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Willowmere Caravan Park
Bures Road
Little Cornard
Sudbury
Suffolk (Browse area)
CO10 0NN
Tel: 01787 310422
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Pitches: 32
Open: 01/04/2024 to 31/10/2024
01/04/2025 to 31/10/2025
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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 |
 No Baby Changing |
 No Laundry |
 Drinking Water |
 Disabled Friendly |
 Chemical Disposal |
 No Battery Charging |
 Gas Exchange |
 No Recycling Facilities |
 No Kitchen Facilities |
 No Freezer / Fridge |
 No Motorhome Point |
 No Wifi Access |
 Shop <1 mile |
 Bar <1 mile |
 Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway <1 mile |
| Activities |
 No Playground |
 No TV Room |
 No Games Room |
 No Evening Ents |
 No Fishing |
 No Wild Swimming |
 Indoor Pool <5 miles |
 Outdoor Pool <1 mile |
 No Horse Riding |
 No Cycle Hire |
 Golf <5 miles |
 Tennis <1 mile |
 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 On Site |
 No Dog Walk |
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| Date of Visit: July 2019 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Nights stayed: 13 |
Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: Redking |
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 We have stayed at Willowmere Caravan Park for the last five summers. The caravan park is always well maintained, has friendly, helpful staff and competitive rates including hook up electricity.
The park is easy to locate, is situated back from the road with grassed pitches and a centre pitch for tents. It is an idyllic, quiet site that is also suitable for children. There are no determined playing areas but adequate room for the children to play and ride bikes.
The showers and toilets are excellent. They are checked at intervals throughout the day to ensure they are maintained in their spotlessly clean and fresh condition. There is a separate equally spotless, washing up area with laundry washing facilities.
Once settled onto your pitch, which depending on availability, you are allowed to choose, you are left to get on with your holiday, without interruption, unless that is, you require information or assistance, which is always available from the friendly owners and staff. 
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| Date of Visit: August 2018 |
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| Reviewer: Sharon274 |
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What a fantastic weekend we had, site was lovely, toilet and shower block and all facilities were so clean and had everything we needed.
Owners are so welcoming and we met some lovely people while we were there.
We will definitely going back and would recommend Willowmere to everyone.
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| Date of Visit: June 2018 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Countrylemon |
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We stayed here for a weekend in June (not bank hol) and I agree with the other positive reviews - reasonably priced, clean and very good facilities, set back from road, in the countryside although only a few minutes into Sudbury, quiet and no road noise.
We took our two dogs and three sons and as such, we tend to do a fair amount of walking and exploring on foot. Even though the site is surrounded on two sides by Cornard Mere, the only way out of the campsite to walk is through the front gate. This is onto the B1508 which does not have a pavement. The traffic whistles past at what feels like top speed (it's supposed to be a 30 mph limit but this doesn't appear to be adhered to by most motorists) and when you have children and dogs to watch it's rather unnerving.
Once you have run the gauntlet with the traffic and found yourself a quiet road or footpath it is a lovely area. The side road to the north of the site, Blackhouse Lane, takes you to a children's play area to the rear of Sudbury RUFC and also to Great Cornard Country Park, which is a real gem, with wooded areas and open pasture crisscrossed with paths. Great for exploring and walking the dog.
It's a shame that there is no access to Cornard Mere from the site, which you could then cross to link in with the public footpath which passes along the mere's southern edge, and on to the country park. It was nettle season when we stayed, and we couldn't see much of the mere at all.
The site itself has its own duck pond with water fowl, and also has the odd feathered visitors from the mere. I was concerned the dogs would take too keen an interest in these but the weekend passed without event.
The pitches are a little on the small side but it was only half occupied when we were there so not a problem. There are picnic tables and benches (the kind you get in beer gardens) in the central tent area, which I considered a great idea if you're tenting it. The managers were polite and helpful, and there's info leaflets in the booking in office. We didn't explore Sudbury itself (30 degrees C, too hot for that!) but did go swimming at Kingfisher Leisure Centre in town (Saturday and Sunday afternoons - waves and flumes!)
I don't think we'll be revisiting this site solely for the reason of the lack of pavement at the front, which is a shame as it scores so highly on other aspects. If this wouldn't worry you I would definitely recommend this site.
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| Date of Visit: September 2017 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: Wilkins |
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Again a very big thank to everyone who review sites on UK Campsite, this makes it easy to find the good sites in the area you wish to visit.
Willowmere caravan & camping site at Sudbury, lived up well to all the good reviews & having stayed at Willowmere for a week at the beginning of September, we fully agree with.
The whole site is well kept, the grass nice & short & being out of season there was plenty of room.
The facilities block was immaculate, always spotlessly clean & the showers or should I say individual wet rooms, nice warm showers with taps none of the buttons that need continuously pressing, there was plenty of room for mum or dad to take their children in with them.
Also a very large disabled wet room that required a key (provided free for those who required the disabled room); I believe this is good management as the room is reserved for those who require them.
A separate room for food preparation & two large modern sinks for washing up, with plenty of hot water, perhaps for safety reasons the water may have been a little too hot, but nice to have plenty of hot water.
Although the site was set back from the road by only about 300 yards, it was very quiet & surrounded by trees, on the far side of the site there was a lovely little pond, the home for the many ducks & other wildlife.
The site had a nice level of security lighting during all hour of darkness, which was appreciated when visiting the loo during the night.
I regard the site as being good value for money, the price is the same all year through, no high or low season, at £19 night including EHU, for this reason I think the UK Campsite rating of eight stars is perhaps a little low, as a very experience camper of many years I believe Willowmere deserves nine stars.
