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Maker Camp Campsite
Maker Heights
Millbrook
Torpoint
Cornwall (East) (Browse area)
PL10 1LA
Tel: 01752 822618
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Pitches: 90
Open: 19/04/2024 to 30/09/2024
01/04/2025 to 30/09/2025
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| Who's it for |
 Families Welcome |
 Not Members Only |
 Rallies Welcome |
 Not Naturist Site |
 Dogs Welcome |
 No Dogs Allowed |
 Groups Welcome |
 Motorbikers Welcome |
| Facilities |
 Toilet Facilities |
 Hot Showers |
 Washing Up |
 No Bathroom |
 Baby Changing Facilities |
 Laundry On Site |
 Drinking Water |
 Disabled Friendly |
 No Chemical Disposal |
 No Battery Charging |
 No Gas Exchange |
 Recycling Facilities |
 No Kitchen Facilities |
 Freezer / Fridge |
 No Motorhome Point |
 Wifi Access |
 Shop <1 mile |
 Bar On Site |
 Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway <1 mile |
| Activities |
 No Playground |
 No TV Room |
 No Games Room |
 No Evening Ents |
 Fishing <1 mile |
 Wild Swimming <1 mile |
 No Indoor Pool |
 No Outdoor Pool |
 Horse Riding <5 miles |
 No Cycle Hire |
 No Golf |
 No Tennis |
 Beach <1 mile |
 Watersports <1 mile |
 No Boat Launch |
| Other Features |
 Sea Views |
 Not Working Farm |
 Campfires Allowed |
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 Public Transport <1 mile |
 Offroad Dog Walk On Site or Direct Access |
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Date of Visit: August 2024  |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: Katrey |
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 This site ticked all the boxes:
A beautiful location (by the sea!)
Clean toilets, showers, and a great common room where you can do your washing up, store your goods in the freezer or fridge, or just sit down indoors for a while.
A feeling of camping in the wilderness with all the conveniences. 
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| Date of Visit: June 2024 |
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| Nights stayed: 1 |
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| Reviewer: Platypus19 |
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Absolutely fabulous. You choose where you pitch. £7.50 per adult per night - children are free if you have any with you and dogs on leads are very welcome.
The catering was second to none - a huge choice of meals f
For everyone, from carnivores to vegans and all very beautifully presented. Plenty of toilet facilities, though we pitched our toilet tent next to our van.
There is a bar, not open on our stay and there are music events on occasions. Craft shop on site.
Plenty of walking opportunities and wonderful sea views.
We were delighted with what was available which far exceeded our expectations.
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| Date of Visit: June 2024 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: Skidder652003 |
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Friendly staff, clean loos and hot showers.
Easy coastal walk to kingsands.
Decent size pitch.
Track around the site could do with fixing some potholes.
Great facilities for the price,
Would return and recommended
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| Date of Visit: February 2024 |
Unit: Other |
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This site is opening for 2024 under new management, with recently built new facilities block.
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| Date of Visit: August 2020 |
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| Nights stayed: 6 |
Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: Johnny |
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Old school camping with few frills. Rough & Ready campers only.
Fantastic location, views, wildlife preservation and old hippies/ artists running the site.
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| Date of Visit: August 2019 |
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Travelling as: With friends |
| Reviewer: Disappointed58 |
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No one to greet us. Was told someone would be round later to see us. No one came.
Showers £1 for 5 minutes. Reception stated 10-12, 2-4. On board outside reception 10-12, 4-6.
Toilets left a lot to be desired.
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| Date of Visit: May 2019 |
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Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: SteppieBristol |
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Updating my previous review as we did eventually find the facilities. They are quite good - a small gents and ladies shower block (two toilets/two showers each). You have to pay for the shower £1 for five minutes.
There is also a club room with wifi and washing up sinks, a freezer and washing machine and tumble drier. However you need to be aware that its a bit of a trek - a good five minutes walk at least if you are staying in the Seaview field.
I still think it is pricey in high season, although apparently all the profits go to the charity which runs the site so its not a commercial rip off. Outside holiday periods its a more reasonable £16 per night for two people.
