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Wowo Campsite
Wapsbourne Manor Farm
Sheffield Park
Uckfield
East Sussex (Browse area)
TN22 3QT
Tel: 01825 723414
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Pitches: 48
Open: 01/01/2025 to 31/12/2025
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 Small Campervans |
 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 |
 Motorbikers Welcome |
| Facilities |
 Toilet Facilities |
 Hot Showers |
 Washing Up |
 No Bathroom |
 No Baby Changing |
 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 On Site |
 Bar <1 mile |
 Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway <1 mile |
| Activities |
 No Playground |
 No TV Room |
 Games Room |
 No Evening Ents |
 Fishing <10 miles |
 No Wild Swimming |
 Indoor Pool <5 miles |
 Outdoor Pool <5 miles |
 Horse Riding <1 mile |
 Cycle Hire <5 miles |
 Golf <1 mile |
 Tennis <5 miles |
 Beach <10 miles |
 Watersports <10 miles |
 No Boat Launch |
| Other Features |
 No Sea Views |
 Not Working Farm |
 Campfires Allowed |
 Open All Year |
 Riverside Pitches |
 Public Transport <1 mile |
 No Dog Walk |
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| Date of Visit: June 2011 |
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| Reviewer: Lrlamb |
3 reviews from this member |
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 My expectations were high as this site has been highly recommended. The site lived up to all the reviews of beautiful location, great play areas for children including the brook and rope swings and fabulous to be able to have a campfire.
The free soup and songs in the evening were lovely. However, the facilities were really poor.
Not enough toilets and showers, and an old fashioned layout of the showers meant little privacy - you literally bump into people queuing for the toilet as you finish your shower - naked of course because the only place to hang your clothes/ towel is where they stand.
This you could live with for £25 a night, but for £45 plus, I expect more. Seems the site has grown quickly in popularity, so they have put the price up accordingly, forgetting that they have older facilities.
Maybe they are looking to reinvest the profit in the site. I hope so as then it will be a pleasure to stay. Shelves and places to put your wash bag are desperately needed!
Washing up facilities are fine - covered over. 
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| Date of Visit: June 2011 |
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| Reviewer: Sright |
5 reviews from this member |
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Fantastic! nice pitches with benches, tables & firepits. Benches & tales are handmade, very sturdy, attractive and practical.
Swings dotted about for the kids, dog area, small shop and informal 'clubhouse' with fridges. And a piano! (thankfully out of earshot).
Very pleasant & helpful reception.
Log delivery a couple of times a day: good quality (split logs, not pine), £% a decent sized crate. Some firegrates/cooking stands dotted about.
Great pub 20 minutes away through great woods & fields, good food, excellent beer.
Composting toilets and recycling bags provided, though glass has to be taken away; no great hassle as haywards heath etc for supplies is a short drive away.
Lovely relaxing site; even the torrential rain didn't dampen spirits. Paella (meat, seafood, veg) & pizza made on site for Friday & Saturday night, free soup Sunday lunch. And great free soup from home-grown veg & lentils/spices on Sundays.
Not the cheapest site, but very nice & well-run. Wonderful to see recycling & composting being promoted.
Take kindling, no scavenging wood as the neighbours might complain! If you take a tarp, you can rig a kitchen shelter over the tables.
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| Date of Visit: April 2011 |
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| Reviewer: Campsite critic |
4 reviews from this member |
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A really pleasant site in a good location. The nearest pub is accessed via food via a very nice walk and serves good food with a nice Garden.
The staff on site very welcoming and everything is well managed and organised.
They offer home cooked provisions and also during my visit there was soup also served with bread in the evening. For free !
I think the owners are trying to encourage people to meet and socialise together but without the tackiness of a clubhouse !
Campfires are allowed in designated areas which encourages people to socialise with fellow campers or friends
I would visit again.
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| Date of Visit: May 2011 |
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| Reviewer: Bernie99 |
2 reviews from this member |
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After hearing good things about this campsite, I was pretty surprised how poorly maintained I found this site was when I stayed there with my family.
It is indeed a lovely setting, but it has become neglected. The chemical toilet on our field was full (literally to the brim!) on Friday and by Sunday, still had not been emptied. The main toilet / shower block was very unclean, even though a cleaner left it as I was going in, after supposedly having cleaned it (I'm not fussy but much grimness left on the loo seat).
