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Parkers Farm Holiday Park
Higher Mead Farm
Ashburton
South Devon (Browse area)
TQ13 7LJ
Tel: 01364 654869
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Pitches: 100
Open: 30/03/2024 to 31/10/2024
30/03/2025 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 |
 Baby Changing Facilities |
 Laundry On Site |
 Drinking Water |
 Disabled Friendly |
 Chemical Disposal |
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 No Kitchen Facilities |
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 Shop On Site |
 Bar On Site |
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| Activities |
 Kids Playground |
 TV Room |
 Games Room |
 Evening Entertainment |
 Fishing <5 miles |
 No Wild Swimming |
 No Indoor Pool |
 Outdoor Pool <5 miles |
 Horse Riding <5 miles |
 No Cycle Hire |
 Golf <5 miles |
 Tennis <5 miles |
 Beach <10 miles |
 Watersports <10 miles |
 No Boat Launch |
| Other Features |
 No Sea Views |
 Not Working Farm |
 No 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: July 2011 |
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| Reviewer: KJSee |
3 reviews from this member |
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 This is a lovely site and the staff were friendly and helpful. The pitches were really spacious and level with lots of play area around for the kids.
The facilities are clean and modern and adequate for the number of people on the site. The kids playground is great with large trampolines particularly enjoyed.
We had three adjoining pitches with seven adults, six kids and two dogs and everyone had a great time.
Anyone at the site should make sure they visit Stover Park which was lovely and a great place for children and dogs to run off some energy.
Will definitely go again. 
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| Date of Visit: May 2011 |
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| Reviewer: Roba2728 |
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Stayed at this site over the Whitsun bank holiday weekend for 4 nights. All the staff very friendly and helpful. Although a very hilly site all the pitches are big and flat but make sure you have a long enough lead for your hook up. Excellent for visiting Torquay Brixham and Paignton including Paignton zoo. Showers and toilets always clean even when site was busy. 4 playgrounds for the kids. Good clubhouse with bar and great food all reasonably priced, low key entertainment, bingo and a quiz when we were there. Owners even take children on a farm walk with a tractor ride. Overall a really good site ideally placed reasonably priced and in a great location.
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| Date of Visit: August 2010 |
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| Reviewer: Thelancashires |
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Just returned from this site and what a fantastic place it is. Our family of five plus dog spent 3 days with friends here and had an amazing time. Spacious pitches, clean facilities, glorious views over Dartmoor and of course the lovely weather helped a lot. The family that run the park are very friendly and helpful. Our dog had a great time walking over the moors, wading through rivers and running through the forests. The children loved the trampolines, climbing frames, slides, swings, amusements. There are lots of farm animals, including pigs, ponies, goats, calves, sheep, lambs, ducks, chickens. The restaurant 'Miss Piggy's' served lovely home cooked food at reasonable prices and our dog was welcome in 'The Oak Room' part of the restaurant. We are definitely going to book again for next year.
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| Date of Visit: August 2010 |
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| Reviewer: Ejb20 |
3 reviews from this member |
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This is the second year running we have been to parkers farm and we cant fault it once again.
It is fantastic for kids farm walks, tractor rides, light entertainment etc.
The toilets are the best I have seen, the clubhouse is great,good food and good service.
Its a great site if you have dogs, big fields and a separate room to take dogs in the pub.
There is a shop on site that is well stocked, a launderette and a large playground for the children.
Its quite central to get places, some people complain there is noise from the motorway but we haven't been affected by it. The countryside around is breathtaking.
You can visit nearby river dart adventures and have a full day there and it is not far from Looe in Cornwall (about half an hours drive).
We will be booking to go again next year.
A treasure of a site
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| Date of Visit: August 2010 |
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| Reviewer: Beckywellsearp |
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Fantastic site, we felt very welcome and in general the site was really friendly, there are a lots of returning and seasonal customers which helps to make it friendly.
The two toilet/shower blocks were great, we did have to wait at busy times but never long, they were very clean and the family rooms were well organised, with a large belfast sink which my four year old fit in. The playground was well used although the trampolines looked a bit scary, best just to stay in the bar and not watch! The site uses a card access system which you leave a £10 deposit for, this was great as it gave extra security.
The pitches are on a terraced hill side with good tarmacked roads for access, and good size pitches, it did get a bit windy at times, but we had full sun, and the evenings were lovely. The site shop has what you need and stays open till 9, the laundry was fantastic plenty of washers and dryers as well as a free iron and board (we didn't use the iron!)
There is something on every night in the bar, as well as farm walks and tractor rides for the children, the notice board informed you of the different events, there is a playroom just with a few toys, its great if you have little ones, and a room in the lower floor with pool tables and machines, you could leave a small deposit for the cues and table tennis which was outside.
We ate in the bar on the last night, the food was lovely, freash veg, and all local. Loads to do near by, Plymouth, Exeter, Paighton, all within half an hour in the car. We walked into Ashburton one day (I did have to carry my 4 year old back some of the way). We were there two weeks and could still find more to do. If you have young kids I would recommend Woodlands we spent the day there it was really good, my 12 year old also enjoyed it.
Not much on the down side about the site really, one thing we did notice, which was really a personal thing, we were pitched with the caravans, if you want electric you are all put together, where we normally find ourselves in a large field with hookup, we did miss the camaraderie of being in the camping field, I think the kids would have mixed better, rather than in regimented rows. We have already discussed booking again next year. I hope that's helped.
