tweens at Greyfield Woodlands, plus adult courses and bespoke corporate days.
Fortnightly sessions for children aged 3–10 at Greyfield Woodlands. Fire, shelters, animal tracking, and nature knowledge — woven through with folklore and tradition. From £10 per family.
From £10/family (1–2 children) · £15/family (3+ children)
Proper bushcraft for 10–16 year olds. Knife work, fire-starting, foraging, knotwork, and learning to read the land. Not arts and crafts — the real thing. £10/person, fortnightly Fridays.
£10 per person
From field to table. Adult courses cover game preparation, hide tanning, flint craft, and natural navigation using sun, stars, trees and wind. Register your interest for our upcoming programme.
£65 per person · 4-hour sessions
Bespoke bushcraft experiences for corporate teams. Real outdoor skills, genuine challenge, and an experience people actually talk about. Coming soon — get in touch to discuss your requirements.
Bespoke — get in touch
Why Beowulf?
Confidence,
built around a fire.
Most outdoor children's groups look the same. We're not one of them. Our families come back because what we teach actually sticks — and because it's taught with depth, care, and proper instruction.
Real fire-craft, real knife-work, real knowledge — taught properly by qualified instructors, not gentle activities dressed up as bushcraft.
There are stories in the trees and the seasons. We teach the lore alongside the skills, the way it was always meant to be passed on.
A rare combination of field craft and child-led teaching. The result: serious skills, taught patiently, in a safe and managed setting.
Five percent of every session goes to the Woodland Trust. Skills in the woods, support for the woods.
From booking to woodland
How a Session Works
- 1
Choose your session
Family Bushcraft for ages 3–10 on alternate Thursdays, Tweens Bushcraft for ages 10–16 on alternate Fridays. Pick the one that fits.
- 2
Book online
Reserve your place in a couple of minutes — names and ages of attending children, and you're in.
- 3
Arrive at the woods
Greyfield Woodlands, High Littleton — easy to find, parking on site, kettle on the fire when you arrive.
- 4
Skills you keep for life
Fire, shelter, foraging, folklore — knowledge that stays with your family long after the session ends.
Our regulars can book by direct debit and come every session — no fuss, no missed places.
In their words
What Families Say
"My two have been to a lot of outdoor groups. This is the first one where they've actually come home with skills — proper fire-lighting, knowing which leaves do what, knowing why a shelter goes the way round it does. Helen and Mike know their stuff and they teach it without ever talking down."
"We're a home-ed family and we've tried plenty of forest school style things. Beowulf is different — there's real depth here. The folklore alongside the skills is what does it for us. The kids are learning, but they think they're just playing in the woods."
"My lad doesn't take to much, especially anything that feels like school. Tweens sessions are the one thing he asks about between visits. He's whittling at home now, building little fires in the garden — properly, not dangerously. Confidence has shifted noticeably."
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Ancient Lore
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Tree growth rings are usually wider on the south side, where there's more sunlight — read a stump like a compass.
From the field journal · fact 1 of 31
Ready to learn skills your ancestors lived by?
Book a session at Greyfield Woodlands today.
Get in touch
Find us at Greyfield Woodlands
High Littleton, an easy drive from Bristol, Bath and the Mendips. Drop us a message or give us a ring — we'll get back to you.
- Phone+44 1761 000000
- Emailinfo@beowulfbushcraft.co.uk
- AddressHigh Littleton, Somerset, GB
Greyfield Woodlands, High Littleton
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