The rope swings were seriously tatty and falling apart and a baby swing seat was splitting underneath badly
An uncovered manhole in a walkway was lethal. If you managed to avoid that, a disused underground cable that had surfaced and been chopped off, with it's exposed rusting metal cores was a very scary thing to behold.
There was a communal indoor relaxing area with table tennis and easy chairs, but the net was held up with sticky tape, everything was dirty.
I wasn't convinced about the site's so called green credentials either - a motley collection of very old fridge/freezers for the campers use, probably accounted for much of the local CFC emissions.
On the plus side - the free soup and bread on Saturday was very tasty.
If you still insist on coming here, you might want to bring a guitar as that will apparently gain you free admission at the weekend, if you have a communal strum and a bit of Ging Gang Goolie 'round the campfire. Although from the bits of performances I heard, I think I've worked out where the seemingly never ending supply of distributed firewood came from!
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| Date of Visit: May 2011 |
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| Reviewer: Groovycamper |
1 review from this member |
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WOW! What a super campsite! Probably the best we've been to with friends and small children. We had a super pitch, overlooking the fields to the back of the site. But where ever you pitched I think you'd be delighted. Camp fires are actively encouraged (and let's face it, camping wouldn't be camping without one!). Plenty to do on site with rope swings from the trees to wood carving in the early evening. There were a few large groups staying in our field but this didn't cause a problem with noise as everyone staying seems to be very considerate. The owners were dishing out free soup on the Saturday night and the ethos of the staff was wonderful. I have one main criticism though, and that's the loos and showers. The toilet blocks could do with upgrading badly (cracked sink, no lock on one of the two toilet doors) and one loo block backs on to the washing up area (which is not nice when you're washing up!). The shower cubicles are very small which makes showering small children very tricky and none of the loos or showers are very private. I have to say that Wowo is the most cool campsite in a very beautiful setting with lots to do on and off the site; it's obviously very popular but please Wowo, re-invest in your washing and toilet facilities as one weekend is enough using the facilities available now! It really lets down an otherwise fabulous site. Will go back but not for an extended stay sadly.
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| Date of Visit: April 2011 |
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| Reviewer: Jessdean |
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An excellent campsite for everyone! I would recommend it for any families, singles, kids, couples of any ages as there's truly something for everyone.
I only camp if they allow fires and being only an hour drive from me in London was a real bonus. Furthering on from the last review I can also confirm they now take all rubbish so don't let that put you off as if anything can't be recycled they stil take in general waste!
Toilets good and clean, portable loo's but with proper toilets (not the plastic ones!) or compost toilets - you do have a choice now. Showers were clean and hot and it was pretty busy during my stay but never had to wait for them.
Washing up area was very clean, all campers I saw wiped down and washed out the sinks after they'd washed up. And the campers fridges and freezers were something I'd not experienced before and were all basic and 2nd hand but were clean (bar a bit of grass - but if that worries you then I wouldn't recommend camping for you!)
Staff were polite and helpful. Firewood delivered to your tent each night which was excellent - but if you want you can collect it from reception. On Saturday night there was tasty soup and fantastic bread (all free) it was all you can eat, fresh and organic from the farm! There was also seconds on Sunday for lunch! All veggie too for all you vegetarians like me out there.
There are some beautiful walks that reception can help you with. I really enjoyed ditching the car for the entire time and taking in the countryside how nature intended - on foot.
I will definitely return to this site, can't really fault anything at all!
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| Date of Visit: April 2011 |
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| Reviewer: Tiny-sarah |
3 reviews from this member |
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Fantastic site, :)
Me and my boyfriend are new to camping (I did it a lot as a child but this is my first time since being an adult, can't say I've grown up though!)
And we both loved this site, it's very relaxed and easy going, we stayed for 2 night's between Easter and the royal wedding weeks, but it wasn't too busy lots of room in the pitches which many have a fire pit and I suggest camping near one it's such a cozy and relaxing atmosphere to have a campfire, plus when we went it got very cold at night so it kept us warm and you cant beat a cooked meal on a fire you made.