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There have been changes to this site since the last time we were here and the last reviews. The views, always a major selling point, are the same but the facilities are even worse. The grotty old shower block is closed so no showers, no washing up point and only a few toilets with no hot water.
We are happy with wild camping so wouldn’t mind any of the above BUT to charge a minimum £24 per night from April onwards is extortionate and unjustified so I’m afraid we won’t be back.
The little on site pub the Maker Arms is closed but it is an easy walk into Kingsand/Cassandra where there is a good choice of pubs with excellent beer and food
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| Date of Visit: August 2015 |
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| Reviewer: EJSp |
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Makers is a site that is all about the view and stunning it is. ON a cliff top looking over Plymouth Sound and the finish line for the Fast Net.
The camp site it self is basic, as previously described Makers is a 'Wild' campsite with everything that goes with it. It was clamed that there are areas with sky larks nesting along with other wildlife to be seen. It is big so no issues finding a space, Not spoiling other peoples views was tricky though. The site did fulfilled our two basic requirements (showers and fires).
The site is very exposed and I can say I saw it at it's best and at it's worst. On our first day it was bright Sunshine and no place could be better. From then on it was high winds, poring rain and fog, lots of it. Be prepared for this, We have a sturdy tent and it proved it's worth.
The facilities in this site let it down, I am one for wild campsites with a mix and mach ethos, but I do expect certain standards. The shower block and wash-up room was appalling. They where superficially cleaned each day, but all you had to do was look up and it was filthy. When it rained, it also rained in the shower block. The back wall is green with algae from leeks and we where lucky that the eclectics where not compromised as it was dripping right next to the sockets. The freezer that was provided needed defrosting badly, we could only just get our ice bocks in due to thick ice.
The Showers worked well, the cubicles a bit tight. For £1 you got 6 minuets. I know meanly campsites do charge for showers, I am never happy about it I expect them to be included in the price. The composting toilets in the field where fine.
We visited the canteen after packing up and the food was excellent and would highly recommend it. We did not visit the hut, but I can say I saw some very nice looking nosh being prepared. Again we did not visit the pub, it look lovely and very popular.
The big question is will I be visiting again. If I have friends sailing the Fast Net again, Yes I will. If not then probably not I know other sites that do wild camping with cliff top views, that do it better.
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| Date of Visit: July 2014 |
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| Reviewer: Madvlad686 |
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I will begin this review by stating that this is a wonderful campsite with amazing views and a very laid back feel. We go camping every year but this was our first time at Maker.
The on-site bar is brilliant and stocks plenty of local ciders as well as some good real ales. The compost toilets are fine and there is a more traditional shower block a little walk away from the site. This is a lovely part of Cornwall and on paper this is the perfect place for a couple to go camping.
The only thing which will ruin your enjoyment of this wonderful camp site is other campers and this site does attract them. In their hundreds. With their children. Their paddling pools, their kites and their dogs. The only thing these people don't bring with them is manners and a sense of common decency.
There are three camping areas to this site and us being a childless couple in our mid-thirties we made straight for the 'Quiet Field' on the assumption that this would be ideal for us. After a 7 hour drive (involving that well known car park called the M25, 30 degree heat and a 5am start) you can imagine our delight when we finally got out the car to find that a family had decided to camp in the middle of the Quiet Field and that their children seemed to have been single-handedly commissioned to provide all the the sound effects for the next Jurassic Park film. Both children seemed completely feral so we decided to find somewhere else to pitch our tent. We therefore headed for the Family Field on the assumption that there would be noise but knowing it would be less irritating to us than constantly wondering why the Quiet Field was being over run by dinosaurs. All we wanted was our own little bit of space with a nice view and the potential for sitting outside with a camp fire and a glass of wine. We don't mind noise - we were not deluded into thinking that the Family Field was going to be a peaceful place to be.
