2025 Monthly Open and Closed CL List
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@Johnny57 Hi, there are 3 Non-EHU that are on this month's Closed list that require removing from your list if you would oblige please.
Anglesey - Holyhead - Hilltop Holidays.
County Durham - Durham - Baxter Wood Farm.
Pembrokeshire - Haverfordwest - Headlands Farm
Plus there are 3 to be added
Lincolnshire - Spalding - Barling Deer Farm. Hill
N.Yorkshire - Ingleton - Keasden Moor.
N.Yorkshire - Stokesley - Howe Hill
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Hi All
The please see below a list of sites which opened and closed in September 2025.
I have listed them by County, Listing town then CL Site. Sites with an * next to the CL name were previous sites that closed and have now decided to reopen as a CL.
Sites opened in September:
- Leicestershire - Ashby-De-La-Zouch - Cinder Hill Farm
- Lincolnshire - Lincoln - Till Valley View
Sites closed in September:
- Anglesey - Menai Bridge - Bron Menai
- Cornwall - Redruth - Forge Manor Farm
- Devon - Tavistock - Lumburn Court
- Dorset - Lyme Regis - Penlong Close
- Gloucestershire - Bourton-on-the-Water - Pebbly Hill Nurseries
- Lanarkshire - Douglas - Collierhall Farm
- North Yorkshire - Stokesley - Greenfields Farm
- Shropshire - Much Wenlock - Oakfield Farm
- Suffolk - Bury St Edmunds - Camping Caravaning Suffolk
Thanks
Maddie
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cinder Hill Farm says no hosepipes. Just wonder how they expect motor home to fill up. I am not in the business of carting numerous watering cans of water. I get they are on a meter, but so are most of us. I also get the request to use water sparingly. If going from home we would usually travel with a nearly full tank but if we were to stop several days we would need to fill up.
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I think it possibly means no hosepipes/service kits left attached rather than using a hosepipe to fill up, although I could be wrong. If it does mean no hosepipes at all, they are restricting possible visitors, as lots of MHs, campers are like us, and merely fill up going out, or coming in before going onto pitch. We don’t use a water barrel or a watering can.
Trend is still down, losing more than are opening, can only hope some are going it alone and not restricting to Members.
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@Takethedogalong there is at least one which is now a small commercial site, Collierhall Farm, Douglas, Lanarkshire, and a couple of others are still showing as being open on ukcampsites.com
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@nelliethehooker I don't think UKCampsites actively monitor sites that close, I think they tend to rely on members keeping them informed. I have notified them in the past that sites are no longer open (this was mainly sites abroad which is a bit different)
David
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Hi Dave, why are you surprised at the way things are going?
CLs for5 vans, members only, and no tents, is a completely outdated arrangement - the wrong sort of sites in the wrong places for modern leisure travel. Motorhomes pass most of them by. Progress is relentless and CLs will inevitably continue to close. They don’t exist anywhere else in the developed world and yet travel and tourism go on without them.
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Not surprised at all.
For years the Club has been crowing about the number of CL's on its books but it's been a downward trend for quite some time.
Almost like the Club really don't care about them anymore.
They don't appreciate that many of us much prefer the smaller, quieter, more spacious sites rather than the regimented overpriced car park layouts of the club sites.
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Hi All
The please see below a list of sites which opened and closed in October 2025.
I have listed them by County, Listing town then CL Site. Sites with an * next to the CL name were previous sites that closed and have now decided to reopen as a CL.
Sites opened in October:
- Lancashire - Preston - Moss Croft
- Nottinghamshire - Newark-on-Trent - Sapphire Lakes
- Warwickshire - Southam - Fenny Marina
Sites closed in October:
- Bedfordshire - Sandy - Dirok
- Derbyshire - Chesterfield - Slate House Farm
- Devon - Woolacombe - Resthaven Farm
- East Sussex - Rye - Iden Coach House
- Hampshire - Lyminton - Taddiford Farm
- Herfordshire - Bishop's Stortford - Stone House Farm
- Norfolk - Great Yarmouth - Swallow Park
- Norfolk - Wymondham - Cavick House Farm
- North Yorkshire - York - Warthill Grange
- Powys - Hay-on-Wye - Ash Meadow
- Somerset - Yeovil - Water Buffalo Farm
Please note the CAMC does not have any influence on the CL price, whilst we encourage them to look at other CL prices in their area the final decision is theirs.
