Our Story

A local family business

For us, Blyth Rise Stays is more than just a holiday business; it’s a passion project, conceived over many years as we worked to turn our family land in Laxfield into what you see today.

The ten acre site is something which we have been slowly working on for more than fifteen years. This began with re-wilding what had previously been used as farmland and digging out the lake back in 2008. Since then we have also planted over two thousand trees and hedges to lay the back-to-nature foundations for what you see today. In 2018 things started to ramp up a gear. This involved the continuing landscaping of the ten acre site, planting hundreds more trees and shrubs, seeding wildflowers and grasses, driving diggers and dumper trucks, and laying hundreds of meters of water pipes and electric cables. Then, just as the world was slowing down in Spring 2020, we began the final part of the project, overseeing the building of the six beautiful lodges and the installation of the Igluhuts. Of course more landscaping, more planting, and then of course the interiors. The whole project has been carefully designed with a focus on sustainability and to be as locally-sourced as possible. This ethos stretches across everything we do, from the local craftsmen who built the lodges, to the produce stocked in our (very popular) onsite honesty-shop.

Finally, we were able to open in April 2021 and have absolutely loved sharing this special place with so many people. We are first and foremostly a family-run business, with career-changes for everyone coming together to create Blyth Rise Stays. Sisters Katie and Laura running the day-to-day (with Katie also teaching the onsite outdoor yoga classes), and parents Pam and Mark bringing their working knowledge of nature and the countryside, and incredible vision to make everything you see look so wonderful. There have, of course, been various helping hands along the way from the wider family, be it site planning, interiors, landscaping, photography, building this website, and enforcing regular coffee breaks. The grandchildren even got involved with some pruning and seeding, as well as keeping the giant carp in the lake well-fed!

With a nod to Pam and Mark’s past careers in the fruit industry, the lodges have all been named after apples grown over the years and the Igluhuts after some of the varieties of trees that you will find all over Blyth Rise Stays.

We all share a passion for nature and the great outdoors, coupled with an appreciation of boutique holiday accommodation. We wanted to create somewhere that brings the outside-in, and allows people to reconnect with nature and the natural world, without compromising on style or comfort. We hope you agree that this all came together to realize the vision of what makes Blyth Rise Stays so special.