The Family Field was bigger, had better views of the sea and everyone was well spaced out. The sound of the T-Rex family in the 'Quiet Field' could still be heard but at least not as loudly. We picked out a spot which was well away from other campers and made sure that we didn't obstruct anyone's view of the sea - we are considerate like that. Yes there were children playing nearby, yes we could hear them but we were very aware that this was the designated Family Field and so this was all to be expected.
What we didn't expect was that the world would descend on this site over the next two days and that we would soon be surrounded by other campers with no consideration, manners, or concept of spatial awareness. On Friday night we returned to the site to find that a number of other people had set up their tents/vans in relatively close proximity to us despite the fact that there was still plenty of space in the field. Of particular annoyance was a family who were clearly camping with three others who had all set up camp behind us. The Oxford Dictionary defines the word 'Group' as 'A number of people or things that are located, gathered, or classed together'. This assortment of four families were certainly located and gathered together, and clearly had arranged to go on a group camping holiday. So why they were not in the 'group' field we will never know.
Speaking of group camping, Saturday morning saw the arrival of more groups and guess where they camped? Yep. In the Family Field. Although we did ask them not to camp directly in front of us they decided that this was clearly the best place to congregate and we ended up listening to them until 3 in morning, only to be woken up at 6am on Sunday by screaming children, barking dogs, car alarms, car horns and the people next to us having a very loud conversation about the bargains they hoped to acquire in the next Primark sale. We decided to cut our holiday short and come home early - the 7 hour drive home in stifling heat was far better than listening to the racket that everyone around us was emitting. To add insult to injury we drove past the group camping field on the way out and there were plenty of spaces.
I realise that some of this may sound like snobbery but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that other people might have a modicum of consideration for those around them and that 6am on a Sunday morning is not the best time to be blowing up an air bed using an electric pump - nor should you be wandering around the site with a crying baby. Yes we were in the wrong field but pitching a tent in the Family Camping area does not give you Carte-Blanche to make as much noise as you like and disregard everyone around you.
I am going to reiterate that this camp site is great and ticks a lot of boxes - the only thing we would ask is that the owners implement a method of directing families to the Family Site, Groups to the Group site which would mean that Quiet people (like us) can enjoy the Quiet Site.
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| Date of Visit: June 2014 |
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| Reviewer: Gingawarrior |
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A truly unique site and possibly the best and worse site I’ve ever stayed at, but even the bad points, toilets, somehow enhanced the site and made it one of the more memorable camping experiences.
We were walking the coast path, sadly having come to the end of the Cornwall part, and were looking for a site in the area and this really is the only choice. So aware that it may be a bit different to most other sites we didn’t know what to expect, but for future visitors expect the unexpected.
The first thing to hit you is the site is ‘run down’ but this is I assume intended as the site has that hippy vibe. The grass on the site is long and uncut, but this is to encourage wildlife, old and ramshackle infrastructure and facilities are there because they still work and replacing them would be unnecessary and unecological.
When we arrived there was no-one around so it said pitch where you like, and there were three choices, the ‘Party Field’ the ‘Quiet Field’ and the ‘Family Field’. We’re still quite young and enjoy a few drinks and stay up fairly late so chose the party field. We had just set up when the owner arrived and advised us to move field as it was likely to get very loud and raucous, when we said we’d probably be alright he was still quite insistent, so we moved. This proved to be a very good mood, because even the quiet field was noisier than almost any other site I’ve stayed at.
Now to the toilets, choice of composting loos or a very old portacabin. Being a male of the species I didn’t mind too much, but the lady amongst us wasn’t too impressed. The showers were similarly odd, but warm and powerful and did their job.
The real USP of this site for me is the view, possibly the best of any site. You are up high and can see almost 360 degrees, out to sea, into Plymouth and the docks, up the Tamar river, up the coast of unexplored Devon and back down the coast previously traversed Cornwall. Ships sail by and the Brittany Ferry at night is so close and a great site.
Locally there is a nice pub in Cremyl and a couple in Cawsands and the coast path walking is alright, but not as spectacular as the view.
In conclusion, it will take a certain type of person to like this site, it is certainly not for everyone, but if you are one of those people you will love it and it will stick in the memory longer than most other sites.
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