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Bladon Chains Caravan And Motorhome Club Site
Bladon Road
Woodstock
Oxfordshire (Browse area)
   
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 No Tents |
 No Caravans |
 No Motorhomes |
 No Campervans |
 No Glamping Units |
 No Statics for Hire |
 No Statics for Sale |
 No Seasonal Pitches |
 No Electric Hookups |
 No Hardstandings |
 No Fully Serviced Pitches |
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| Who's it for |
 Families Welcome |
 Not Members Only |
 No Rallies |
 Not Naturist Site |
 Dogs Welcome |
 No Dogs Allowed |
 Groups Welcome |
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| Facilities |
 No Toilets |
 No Showers |
 No Washing Up Area |
 No Bathroom |
 No Baby Changing |
 No Laundry |
 No Drinking Water |
 Disabled Friendly |
 No Chemical Disposal |
 No Battery Charging |
 No Gas Exchange |
 No Recycling Facilities |
 No Kitchen Facilities |
 No Freezer / Fridge |
 No Motorhome Point |
 No Wifi Access |
 No Shop |
 No Bar |
 No Restaurant |
| Activities |
 No Playground |
 No TV Room |
 No Games Room |
 No Evening Ents |
 No Fishing |
 No Wild Swimming |
 No Indoor Pool |
 No Outdoor Pool |
 No Horse Riding |
 No Cycle Hire |
 No Golf |
 No Tennis |
 No Beach |
 No Watersports |
 No Boat Launch |
| Other Features |
 No Sea Views |
 Not Working Farm |
 No Campfires Allowed |
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 No Waterside Pitches |
 Public Transport |
 No Dog Walk |
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| Date of Visit: March 2010 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Bigdogandbitch |
9 reviews from this member |
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 Visited Bladon Chains on the way down to dorset/devon, first day of the season but everything was ready for new arrivals, wardens very helpful even though they had problems with the site due to rain affected areas. Stayed here before so we know the area, good local shops and places to eat in Woodstock, Bladon, very good for visit to Blenheim Palace.
Shower block up to normal caravan club standards, very clean and lots of hot water at all times.
Only bugbear is the gate lock at night, you have to undo a padlock to access site after 8/9pm.
Will return again as we like the area so much. 
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| Date of Visit: September 2009 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Kargus |
36 reviews from this member |
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Spent a weekend here, lovely hot weather, and agree with most other comments here, but you are very near Oxford airport, which is quite busy so you get some noise from here, and you are also right next to the main A44 which is very busy so wherever you are on the site you will get some noise from here too.
This site is lovely, but situated in the wrong place really. The hardstanding pitches are only long enough for a single axle, from one end to the other, you don't have any room at the back and your jockey wheel is right on the boundary of the site road.
We didn't need levelling blocks on pitch 43 it was fine. And it was a grass pitch we picked due to lack of room on the hardstanding ones. Woodstock is a lovely little place, and if you have dogs and you want a cafe/tearooms, go to Harriets Tearooms, they have 2 small table and chairs outside the front, but when we said we had the dogs with us, the lady told us to come through the tearooms to the back garden where there is shady spots, better table and chairs, which was lovely to be offered. She also offered a bowl of water for them, lovely friendly service, and the food was lovely too, so that's well worth a visit if you fancy a cuppa etc.
You get 2 keys for the toilet blocks which is good, so one for you and one for hubby.
Blenheim Palace is lovely, but its £17.50 each adult, for house and grounds, or £10.00 each just to walk in the grounds and dogs are allowed. But we came across a lovely elderly gentleman who has lived there all in life, in Bladon village whilst visiting Churchills Grave, and he said if you go up the lane the side of the White Horse pub[which is lovely], and go through the open gate, you can walk all round the grounds for free as its a public right of way and they cant charge you. We did just that and walked round the lake, picked up hundreds of conkers, and walked all round the grounds.
You can also get into the grounds from Chaucers Lane in Woodstock, again a public right of way. We thought we don't mind paying but £17.50 is a bit steep, and £10 is steep just to walk round the grounds.
Toilets and showers very clean, cant find any fault really site wise, we had a lovely weekend, but it would be better situated somewhere not so noisy.
The warden also had this fetish about cutting every grass pitch, as soon as someone had vacated, which we thought was a bit overkill. Also information we received, it seems that a lot of caravanners just use this site as an overnight stopover to somewhere else, as the female warden said she had worked on bigger sites, but had never worked on one as busy as this for overnighters. She had another 30 coming in on the Sunday just for the one night.
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| Date of Visit: July 2009 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: EribaTaffy |
21 reviews from this member |
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If you want to see the ‘Dreaming Spires of Oxford’ this could be the site for you. It is located on the Blenheim Estate just outside Woodstock about 7 miles from Oxford. A short trip by car will take you to the Park & Ride or a service bus is about five minutes walking from the site.
The site is owned by the Caravan Club. It is open from April to November for members only. There are 95 touring pitches of which 31 are hardstandings. Pitches are in two separate areas and are part sloping so you may need levelling blocks.
Welcome on arrival was very good and we found the wardens very helpful throughout our stay.
There is a single heated toilet block with showers, WCs and privacy cubicles. Also a disabled bathroom, washing up/vegetable preparation area and laundry facilities. The shower cubicles are on the small side and the water pressure isn’t great but is adequate and the facilities were very clean.
There are service points around the site for water and rubbish disposal including chemical disposal facilities. The recycling facilities are close to the toilet block. Short dog walk on site but plenty of longer walks in this country area.
In Woodstock (about ten minutes walk) there is a Coop supermarket plus a baker and butcher and lots of small independent stores. In Bladon (again about 10 minutes walk) there is a public house The White House which does food all day.
