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11/4/2011 at 12:25pm
Location: Beautiful Warwickshire
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The main camping field is several acres and on my visit most of the tents were along the hedge at the north edge of the site (photo below). This area was some way from the DoE party and beyond the hedge there were fantastic views across the Vale of Aylesbury (photo below).
Caravans are accommodated on hardstanding beside the farm buildings (photo below) and EHU (electric hook-up) is available for tents on this part of the site.
The loos, showers, washing-up room and outside sinks are housed at the end of the farm buildings. Everything was clean on my visit, the water was hot and the loo roll replenished. There was no queing but I image the facilities could get quite busy in the high season. Overall, it is a pleasant, if rather exposed, campsite.
Having pitched my small Vango dome tent, I took the dog for a walk up to Ivinghoe Beacon which is less than a mile away. The view from the top is fantastic and two long-distance footpaths cross near here, the Ridgeway and the Icknield Way.
I spent a rather chilly night (see this thread and woke early. After a coffee, I drove to the nearby Grand Union Canal at Marsworth to explore. This is a fascinating area to walk - as well as the Marsworth flight of locks on the Grand Union mainline (photo below), there is a branch canal down to Aylesbury, another branch to Wendover, a canal maintenance workshop at nearby Bulbourne and reed-lined canal reservoirs to walk around.
By the time I got back to the campsite, the spring sunshine had dried the tent so I struck camp. Unfortunately I had an engagement later that day so my trip was curtailed but, all in all, it was a very pleasant little trip.
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it is a nice site isn't it? quite handy for us. We went for a night about three weeks ago, and my husband loved it as we just threw the pop up tent down, scattered the mats and the duvet and then yomped up the hill, down the hill and down the pub. It was absolutely boiling in the night. I woke up so hot I had to kick the duvet off and hubby said the same so think we were lucky! unseasonably warm. I will definitely go back soon. Pictures are great.