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| Date of Visit: August 2010 |
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| Reviewer: The cartwrights |
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This site is one of the best sites we have visited. The layout was perfect; the play areas were not too close to the pitches, there were two wash/toilet facilities so if one block was being cleaned the other was available and the pitches seemed relatively private (not too open plan). There were plenty of washing machines and tumble driers, the staff were very friendly and the kids loved the farm tour, feeding and handling a variety of small animals. We will definitely stay here if we visit Devon again.
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| Date of Visit: August 2010 |
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| Reviewer: Denise406 |
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Have just returned from a 5 night stay at this site,this was a last minute booking and was a considerable 8 hour dive from home, we were a little worried about the mixed reviews, but headed there anyway.
The directions to the site are fine, as it is just of the A38. The road leading up is slightly narrow but with care shouldn't cause any problems. The welcome you receive when you get there is great, you get a map of the site a menu for the bar/restaurant and driven up to your plot and shown where the site's facilities are.
We were J1 and I have to say for us was perfect.
POSITIVES: Toilet block clean and modern, good shower facilities, Excellent family bathroom, Good wash up facilities undercover. Miss piggys bar/ restaurant good value for money, excellent potion size. All of the staff are very friendly and helpful and always seem to be smiling.
Really good Laundry room and information room containing plenty to do in the surrounding area.
Adequate shop for essential items. Great children's play area down near the front reception with other smaller area's dotted around the park. Fantastic farm walk which the kids loved.
NEGATIVES: Ok you are near the A38 and you can hear the traffic noise, but it really isn't that bad. The site is graduated on a hill and is a bit of a walk to the top, But the views are Fantastic and worth it.
For us this site is a Fantastic family site and the only suggestion I would make is to have miss piggys open at lunchtime.
Thank you Parkers for a great stay.
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| Date of Visit: July 2010 |
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| Reviewer: Karen Christou |
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We spent a week here (myself, husband and 15 year old daughter) sandwiched between my sister and her family in their spacious tent and my brother and his wife plus 3 dogs in their caravan. Our pitch had EHU though we didn't use this but we wanted to all be together and my brother's caravan needed this.
Campsite owners were very friendly and especially helpful as we arrived without our tentpoles at 6.30pm on a Saturday evening after a 200 mile drive! They gave us very handy directions to shops in Newton Abbot where we managed to buy an emergency tent!
The Campsite is lovely on the side of a hill and there was plenty of interest for my sister's children who are 5 and 8. Lots of farm animals and tractor rides arranged on site and there was a sow with about 10 little piglets during our stay. Showers, toilets and washing up facilities are probably the best we've ever seen on a UK campsite. And the site organises evening activities in their bar and games room. We attended the Quiz night and the Bingo evening which was fun! It's an added attraction especially if the weather is bad, though we had lovely weather just about all week. Our pitch seemed to have sunshine until about 8:30pm/9pm which was great for BBQ evenings outside our tent.
The only downside was the noise from the dual carriageway (which we did know about) but when we arrived I had hoped would not have been so noticeable. The A38 is pretty busy just about all day, especially noticeable in the mornings as we were waking up. It is the only thing that would put me off going again as it makes you feel as if you are not in the middle of the countryside and that is one of the things I most like about camping. I think also that if we went on our own, we would pitch in the tent field as we tended to be surrounded by caravans and missed the camaraderie of campers sitting outside their tents in the evening, though we did have family to make up for this.
There's plenty to do in the area and the countryside is just stunning. We had a day trip to Exeter and a couple of afternoons on the beach. We liked Teignmouth and spent a whole day exploring Dartmoor. And we can thoroughly recommend 'The Welcome Stranger Inn' at Liverton. It's run by a Dutch couple who were very friendly and the food was a little different from typical pub food.
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| Reviewer: Napped |
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We stayed here for a Friday and Saturday night in early July, the site wasn't full, and it wasn't a problem turning up without booking at 8 o'clock on a Friday night. Reasonably priced at £9 per night for 2 people, a tent and car (non electric pitch).
The site was very easy to find off of the A38. But this proximity to the main road meant that there was constant traffic noise. It didn't interfere with sleeping, but it definitely didn't make for a peaceful stay.
Facilities wise, you couldn't ask for more. Clean and modern (one modern, one less modern) toilet blocks with nice hot water, a pub, restaurant, shop (I don't know how well stocked) and a handy little room with info on local attractions. It seems a great site for kids too, with play areas, trampolines, farm animals and rabbits.
There isn't much in the immediate area, Ashburton town is roughly 1.5 miles away (with bakeries, pubs and a small somerfield). There is also a nice pub called the rising sun inn about a mile away from the campsite.
Of course if you hop in the car, Dartmoor and the rest of South Devon are a short drive away.
I would definitely recommend the site if you don't mind the traffic noise, but I probably wouldn't go back for that reason.
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| Date of Visit: June 2010 |
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| Reviewer: Hornetsnest |
4 reviews from this member |
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What a wonderful site! Everything about it is well thought out and well organised (a week of superb weather always helps of course).
The tiered pitches were well spaced and gave great views over the Devon countryside; the toilet / shower / rubbish / elsan facilities were the smartest and cleanest I've seen; the bar and restaurant were everything we'd want; and the facilities for children were excellent (good play area full of trampolines, a playroom and games room in the club house, and plenty of space to run around).
Staff are friendly and helpful, and the site is well placed for the wonderful coast and countryside in this area.
The only criticism might be the traffic noise from the A38 (which cuts through the valley immediately below the site). We only really noticed the noise at night, but it didn't stop me sleeping and certainly wouldn't stop me going back. It's a real 10/10 site.
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