Set around three lakes on eight acres, surrounded by rolling hills, ancient trails and open skies, Lunar Lakes offers space for people to step away from the modern world and connect with Nature in enriching ways that improve their health, creativity and quality of life.
We run a seasonal calendar of regular, experience-based services - all unique to the space and surrounding landscape, centred around health improvement, community and creativity through contact with Nature.
Lunar Lakes is sort of like a mix between a nature-reserve and an outdoor activity venue.
The site is based around an old fishery in the Shropshire Hills, and covers around eight acres of mixed water, grassland, and mature planting. The three old fishing pools remain as defining features, together taking up roughly a third of the site footprint. These spring-fed, man-made pools are long-established and each has a different character. The Carp Pool, enclosed by a ring of mature trees, holds a healthy stock of specimen carp and is one of the quietest, most relaxing parts of the land. The Middle Pool is the smallest of the three, surrounded by an open space used as an activity area, while the third, slightly overgrown Nature Pool supports a large amount of insect and wildlife, and is left largely undisturbed.
The site is narrow and elongated in shape, divided naturally into small fields and sections by treelines and hedgerows. These divisions create a series of distinct areas, all connected by an old track that runs through the length of the land. A small river marks the western boundary of the site, and also forms the national border between England and Wales. Along the banks are small strips of woodland and riverside growth, adding to the variety of habitats within the landscape.
At the centre of the property is a rugged Courtyard that acts as the hub. Here stands The Lodge - a simple, off-grid clubhouse with a basic kitchen and bathroom facilities, and The Dome - used for gatherings and events. Outside the courtyard, the ground quickly shifts back to semi-wild, uneven, and sometimes overgrown terrain. The grassland areas between the pools are grazed and maintained by a small flock of resident sheep, who move between the sections.
Direct access from the road leads into a small car park, after which the sense of enclosure and separation from the outside builds. Each section of the site feels self-contained - a field bordered by mature hedges, a lake ringed by trees, a pocket of rough woodland by the brook - yet they’re all part of the same continuous piece of land. The site itself is peaceful and serene - surrounded by the rolling Shropshire Hills, with multiple trails and points of local interest directly accessible from the site.