Bob and Janet’s Favourite Sites

Bob and Janet’s Favourite Sites

Here is a list of some of the sites we have found and liked. We like quiet places!

These sites are Camping and Caravan Club (C&CC) Certificated Sites (CS) or Caravan Club (CC) Certified Locations (CL) – the C&CC numbers and CC page numbers should enable you to find them in the appropriate guides.

Wareham Dorset   C&CC  CS. 195/261

Mrs P Bessant 31 Furzebrook Road.  £9 (May 2011)

This is the latest site we have found. (So recent that this was written there!) It is a pretty little CS tucked away behind a terraced cottage but opens out to a good sized Rally field.  Minimum facilities (no toilets or showers or electricity). Five van area is small lawned and surrounded by trees.  Slight slope may or may not need ramps. Site is situated in the middle of Stoborough Heath about 2 miles from Corfe Castle and the Swanage Steam Railway. There are lots of deer on the local heath and we saw one on the site.

From the site we have taken walks across the Heath, into Wareham (an hour), and to the local pub (real ale and food, about 20 minutes walk). The Blue Pool is again about 20 minutes walk.

Corfe Castle is a very pretty village with a dramatic ruined Castle (NT), several pubs and the Ginger Pop Shop (Enid Blyton/50s 60s memorabilia and Ginger beer).  We like this area (the Isle of Purbeck) and go back to it again and again.

This site has a good sized rally area which we think would be good for a Murvi Lovers rally.

Dumfries   C&CC  CS 84/38  Mains of Auchenfranco

Mr M King and Ms J Purser £7 – £9 (August 2010)

A quiet CS tucked away in a beautiful area that tends to get missed in the dash to the Highlands.

This is a site dotted with bushes and trees and has some high hedges providing good shelter and privacy. No toilets or showers. A few hardstandings and hookups. There is a small cabin with local information, a book exchange, and a few DVDs to borrow. The friendly and helpful owners have homemade jams, chutneys and their free-range hen and duck eggs for sale.

A short walk takes you through a wood and to a small loch. This is a good area for birds and there are regular bird ringing and monitoring exercises.   Local area is lovely and the Mull of Galloway as worth visiting just so you can stand in Scotland and see the Lake District, the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland.

 

Welshpool   C&CC CS 126/133  Grantley Court

Mrs C Sanderson  £5.50 (July 2010)

This is a lovely site tucked away behind an imposing house. No toilets or showers or electricity.

We found this one by chance, needing somewhere to stay after riding the Welshpool steam railway. When we rang up the lady she said she would put the sign out so we would not miss it and we turned into a large house with a gravel drive that the Murvi almost sank into! Mrs Sanderson opened the full height wrought iron gates at the side of her house and we drove through her garden past the swimming pool building to the beautifully kept lawned 1.5 acre site.  This is surrounded by hedges and was immaculate.  We only stayed one night as we were moving on but were amazed by this site.

And no you don’t get use of the swimming pool.

Acle Norfolk   CC CL  Caravan Club Handbook Page 423 Upton Yacht Station

Mrs Anne Whelpton  £5.00 (April 2011)

Minimum Facility (no toilets, showers, electricity or hardstandings)

This is all about location. The site is a small field which is accessed by driving through the boat yard alongside the moored boats. There always seems to be something happening in the yacht station with people and boats coming and going but at the same time it is a quiet peaceful location with those big skys. We saw Marsh Harriers and Reed Warblers and numerous traditional broads yachts.

Access is down narrow lanes but not difficult. Although we did not walk from here, there seem to be some good opportunities.

Thank you to Bob and Janet for sending these sites.