A CL can take upto 1 year to be ready to open, a closure only requires an email from the owner. Because of the varied reasons for closure, some of them very personal to the owner we are unable to share the details.
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The Fenny Marina one looks a nice stop, and a decent price.🤔 We have driven that route heading South, nice, interesting area.
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Starting a new CL/CS must be a daunting task at the best of times and some will obviously survive better than others. As a experienced caravan tower one of the things I look at is the access; narrow roads are frequently inevitable but I I prefer not to get my caravan damaged so I can accept them for the last 100yds or so. I wouldn't undertake the narrow roads to Moss Croft with a caravan and would simply find an alternative. Should the CAMC inspector advise that the access may be offputting to some/many? What do others think?
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I just wonder if the Business model for CL's stands up any longer. I might be fine if its an addition to another business on site? Clearly some CL owners have invested a lot of money to provide facilities but I wonder if the return on investment is justified? With the increasing number of motorhomes you usually have to throw in the conveniece of the location. Do any of you that stay on CL's ever chat to the owners about such things?
David
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How do you know the inspectors don’t already do that?
Perhaps a new thread might be more appropriate so as to not disrupt Maddie's lists?2 -
I sort of don’t think so. People have different driving abilities, perhaps based on experience of driving HGVs, PSVs, emergency services vehicles, etc…. Also, there are drivers/owners with very different outfits, length, width, height, weight, towing capability of the tow car. I prefer to think that anyone towing or driving will research a route, right down to the site gates and beyond, something that is just so easy to do nowadays with Google maps, etc.. Those of us that use CLs, CS sites, more remote type sites have in the past simply phoned the owners and checked out a few things. So it’s relatively easy to check. I think this would be preferable to the CL limiting itself to just MHs or small outfits, which could ultimately affect its viability. It’s no more of a risk than say someone turning up to a grass only site, and then finding out their car isn’t capable of dealing with soft ground, or mud.
You have lots of experience, and don’t want to take the risk, which is perfectly understandable, but I think it’s still an individual call. Just my own preferences, but ultimately an inspector will have taken a look and deemed everything ok. Personally, I don’t want every CL to think they have to lay down hardstandings, put in a smooth tarmac drive, flatten out every incline, alleviate every bend, simply because it’s not what the ethos of small site provision once was, and drives up the prices. There are enough Club Sites and very manicured CL sites out there to suit those who are happy with an easy get to, but others aren’t as bothered.1 -
Remember, TDA, that like you and I, 'MikeyB' is apparently not a club member so the issue won’t really bother him in that guise.
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🤭 Ah true. I had a look at the access, and it would be a very sharp left hand turn into site field for a long combo, if coming in from the left of the property. But come in from the right and it’s easy. Couldn’t access the suggested route, as you say, as not a Member. We always have a look at Google Maps nowadays, no surprises then😁👍
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Might have gone private @KjellNN ?
I can understand Club not wanting to publish reasons for closure, but a site making the decision to come off the CL network, and go private, open to all is different. We have used, still use, a good few ex CL sites, that have done this. Cliff Farm, where we stayed a couple of weeks ago is an example. And thriving…….
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I regularly look at the photographs of new CLs and often enough all I see is a fenced off section of a field - cows the other side of the barbed wire, flat land, plainly mowed grass, no trees, no flowers, no views - and really nothing that obviously appeals or attracts in the campsite itself. Just a section of a field.
Then I look at the location map and often enough there’s nothing much of interest in the area - no market town, no national parks, no lakes, no historic houses, no events, nothing happening.
And I wonder why the owners are opening a CL. What is their business model? How will they atttact tourists?1
