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Top End Farm
Colmworth Road
Little Staughton
Bedfordshire (Browse area)
MK44 2BY
Tel: 01234 376426
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Pitches: 65 elec
Open: 01/01/2024 to 31/12/2024
01/01/2025 to 31/12/2025
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| Who's it for |
 Families Welcome |
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 Rallies Welcome |
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 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 |
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 No Kitchen Facilities |
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 No Motorhome Point |
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 Bar <1 mile |
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| Activities |
 Kids Playground |
 No TV Room |
 No Games Room |
 No Evening Ents |
 No Fishing |
 No Wild Swimming |
 No Indoor Pool |
 No Outdoor Pool |
 No Horse Riding |
 Cycle Hire <5 miles |
 Golf <5 miles |
 Tennis <5 miles |
 No Beach |
 Watersports <10 miles |
 Boat Launch / Mooring <10 miles |
| Other Features |
 No Sea Views |
 Not Working Farm |
 No Campfires Allowed |
 Open All Year |
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 Public Transport <1 mile |
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| Date of Visit: September 2013 |
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| Reviewer: Edalton |
3 reviews from this member |
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 Lovely site, brilliant park for the kids, lots of different climbing frames, swings and a skateboard ramp!
Toilets very clean and well kept, just a niggle that the silicone in the showers could do with replacing, bit black in places. Kept very clean though and dry floors considering how many I saw use them.
Shop on site very well stocked with essentials, non essentials and camping equipment must haves.
Lovely fish and chip van reasonably priced visits on Saturday evenings, can recommend.
Only sore point with park was that the surrounding farms were muck spreading which you could not escape from! Our tent, car and clothes all stank by the end of the weekend, not something that can be controlled by the site but it will be a question we will ask when booking next! 
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| Date of Visit: August 2013 |
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| Reviewer: Clarkey74 |
1 review from this member |
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First camping trip we have taken in 2 years and so glad we picked this site. We went with another couple and had 5 children between us aged 9 month to 6 years old. My wife is pregnant and the wardens were excellent in picking out the best spot for our pitch. They even provided additional porta-loos due to the amount of campers over the bank holiday and made sure they dropped one close enough to our tent for my wife's comfort.
The playground was a huge success will all of the children, especially the 6 year olds as they had their first taste of freedom. The playground is ideally situated near the back of the site and is visible from most pitches.
The toilet block was always warm, clean, and the water was hot. The additional porta-loos were situated in a couple of easy to reach places and all were kept in a pretty good condition. The wardens checked them regularly as with the toilet block.
The on site shop is also the local village shop and was well stocked for everything you could need. If not the nearest town is not far.
The chip van was on site Saturday but expect big queues. We drove into town and still managed to beat most of the people in the queue. A couple next to us used the local takeaway service and food was delivered right up to their tent (will have to try that next time).
The field is flat, soft and has excellent drainage. This weekend we had horrific rain all day and night, yet the field was not boggy the next day.
All in all a very good site and we will definitely be coming back in the future.
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| Date of Visit: August 2013 |
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| Reviewer: Sas1981 |
3 reviews from this member |
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I'm staying on site with my husband and 4 children as I type! I have full phone and internet signal except In the toilet block not that I need it in there! My 4 children ages 13, 10, 7 and 5 are happily playing in the park where they have made lots of little friends to play with! The site is fairly busy everyone very polite, warden was very helpful on arrival yesterday and made you feel very welcome toilet and shower blocks very clean and fresh water lovely and warm. Shop is fantastic well stocked and not over priced! We will come and revisit this site again soon.
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| Date of Visit: July 2013 |
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| Reviewer: Glovern |
3 reviews from this member |
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This was our second year using this site for a large group of family and friends. It seems that word has got around what a great place it is - this year there were less vacant pitches! However there was still plenty of space for a game of cricket, football, touch rugby etc. Facilities are clean and tidy and the staff friendly and helpful.
A warden is now in place to ensure everyone keeps the noise down at night and ensure that any fires do not get out of hand. He was approachable and friendly.
All in all a great little site with family in mind.
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| Date of Visit: July 2013 |
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| Reviewer: Nedra1 |
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Having visited this site in the dead of winter and stayed in the orchard area it was difficult to imagine what it would be like in the middle of the summer.
