11 places · every place verified by us
Three hotels and eight campsites on the circuit or beside it. Pick by the walk to your gate, by whether your party includes a dog, and by how much noise you want at midnight.
11 places
Camping · Silverstone
A family-run farm campsite just south of the circuit, 5 to 10 minutes' walk from Club Corner at best, open all year. Its F1 page, open for 2027 bookings, prices a non-electric pitch from £140 to £240 by arrival day, and you need a race ticket. No pets, save guide dogs.
Verified Nov 2026
Hotel · Silverstone
A hotel inside Silverstone Circuit between Copse and Becketts: 184 bedrooms in 60 private residences of one to four bedrooms, some facing the track, with a pool, gym and restaurant.
Family-friendly · EV charging
Verified Nov 2026
Camping · Silverstone
A big event campsite on the A413 in Silverstone village, just over a mile from Gates 5 and 3, with tent and motorhome pitches, pre-pitched tents, glamping, a bar, a food village and a big screen. 2027 Grand Prix bookings are open, with quieter and lively areas. No dogs.
Verified Nov 2026
Hotel · Silverstone
The only hotel on the track itself, by Hilton's account: 197 rooms on the Hamilton Straight, many of them facing the circuit, with a rooftop bar, an all-day restaurant and parking on site. Silverstone promotes it. Ask for race rates: we could not read Hilton's site.
Verified Nov 2026
Camping · Silverstone
A Grand Prix campsite on Church Street in the middle of Silverstone village, about 25 minutes' walk from Copse Corner, with a clubhouse bar and beer garden. It publishes its prices, from £250 for a small pitch, and sells only the whole week.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Camping · Silverstone
A farm campsite for Silverstone's big race weekends at New Rookery Farm, about 1km from Copse Corner, with large pitches, glamping tents, bars, food and a £2 shuttle. It sells by event, and dogs on leads are allowed.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Hotel · Silverstone
A four-star golf club hotel, by its own description, on Silverstone Road opposite the circuit near Club Corner. Breakfast and parking are included, check-in is contactless, and the club also runs an official Grand Prix campsite on the same ground.
Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Camping · Silverstone
The golf club's own Grand Prix campsite, opposite the circuit and named on Silverstone's 2027 stays page, about 10 minutes' walk from the track. There are marked pitches from £375, hook-up, bell and touareg glamping tents, food and bars, by Silverstone's own page.
Verified Nov 2026
Camping · Silverstone
An event campsite south of the circuit by Club Corner, for the Grand Prix, MotoGP, the BRDC Classic and more, with your own tent, a pre-pitched one or a bell tent camp at F1. Street food, live music and big screens at race weekends. Interest-free payment plans.
Verified Nov 2026
Camping · Silverstone
A family-run event campsite on the south side of Silverstone village, just off the A43, by the former owners of the Henwood site. It runs F1 camping and day parking and CarFest camping, with a bar and food. No dogs, and no dates or prices are printed.
Verified Nov 2026
Camping · Silverstone
A family campsite on a working beef and sheep farm between Silverstone and Whittlebury, about 15 minutes' walk from Copse Corner, for the Grand Prix and MotoGP. It charges per person by arrival day, from £70 to £130 for an adult in 2027, with no dogs.
Verified Nov 2026
For a Grand Prix or MotoGP weekend, decide first whether you want a bed or a pitch, then how far you will walk. The eleven places below all sit at the circuit or in Silverstone village. Most of the hotels do not publish what they charge on a race weekend, so ask for the total before you commit.
Escapade Silverstone is the one to choose if nothing but the track will do. It stands inside the circuit between Copse and Becketts, with 184 bedrooms in 60 private residences of one to four bedrooms, and one of seven, so it suits groups, and some residences face the track. On event weekends you need event tickets as well as a room, and only service animals are allowed.
The Hilton Garden Inn is on the Hamilton Straight, the only hotel on the track by Hilton's account. Ask for a track-facing room by name. We could not read Hilton's own site, so check race rates, parking and dogs with the hotel.
Silverstone Golf Club and Hotel is the golf course choice, opposite the circuit and about half a mile from the track by its own figure, with breakfast and parking in the price and a junior suite for a family. Its pages say nothing about race-weekend rates or minimum nights.
The table further down gives each field's walk. Walking times stretch on a race weekend: Dadford Road says 5 to 10 minutes to Club Corner at best and up to 40 when the site is full, so the early arrival buys you something.
Choose by what you want from the evening. Hamilton Fields is the lively one, with a bar, a food village and a big screen, though it now sells a quiet camping area as well as a lively one. Silverstone Woodlands has street food, live entertainment and big screens too, and covers more of the circuit's calendar than most. Windmill Farm is plainer, on a working beef and sheep farm, though it has a licensed bar. Pavillion GP Camping is in the middle of the village, so you can walk to the White Horse as well as the gate, but it sells only the whole week.
All eight carry a Platinum rating on West Northamptonshire Council's campsite list (updated 9 June 2026, read in November 2026), so the rating will not separate them.
