Sites near towns
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Scottish sites, Stonehaven, Grantown on Spey, Braemar, Forfar, Crail, Pitlochry.
Where is our site in Pitlochry?
Wish there was!!
...no club site but there are a couple of commercial sites there, also a site at Blair Atholl and a site in Perth.
Low season price of £26 for the likes of us with a dog and it's 7 miles from Pitlochry too, a fair bit of a walk to the town!!.....no thanks.
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Three more in Yorkshire
..Hawes..Hebdon Bridge..Knaresborough....
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I also have quite an extensive list of UK campsites which are near towns or near transport links here just look for the green motorhome symbol next to the site report.
David
Thank you David, very good information....
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this thread is very helpful in getting to know where you can find a bus,or walk into a town or village. i will be looking into some of the sites given on here .thank you people will keep a look out for some more help.
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Burrs Country Park at Bury. Lovely park at the gates of the site to walk the dogs and 20 minute walk into Bury or the bus not far from the site and links into Mancheter, lovely site if you can get a booking :-)
and apparently the station to/from the East Lancs Railway will eventually be opened next Thursday. It's only been 20+ yrs in the making
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I know this is an old thread, but I have a facebook group where members post reviews of sites where you can leave your motorhome(or caravan) on site and walk, bus or cycle to somewhere. The group is called pitch and park. I would love to put your reviews on there, would that be OK David?
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In 2012 I started a thread for 'UK sites where no car was needed'. It was a sticky for a long time & I used to periodically update it with a full list of all sites mentioned. Then it was removed from a sticky & placed on another thread where helpful information was stored. Then the new software put an end to me finding it. Perhaps you can have more luck and find it? This is a big problem I feel with this Club & the forum as a whole, such valuable information should be easily accessible to all and provided by the Club. Even when you read the Club magazines touring articles there is rarely, if ever, any information for people who do not have their own vehicle transport other than a car. Regards, Roy
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Just remembered my own personal list I used to update the thread from and found this from an update in January 2014, hope it helps. I couldn't find the actual thread at all
Regards, Roy
England
Berwick Seaview, Northumberland
Old Hartley, Newcastle upon Tyne
Teesdale Barnard Castle, Co Durham
Coniston Park Coppice, Cumbria
Thirsk Racecourse, North Yorkshire
Hawes, North Yorkshire
Knaresbrough, North Yorkshire
Wharfedale, Grassington, North Yorkshire
West Ayton, Scarborough, North Yorkshire
Rowntree Park, York
Beechwood Grange, York
Bridlington, East Yorkshire
Burrs Country Park, Bury, Lancashire
Southport, Merseyside
Fairoaks, Chester
Burrs Country Park, Bury
Chatsworth, Peak District
Castleton, Peak District
Blackshaw Moor, Peak District
Houghton Mill, East Anglia
Seacroft, Cromer East Anglia
Sutton on Sea, Lincolnshire
Skegness Sands, AS Lincolnshire
Milestone Park, Newark
Fakenham Racecourse, Norfolk
Ferry Meadows, Peterborough
Cambridge Cherry Hinton, Cambridge
Kidlington, Oxford (CL)
Moreton-on-Marsh, Cotswolds
Bladon Chains, Cotswolds
Henley, Cotswolds
Cirencester, Cotswolds
Bromyard Downs, Cotswolds
Broadway, Cotswolds
Tewkesbury Abbey, Cotswolds
Uttoxeter Racecourse, Cotswolds
Warwick Racecourse, Cotswolds
Exmoor House, Dulverton, Somerset
Cheddar, Bristol, Somerset
Baltic Wharf, Bristol
Black Knowl, Brokenhurst, New Forest
Hillhead, Brixham Devon
Steamer Quay, Totnes Devon
Commons Wood, Welwyn Garden City
Abbey Wood, London
Crystal Palace, London
Brighton, West Sussex
Littlehampton, West Sussex
Wales
Riverside Touring Park, Betws-y-Coed North Wales. AS
Lady Margaret’s Park, Chirk North Wales
Pembrey Country Park, Llanelli South Wales, off road cycle routes
Tredegar House Country Park, Newport South Wales
St David’s Lleithyr Meadow, South Wales
Brecon Beacons, South Wales
Hiilcroft Cl, Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire
Scotland
Braemar, Scotland
Craigie Gardens, Ayr Scotland
Errol, Perthshire, Scotland CL
Edinburgh, Scotland
Forfar, Scotland
Huntly Caravan Park, Aberdeenshire AS
Kingdom of Fife, Scotland
Maragowan, Killin, Scotland
Melrose, Gibson Park, Scotland
New England Bay, Scotland
Strathclyde Park, Scotland
Silverbank, Scotland
Stonehaven, Scotland
North Ledaig, Oban, Scotland
Low Glengyre Farm CL, Stranraer, Scotland, no transport but good walks
Non Club Sites
Bratihwaite C&CC, Cumbria
Ravenglass C&CC, Cumbria
Ambleside Aire, Cumbria, town centre, no electric or sanitation
Keswick, C&CC
Beadnall Bay, Northumberland C&CC
Bakewell C&CC
St Neots, C&CC
Hay Brow, Scalby, Scarborough, C&CC
Moffatt, Scotland C&CC
Barnard Castle, Co Durham, C&CC
Oxford C&CC
Gulivers World C&CC site in Central Milton Keynes, Bucks.
Country Park Lincoln, commercial
Broadholme Nursery commercial, ideal for Derby, Buxton, Matlock
Hendre Mynach, Barmouth commercial
The Cardiff Caravan Park, commercial
Greenacres, Wellington, Somerset commercial adjacent to the M5, good stop over site
Little Cotton, commercial, Dartmouth, Devon
Polruan Holidays, Cornwall, commercial
Riverside touring park, commercial, Stratford upon Avon
Sandfield House Farm, commercial, Whitby
York YCP, commercial, Stockton Lane, York
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Gibson Park at Melrose in the Scottish Borders (only a couple of miles off the A68) is one of my personal favourites and is another good stopover for a few nights on the way North. The site is in the centre of Melrose and there are good public transport links all around the area as well as easy walking around the immediate area. If you like Italian food, don't miss the authentic Italian restaurant "Monte Casino", which is located in what used to be Melrose railway station on the disused Waverley Line between Edinburgh and Carlisle, but there are also several other excellent hotels and restaurants in and around Melrose.
I would suggest Exmoor House CC site in Dulverton. It is right on the edge of the town so you can walk to the small supermarket, deli, excellent butcher, greengrocer, you name it. Great pub at the end of the approach road to the site which serves good grub and beer, also a hotel in the town which serves bar food etc. to non-residents, dogs welcome in both. Several good walks direct from the site, also Land Rover "safari" type trips from the town take you into the wilds of Exmoor, and there is a bus service but I don't know any details.
A good commercial site on the South coast of Cornwall is Polruan Holidays http://www.polruanholidays.co.uk/ Walk to the village (a steep hill down and feels much steeper coming back) for newspaper, basic food requirements, two good pubs serving food, passenger ferry to Fowey, trips around the river, or to Mevagissey. Footpaths from the site go along the coast to Looe and Polperro, and there is also a bus service so you can walk one way and get the bus back. Fabulous owners, nothing too much trouble, they work really hard keeping the place just so.
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