The welcome was friendly and helpful. We were given an extension for our EHU and a very large area in which to site our tents, day tent and tarp. The charge of £12 per night and £15 with EHU is very reasonable and there are no extra charges. The arrangement of the tents around the edge of the very large field and some down the middle works well; there are large open spaces and in spite of a large number of people it does not feel crowded. It is ideal for large parties but we would be very happy to camp here on our own. The main sounds are of children playing happily. Neither our six young grand children nor the adults discovered any sign of barbed wire. We do accept that because the field is so large there may be a little bit somewhere.
We feel that comments about facilities are usually of the nit picking variety and we found them to be perfectly adequate. Paul told us that they are thinking of providing an extra block.
We spent a very enjoyable weekend at this site and will return.
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| Date of Visit: June 2013 |
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| Reviewer: Dillan |
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We chose this site because we’d never visited the area before. As C&C members, decided against their St Neots site as not value for money at £22 per night. Top End Farm cost us £15 per night (2 adults, tent, EHU). We stayed five nights, arriving Monday. Note: during less busy periods, you have until 4pm to vacate Top End Farm.
The owners and owner’s daughters were lovely and welcoming. You find them in the shop. Wardens weren’t on-site during our stay mid-week so can’t comment.
We were pitched in the hedged enclosure with two other units. No one was on the large field. So, our comments are based on it not being busy.
Facilities wise, good. We take the point about there being no surfaces around the two hand basins in the Gents but there was room enough for our needs plus a hook for towel. Showers are of the push-button variety, which are not our favourite. However, the water was lovely and hot and the water pressure very good. There is also plenty of room to manoeuvre.
They have other good facilities too. Internally, there are three sinks with loads of hot water. Ok, they may take a while to fill, but hey. Rather have slow fill hot water than fast fill tepid. Also, there is a freezer for freezing ice packs. No charge. C&C take note. Outside the facilities block, there are two external cold water sinks.
The farm shop is probably the most stocked shop we’ve ever come across on a site. It’s also the village shop and it’s like a mini-mart. Prices are what you would expect from a village shop or, indeed, your local corner shop. Shop shuts at 6pm of a week day.
Site shop not enough? There’s a butcher and a Post Office in the near village, Gt Staughton. Turn left out of the camp site and leave the village. At the T-junction, turn right for St Neots. Pass the church in Gt Staughton on your right, go over bridge and at the junction, signed left for Northampton, turn right toward St Neots. Gilberts Butcher on your left. Post Office is 200 yards further down on the right.
Want supermarkets? Two in St Neots: Cooperative and Waitrose. Drive over the bridge spanning the River Ouse and head left after Beadles department store. Want bigger? Then head down the A1 South to the next junction and take the A428 Cambridge. There’s a huge Tesco Extra off the second roundabout.
We disagree with there being little to do in the area. We also would not expect the site to have some responsibility for what is or what isn’t to do in the area. We research the location beforehand and decide what we’d like to see and do. Consequently, we found a great deal to do and places to visit. Some were local. Others were a drive away. We were there for a week. Had we had extra time, we wouldn’t have been stuck for what to do.
Criticisms. We have two and both are minor for us. Firstly, don’t advertise internet connectivity. There’s an issue with it, which isn’t going to be resolved soon. Take it off your advertisement until it’s sorted. Secondly, improve the information kiosk. It’s not just for flyers for the local take-aways.
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| Date of Visit: June 2013 |
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| Reviewer: Prettyspringflowers |
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Chosen for a weekend away as it's fairly local. The site is quite large and broken up with a row of hedges in the middle. Wardens are very friendly and show you to your allocated pitch and explain your pitch boundaries and where the facilities are. The toilets/showers were very clean. Kids enjoyed the play area. Has an extremely well stocked farm shop on site where you can buy almost everything from fresh to frozen. The only downsides are the hot taps in the kitchen and the showers. The taps/shower are the push type which only run for a very short time before you need to push them again to re-start the water. Takes a long time to fill a sink to wash up and not good for washing long hair!
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| Date of Visit: May 2013 |
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| Reviewer: Bigian279 |
4 reviews from this member |
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This is a large site, consisting of 2 flat, well drained, fields the largest I'd guess to be about 11 acres the other about 1 acre. Most of the boundary is fenced with barbed wire.
The site rules are pretty relaxed and large parties of campers are welcome.
Whilst there during the May Bank Holiday weekend we only saw less than a dozen single tents. All the rest where is parties of at least two families with some 'tent villages' of 8 or more 8 man family tents. So if you want a quiet time go elsewhere.