The site has loo's they call thunder pot's these are eco friendly compost loo's and have a lot of these scattered around. Though the idea behind them are great, there just a bit too close to nature for me and my boyfriend so we walked back and forth to the more normal flush toilets near the barn. We camped in the far corner of lower moat and didn't mind the walk. They have four shower's per sex in all but they we're never over crowed in are stay. I had a shower in the portable one and was very hot (you can turn the temp up or down in these ones)
The barn is full of furniture and chairs so could sit many people, the barn also has plenty of fridges and freezers for camper's to use. And also has WiFi connection which came in handy,
Reading review's before people said you had to take your own rubbish home, they now have a recycling and general rubbish bins near the reception. And encourage you to recycle.
We brought are dog with us and it's a good site for them too, though you have to keep them on a lead in the camping area's there are big dog walking field's in which you can let them off and has a wooded area in which when we went was full of bluebells and was breath taking,
There's a couple of public walks from the campsite, and we ventured into Uckfield village about 7 miles away so takes about 15 mins in the car, and has allot of shops and a co-op and a Tesco, a boots pharmacy (which we had to use for hay-fever tabs for my boyfriend) we stopped at the cock and bull pub for lunch which has good food and is good value, I would recommend it (also I would recommend the cookie mountain, delicious!)
All in all a totally great site, if you want chilled relaxed and close to nature then this site is for you,
We're definitely going back in July.
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| Date of Visit: April 2011 |
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| Reviewer: Alkarichard |
3 reviews from this member |
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We had such a lovely time there. We have 8 year old and 6 year old boys and it was paradise to them. At weekends you can book bushcraft classes for them too. Great play space in a barn and lots of fridge and freezer space.The staff were really friendly and all the other campers were great too - nice music playing in the evening too. It was all quiet by 10pm and we all slept well. Would be good to use over a weekend as it's only an hour and a half away from south London. Definitely go back.
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| Date of Visit: April 2011 |
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| Reviewer: Hela |
9 reviews from this member |
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Before setting of we had many friends raving on about this campsite but we had no particular expectations. It's ok but I didn't like the eco/organic/tree hugging thing that they've got going on. I would probably go back but only if they fix up the facilities which are not good.
I got to use my new campfiregrill (see http://campfiregrill.Co.Uk/) which lots of people asked me about and having an open fire was great.
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Good range of pitches but you have to choose carefully- luckily we did- as you'll either end up very exposed to all elements or in a wind tunnel.
Free soup and bread over the weekend
Fridges to freeze food and ice blocks
Nice homemade bread in the shop
Great woods and brooks for the kids to explore
Indoor activities such as table tennis for the kids
That weekend they has chicks for the kids to look at
Nice local walks and attractions such as the Bluebell railway
Washing up facilities were ok
Staff responded quickly when I reported the grim state of the facilities (see cons below)
Can have a fire at anytime
Expensive considering the state of the facilities
CONS
The compostable toilets- reeking, and minging- build proper toilet facilities with low flush ones (I think these are more environmentally friendly)
The ancient portaloos with cold tap water, no hand towels/dryer and dodgy showers
The only slightly better purpose built toilet/shower block which at least had hot tap water (no hand towels/dryer) but rubbish showers
The lack of showers and toilets (surely the ratio to campers is incorrect)
Dirty campers which made the facilities even more grim
The 1980's fridges which must have been emitting enough CFC's to put an even bigger hole in the Ozone layer
The 'by donation' thing for wood and bread when in fact it has a single charge- £5 for wood and £2 for bread
The 'don't drive for the environment' but then delivering the bread by a very polluting 4x4 off roader, despite the fact that there were wheelbarrows and no pitch was that far from the barn
Some of the brooks were very stagnant and smelly (of sewage in places) so had to be sure kids didn't fall in water
Campers using the wheelbarrows to cart kids or other things they're not designed for in and breaking them
Not close to any major shopping area
The very expensive bushcraft activities
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| Date of Visit: August 2009 |
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| Reviewer: Rosie36 |
3 reviews from this member |
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We loved this site! Very natural, lots of different fields, hay bales and gullies for the children to play and a Spanish BBQ breakfast at the weekend. Very chilled atmosphere. I would definitely go again but can't as we have a caravan now and they don't accept them :( Sad as it was so lovely, especially having a campfire and they deliver firewood to your tent door every night! Now that's what I call service!
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