Stop-offs at NT and EH properties
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JVB. You are perhaps confusing my post with using the CL and using the car park at Stourhead? The CL is fine for caravans but stop off parking in the car park would be more difficult, the designated area for larger motorhomes is in the fairly restricted coach park area, I'm sure you could get a caravan in there but it can get congested.
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yes, Brue, that gives the necessary info but you arrive there either by knowing you're looking for Stourhead or by some other area search on the CC site...
whats needed is a concise list/link on either the club website or the NT website or both.
the club knows which NT owned CLs it's issued a certificate to, equally the NT knows which of its sites are classified (and certificated as) CLs.
is it really that difficult?
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Site searches are the only thing that work in the search box, top right. I just typed in Stourhead and it's there, also via the Uk Holidays header, then Cls. It's under the county...Wilts- town...Mere- then Stourhead...But I'm not saying it's easy to find, the search box is the quickest route.
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BB, I think that the 2 N/T CLs that brue listed are the only two, although the N/T do have a caravan site at Houghton Mill, Cambridgeshire.....it's millie's bolt hole.
There's also the one at Dolaucothi that's still a CC listed site,opposite the Gold Mines.0 -
Thanks for the link. Found good info re NT parking.Will look at other things there when have more time.
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the N/T do have a caravan site at Houghton Mill, Cambridgeshire..
That's the one in The Caravan Club's towing video of years gone by.
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Not sure if Sudley Castle will be open to the public anymore. It’s been bought out by the Warner’s group and is now a hotel.
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No height barriers at Osbourne House
Audley house has a large parking area.
When we visited Warwick Castle there was a caravan parked in the car park.
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'Many of our campsites welcome campervans and motorhomes, and some have pitches for caravans. '
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/holiday-lists/caravans-campervans-and-motorhomes
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"Not sure if Studley Castle will be open to the public anymore. It’s been bought out by the Warner’s group and is now a hotel."
True. Opening weekend 1st March 2019.
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we have come full circle....this is exactly the NT page that doesn't list the CLs....no mention of Stourhead or Kingston Lacy...
just one list, somewhere would be good...
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It lists one, but it’s not a CL, it’s a CS, Buckden Pike, Yorkshire.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/holidays/buckden-camping-heber-farm
Perhaps NT considers CLs restrictive? Tourers yes, but camping, no.
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You are mixing up two different places I think AS, Sudeley Castle is in Gloucestershire, owned by the Dent family (think gloves) Studley Castle is in Warwickshire, and is indeed a Warner’s Hotel
We bought our MH from a very good private dealer in Studley!
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You'd struggle getting a caravan up to Sudeley Castle, as the lane down to the castle drive is lined by residents' parked cars, however there's plenty of room for M/Hs on the car park. HHA members get in to the hose for free.....we were the 3 days ago.
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Thirsty work, is it?
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I think we got diverted in Nellie, but we did the little lanes route from over at Notgrove Club Site. Agree, tight with a big van in tow.
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Yes you’re right. That’s good to know.
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On a visit to Hadrian's Wall at the weekend we decided to join EH, the car parks are a reasonable size along the wall. I noted that if you bought a ticket in one of the carparks it could be re-used on the same day at other car parks, quite expensive stop offs otherwise. At this time of the year there is room for a variety of vans in the car parks so stopping off should be fairly easy. I think the summer months and school holidays would be more of a challenge.
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All this discussion suggests, Joshnosh, that your OP is a thoroughly useful idea, thanks! I'd welcome such a list.
We thought of using an NT car park, not one at a building property ... sorry, I forget its name now... as a place to pause & eat en route earlier this year, and it took quite some research to establish that we probably wouldn't be able to get our towed caravan in there. In our case it'll pass a 2m barrier, but Google Earth showed there to be no room for turning, so we were glad we didn't, and now we tend to assume we'll not be able to get in these places. A list such as you propose would have helped.
Warwick Castle got mentioned along the way. Last time I worked there, a few years back, it wasn't EH or NT, it was owned by the same group who own Madame Tussaud's and Alton Towers. And the ticket price was eye-watering. (Not because they paid their historical interpreters fat fees, I might add!)
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