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hi i have heard some places carparks let u pay 4 overnight camping  off to scarbough soon and wonder has any body heard of this or is it  a case looking 4 layby as we cant get on site till next morning ta

Not sure what you mean marie.

Do you mean to pitch your tent or to sleep in the car/van?  If the later, you would do better and probably get more peace if you stopped at a lay by outside town.

Hi marie

I have heared that you can park in some of the large supermarket car park's if you ask the manager, have not done it my self don't think you would get much sleep if it was a 24h one.

You can stay in some over night council car park's, or ask a local pub, if you have a drink there or some food the land lord might let you stay the night in the car park good luck and let us know how you got on as I have thought of this after seeing it mentioned on a wild camping site.

Quote: Originally posted by marie35 on 27/4/2008

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hi i have heard some places carparks let u pay 4 overnight camping  off to scarbough soon and wonder has any body heard of this or is it  a case looking 4 layby as we cant get on site till next morning ta

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Sorry I was confused there by your profile marie.  It doesn't mention your motorhome and I just read in another thread that you have one.

I don't know the area well enough to suggest a site but with a motorhome I would approach over the smallest road through the most unpopulated part of the North York Moors.  I would be very disappointed not to find a spot that would put any camp site to shame.

Watch out for height barriers and No Overnight Camping signs.  Apart from that, and remembering to leave no trace, I see the rest as fair game.  We are obliged not to drive while tierd, how could anyone possibly object?

If you don't find anything, you can always drive on to Tescos.  I would think that arriving late you could find somewhere quieter than tescos though.  The pub idea works well but you should consider that if extremely unlucky, you could be on dodgy ground re alcohol and the vehicle.