We paid £17.75 per night for standard hardstanding pitch with 16amp electrical hook-up, caravan, awning and two adults.
Local attractions include:
• Oxford which is worth exploring by open top bus
• Blenheim Palace the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill which adjoins the site. Your Caravan Club site receipt will get you a discount into the Palace as will membership of the National Trust. During our stay the Blenheim Battle Proms took place and we could listen to the concert and had a great view of the firework display all for free. The concert was preceded by an amazing acrobatic display by a lady in a Spitfire and she did a victory roll over the site.
• Bladon village where Sir Winston Churchill is buried in the churchyard of St Martin’s Church.
• Bicester Village for your discount designer needs
We thoroughly enjoyed our stay even though the weather was very mixed and there is plenty to see locally that would make us return.
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| Date of Visit: June 2009 |
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| Reviewer: The Virginias |
4 reviews from this member |
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Lovely site. Very friendly staff and nice quiet location. In hindsight we would have pitched down the bottom of the field away from the road. It did not cause us any problems but it could prove a nuisance to some. The toilets and showers were very clean and never full. Would recommend a visit to Thrupp for a walk along the canal and then a visit to the lovely tea rooms by the car park. Woodstock is also worth a visit.
We would definitely re visit as the journey for us was very hassle free on a Friday evening.
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| Date of Visit: June 2009 |
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| Reviewer: Mig2k_uk |
16 reviews from this member |
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Fist visit to this site and to Oxford.
Stayed for 2nights on our way to Dorset and then for 3 nights on the way home.
The site has very high standards and the wardens take great pride in there job.
We were on a grass pitch and turned the van so we over looked the field in the middle .Then had the front of the awning open most of the time as the weather was so good.
The showers on this site need a little attention as they have no power at all but they are clean .
We have two dogs and they loved the walk through the trees to bladen were there is a nice pub with good grub. In all a pleasant stay.
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| Date of Visit: June 2009 |
Unit: Campervan |
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| Reviewer: H.Brooks |
7 reviews from this member |
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Lovely quiet site with lots of room between pitches. Plenty of trees around the site and open grass areas. Small play area within site and extra play area off one end of the site for ball games.
Wardens were really friendly and helpful.
Toilet block usual high standard with washing up facilities and chemical disposal.
Pitches nearest the toilet block are designated disabled with plenty of room within each pitch.
Site shop sells limited supplies but you can walk into Woodstock in about 15 mins, where there are all kinds of shops and plenty of eating places.
If you drive into Woodstock be careful of the traffic flow as it's a bit unusual in the middle of town regarding traffic direction.
Bladon village is quite small and peaceful but worth a trip to see Churchills grave. We didn't get time to visit Blenhiem Palace but you do get admission at a reduced rate with the Caravan Club.
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| Date of Visit: May 2009 |
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| Reviewer: Sandle |
13 reviews from this member |
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Toilets were locked which caused a bit of a panic for our two young children who were desperate to go! Given the keys -which you need to carry with you in order to unlock the toilet facilities & bombarded with a long list of rules.
Despite this dubious start, we found the site pleasant & clean.
Having to remember the keys is a complete pain- especially as there were four of us but only 2 keys.
We stayed during a dry sunny spell so enjoyed the dog walk and stroll through the field to Woodstock.
Woodstock nice with quaint little antique shops. Saw Churchill's grave at Bladon.
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| Date of Visit: August 2008 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Reviewer: Beattie08 |
24 reviews from this member |
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Nicely laid out site with trees and plenty of space. Good clean toilet block.
Road noise could be a problem, we pitched at the back plot 60 (nice and quiet!).
Within walking distance to Woodstock, with plenty of pubs and places to eat, also Bladon where Churchill and his family are buried.
Well worth spending a full day at Blenhiem Palace and gardens. (£12 instead of £16.50 with your site receipt).
Friendly site would definitely return.
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| Date of Visit: March 2008 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Vickireek |
2 reviews from this member |
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Reading the reviews of previous visitors we decided to give this site a try. We weren't disappointed at the usual high standards of this Caravan Club site. However, our hardstanding pitch which backed up onto the access road was extremely noisy. This road is used from before 6.00am as a rat run to the A44 and throughout the day (nicknamed by us after 2 days as the 'Bladon Races'). Also there is a long layby which doubles as a coach park, but is used by articulated lorries as a lorry park. Being wakened by these starting off between 5.00 and 6.00am most mornings is not a good start to the day. Our final morning (saturday) we thought would not be disturbed as there would be less traffic, not so at 5.50am a dustbin lorry came to empty the rubbish bin in the layby!
The site itself is well laid out but definitely needs more lighting, the only lights around the site were from the hook up bollards, but most of these were not visible as they were behind the pitches.
Toilet/shower block was of good standard and well heated. Enjoyed the walk to Woodstock and the long walk back to the site via the public footpath through Blenheim Palace. Used park and ride at Peartree to visit Oxford, good value and parking ticket also gave us 2p of a litre of fuel at the local garage.
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| Date of Visit: October 2007 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Anita Jane |
15 reviews from this member |
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This was our first visit to a CC site and how impressed we were. The entrance was inviting and well signposted and the wardens on site were very pleasent and helpful. We took with us our two small dogs who were made to feel most welcome and the walks around the site were beautiful, although we were blessed on our visit by glorious sunshine possible the dog walk could become muddy. Showering and toilet faclities were good and were always very clean. Local attractions surrounding the site include St Martins church in Bladon village where Sir Winston Churchill and family are buried and not forgetting Blenheim Palace and grounds which is a must when staying on the site. This so far is our number one site and will return in the new touring season.
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