Only Silverstone Farm and Pavillion say they take dogs. Dadford Road, Windmill Farm and West End Paddocks refuse them, and Pitchup lists Hamilton Fields as not dog friendly; Silverstone Woodlands and the Golf Club camping do not say. We found no inn or bed and breakfast in the village to list, and the White Horse's site mentions no rooms.
If these are full or too dear, our guide to staying for Silverstone compares them with the circuit's own camping and glamping, Whittlebury Park, Towcester and a bed in Banbury, about 17 miles away with a shuttle from the station. The race guide has the traffic, and Silverstone by train the shuttles.
One of each kind: on the track, a suite for a family, a field with a dog, and two that print their prices.
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Hotel · Silverstone
A hotel inside Silverstone Circuit between Copse and Becketts: 184 bedrooms in 60 private residences of one to four bedrooms, some facing the track, with a pool, gym and restaurant.
Family-friendly · EV charging
Verified Nov 2026
Hotel · Silverstone
The only hotel on the track itself, by Hilton's account: 197 rooms on the Hamilton Straight, many of them facing the circuit, with a rooftop bar, an all-day restaurant and parking on site. Silverstone promotes it. Ask for race rates: we could not read Hilton's site.
Verified Nov 2026
Hotel · Silverstone
A four-star golf club hotel, by its own description, on Silverstone Road opposite the circuit near Club Corner. Breakfast and parking are included, check-in is contactless, and the club also runs an official Grand Prix campsite on the same ground.
Family-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Camping · Silverstone
A farm campsite for Silverstone's big race weekends at New Rookery Farm, about 1km from Copse Corner, with large pitches, glamping tents, bars, food and a £2 shuttle. It sells by event, and dogs on leads are allowed.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Camping · Silverstone
A Grand Prix campsite on Church Street in the middle of Silverstone village, about 25 minutes' walk from Copse Corner, with a clubhouse bar and beer garden. It publishes its prices, from £250 for a small pitch, and sells only the whole week.
Dog-friendly
Verified Nov 2026
Camping · Silverstone
A family campsite on a working beef and sheep farm between Silverstone and Whittlebury, about 15 minutes' walk from Copse Corner, for the Grand Prix and MotoGP. It charges per person by arrival day, from £70 to £130 for an adult in 2027, with no dogs.
Verified Nov 2026
Our full guide sets these beside the circuit's own glamping, the Towcester hotels and Banbury, with the traffic each one means.
The races themselves, the museum for the day before, and the village you will be sleeping in.
Event · Silverstone Circuit
Formula 1's British race at Silverstone each July. Silverstone's event page lists 2027 for 1 to 4 July, with an opening concert on the Thursday and three days of track action from Friday, including a Sprint. Its calendar story calls the 2027 list provisional.
Event · Silverstone Circuit
MotoGP does return to Silverstone: the British Grand Prix MotoGP runs from 13 to 15 August 2027, as round 13 of the championship, and the circuit's deal runs through 2028. Tickets and Woodcote Fields camping are on sale; other accommodation is marked as coming soon.
Museums and galleries · Silverstone
The interactive museum of British motor racing, at Silverstone Circuit: cars and bikes from the 1940s on, RAF Silverstone's wartime story, a sim suite and a trail round parts of the old track. Adults £24 online or £29 on the day, valid for return visits for a year.
Family-friendly · Rainy days
Verified Nov 2026
Village · South Northamptonshire
A village of about 2,800 people half a mile north of the circuit that shares its name, with a Victorian church, one pub, a shop and an old forest beside it. Most people only meet it on race weekends. On any other day it is a quiet place and the way to Bucknell Wood.
A short email when Silverstone's stays go on sale and the campsites change.
Escapade Silverstone is inside the circuit, between Copse and Becketts, and the Hilton Garden Inn is on the Hamilton Straight. Among the fields, Dadford Road and Silverstone Golf Club Camping are the shortest walks on a good day.
At Escapade, stays on event weekends require event tickets. At Dadford Road you need Grand Prix tickets, or proof that you work at Silverstone, to camp for F1. Elsewhere, ask when you book.
Silverstone Farm takes dogs on leads and Pavillion GP Camping calls itself dog-friendly. Dadford Road, Windmill Farm and West End Paddocks do not allow them, and Pitchup lists Hamilton Fields as not dog friendly. Silverstone Woodlands and the Golf Club camping do not say on the pages we read, so ask.
Dadford Road, Windmill Farm and Pavillion GP Camping print theirs, and the listings have them. The first two charge by the day you arrive, so a late arrival pays less. Pavillion sells only the whole week.
Dadford Road is open all year for general camping, and asks you to ring first in winter. The other fields sell by event, and West End Paddocks did not open for MotoGP in 2025, so check each one for your race.
Stay here to walk to the gates. Stay in Banbury, about 17 miles away, for a town, restaurants and Silverstone's shuttle bus from the station, booked ahead, and accept a longer day. Our comparison sets out the trade.
A village of about 2,800 people half a mile north of the circuit that shares its name, with a Victorian church, one pub, a shop and an old forest beside it. Most people only meet it on race weekends. On any other day it is a quiet place and the way to Bucknell Wood.
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