The site/shop staff were friendly, helpful and welcoming. Sadly neither they nor their warden enforced any of the site rules they present to you upon arrival. Therefore the noise curfew was not enforced and some selfish groups had parties going on until 3 and 4 in the morning.
We got the impression that as long as you used their shop - which was the only one for about 5 miles, they left the campers to their own devices and stayed away from the field. The nearest large supermarket is the Co-operative Superstore in St Neots and is about 4 miles away.
The Toilet block is far too small for the number of campers the site can and does take. The gents had 2 washbasins - without any shelves or hooks for your wash-bag, 2 urinals, 3 showers and 3 toilets. Which was constantly busy and you had to queue most of the time. That said they were generally quite clean although the shower temp fluctuated greatly depending on hot water usage.
They did hire 4 port-a-loos for the bank holiday weekend. It desperately needs an additional larger toilet block at the opposite end of the site.
They don't have wifi or internet access as advertised so should take it off their listings, when challenged they gave a poor excuse and did not seem getting it working any time soon. Plus the mobile signal for EE and O2 is pretty weak in the area and made surfing next to impossible.
The nearest pub is The Crown Inn at Green End just outside Little Staughton and is 1. 4 miles from the campsite. Tip - If you want food on a Friday or Saturday get there early (6. 00ish) and pre order before the kitchen opens at 7. 00 if possible. You could their menu and book view on-line if you had internet access. Just up the road from the site is the Memorial to the 582 Pathfinder Bomber Squadron and the Crown Inn has a wall dedicated to them.
Other than that there is absolutely nothing to do other than walking and cycling around the locality.
Our girls spent a lot of time in the play area with it's giant fibreglass shoe, swings and 'half-pipe'. That was until on the Saturday some “teen vandal” ripped a big hole in the 'half-pipe' which was then closed off with hazard tape at least 4 times, only to have the tape broken thus letting the children climb all over it again. - It stayed that way for a week and was still broken when we left the following weekend.
The weekends had fabulous weather although midweek weather could have been better, it was getting very soggy/muddy under foot, but dried out quickly with the welcomed sunshine. They should however ban commercial vehicles as flat bed trucks tend to churn the ground up when it’s wet especially and driven recklessly.
To sum up we had a nice enough time here - but won’t be rushing back. I’m sure it’s great if you are a large group and go just for the weekend and don't want to go to bed.
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| Date of Visit: May 2013 |
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| Reviewer: Jo007 |
6 reviews from this member |
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Visited this site for the 1st Bank Holiday in May. We picked this site as its only half hour from home and we were able to go for just the 1 night. Even though the site was busy we were able to find a nice pitch. We were close to the play area which was handy as we have a 2 year old who we could keep in sight of. The shop was well stocked and reasonably priced, they even sell refills for gas bottles.
The facilities were reasonably clean with portable toilets around the site. I wasn't impressed with the washing up facilities as there wasn't any hot water. There is a poster explaining there's 'no hot water during peak periods' but when are you meant to wash your dishes? I decided to fill my bowel up with the sink in the shower block, as I didn't want to keep trekking across the field until 'peak time' was over.
We didn't really see much of the surround area apart from St Neots, as we weren't there long enough.
We will definitely be visiting the site again due to location and also there is no arrival/ departure times.
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| Date of Visit: May 2013 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Thewyebird |
11 reviews from this member |
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We visited during a typically rainy half-term and, having got used to the 'luxury' of my little caravan, I was glad I was not in my tent!
The field got very wet, but it did drain between the deluges!
The site is a huge, flat field with some nice planting, which will grow into decent hedges. The pitch we used had it's own EHU and there were plenty of water points. The entrance is easy enough for arriving with a caravan (important for me as I am a novice tower).
Good bits:
The play area was a magnet for all the kids on the site, and being half term there were many of them. Even better, it seemed they quickly formed a massive tribe and my two boys had a most awesome time (their words!).
The site is big enough that people didn't have to camp right next to the play area but you could see it from pretty much everywhere, which is great for parents who want to relax with the kids in view.
There is plenty of room for groups to camp together and arrange their tents in circles.
Camp fire are allowed - you can hire fire pits.
Facilities were clean and spacious. Despite there being a number of large groups, we never had to queue for any of the facilities.
All the staff I met were very nice, and the shop is well stocked.
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As a personal preference, I like a more cosy feel to a site. This is my only negative thought, and actually would only be applicable if I didn't have my boys with me - on this occasion I did appreciate the open vista to the play area.
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