If I have to make any negatives, it would be that perhaps the pitches are just a little bit on the small side, but our visit being September, this was not a bother as there was plenty of space.
Willowmere is well situated for visiting the many beautiful little towns & villages of Suffolk, we did enjoy Sudbury, Long Melford, Lavenham, Castle Hedingham, Bury St Edmunds, Ipswich & Felixstowe to name just a few, also Suffolk hosts many National Trusts properties, such as Ickworth, Lavenham Guildhall, Melford Hall, Thorington Hall & Flatford, which we enjoyed.
Sharon, the owner was a perfect host, very friendly & very helpful, so a big thank you Sharon for a wonderful & relaxing holiday on a beautiful site. Wishing you all the very best for the future.
Brian & Martina – Tonbridge Kent.
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| Date of Visit: August 2016 |
Unit: Trailer Tent |
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| Reviewer: Kayak Kween |
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Booked 2 pitches after looking at the write up and speaking to the management, sounded perfect for us. The pitches are small with no official boundry. Which is fine if you have nice neighbours (read further down) First night was lovely, peaceful (apart from the wildlife which is one of the plus points) and the surrounding area is lovely. The next day it seemed the management had agreed to rent as much space as possible! We had SIX large tents on the TWO neighbouring pitches. With around 10 children and 3 dogs (not to mention their loud radio) its fair to say they more than encroached on our pitch as well. The showers were cold, when we complained it was apparently due to the volume of people. Then even more people were booked in! If the facilities cannot accommodate a high volume, don't book them in. We were told that the river was easily accessible, within 400 yards. Turns out although you can see the river access is via private land. So we had to drive 10 miles to use the kayaks. There are no children's facilities but they are encouraged to play on the oval drive round the campsite, while lovely when the are in excess of 25-30 of them its not enjoyable. All in all the site is mediocre, clean but with cold showers and no room to do anything doesn't get a high rating from us.
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| Date of Visit: May 2016 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Redking |
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We have stayed at Willowmere Caravan Park for the last three summers. The caravan park is well maintained, has friendly, helpful staff and competitive rates including hook up electricity.
The park is easy to locate, is situated back from the road with grassed pitches and a centre pitch for tents. It is an idyllic, quiet site that is also suitable for children. There are no determined playing areas but adequate room for the children to play and ride bikes.
The showers and toilets are excellent. They are checked at intervals throughout the day to ensure they are maintained in their spotlessly clean and fresh condition. There is a separate equally spotless, washing up area with laundry facilities.
Once settled onto your pitch, which depending on availability, you are allowed to choose, you are left to get on with your holiday, without interruption, unless that is, you require information or assistance, which is always available from the friendly owners and staff.
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| Date of Visit: August 2015 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Leroyclarke |
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We stayed as part of a group of 5 families after being let down last minute by another camp site, 4 days before BH weekend! The camp site offered us pitches next to the pond area and although not level it was good enough to pitch. We were right next to toilets but this wasn't problem, they were spotless and very clean. There were 2 showers for each gender and sufficient toilets. There was washing up point and the waste areas were clean. I was very impressed.
We, as a group always attempted to be quiet and courteous but a couple of nights we carried on a little later bit there was no complaint. We were left to it from start to finish.
Everyone was polite and friendly. I've recommended to friends and we as a family will be returning. The site was cheap (£17. 50 per night with electric)!
The ONLY thing could be a negative is that there is no children's play area BUT our children were happy enough on their bikes and scooters and playing on the tarmac route around the site.
I know Sudbury well, it is what it is with all the amenities you want only 10 minutes away.
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| Date of Visit: July 2015 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Gewcaravan |
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My husband and our two children and dog stayed here for a week end of July beginning of August. We were made welcome on arrival, left to choose our own pitch which sloped off towards the back of the caravan but this did not cause any problems for us. The washing up / shower / toilet facilities were perfectly adequate although perhaps needed a little more attention when the site got busy. Perfect site for exploring Suffolk and surrounding country side. Our two children took their bikes and the way the site is set up we were able to let them enjoy a little freedom without causing any problems to other campers. There appeared to be a small commune in the corner of the campsite but this did note cause any issues for us and they were perfectly polite when our paths crossed, keeping themselves to themselves. Would definitely recommend this site for exploring
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| Date of Visit: August 2015 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Bude camper |
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This site is a lovely small quiet site. Large pitches and very good facilities. The showers are hot and everything is nice and clean.
Only a couple of miles from Sudbury town centre, which has all the shops and supermarkets that you would need.
Very well laid out site with caravans round the outside in a circle, and tents in the middle.
Considering we were there at the beginning of August the prices were very reasonable.
We would definitely recommend this site. And would stay again if we were in the area.
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| Date of Visit: July 2015 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Stefan yasul |
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So pleased I chose willow mere as where to stay for 2 weeks, all the staff we very helpful. I wanted to stay a extra few days and they was more than happy to let me with some alterations.
The guys who are apparently 'travellers' which willow mere strictly does not allow, as the owner told me the rules which were plain and easy to go by, hassle free. There were some real nice private park lodges too which were in beautiful condition. They were historical builders which come every few months a year, willow mere clearly takes pride in history around Sudbury and were great guys who told me all the places to go!
Facility's were very good, toilets and showers especially, cleaned thorough pretty much every day.
Definitely worth staying here for a really easy hassle free holiday without being hassled by staff and other campers like many other camps. You can exit and return at any time. The grass cuts fresh and pond area was also lovely to see, but safe. You can fish on it apparently.
A must visit for easy going.
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