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Campsites Devon, Cornwall, Stratford upon Avon
448217 PostPosted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:36 am Thank this member for this postReply with quote
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Looking at heading down to Cornwall/Devon for 2 wks in Aug. We live in York so a bit of a treck and we have only had a motorhome since last August. Not been too far since buying it, tended to explore Yorkshire.

Some people have told us the roads are a nightmare in Devon/Cornwall for motorhomes - narrow/windey etc so thats putting us off a bit. Our motorhome is 6.6m, so not too excessive can anyone offer us some reassurance and recommend campsites on coastal location, with easy access, must take dogs, have hardstanding and facilities to entertain our 7 year old. Outdoor pool would be nice but don't want to go to an over commercialised site - is this possible?

Also looking to break up journey down staying around Strattford upon Avon for a couple of nights so nice site around here would be good.

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) I recommended on the earlier Cornwall thread yesterday I think meets most of your criteria. It has a pool (though indoor), but its by no means an over commercialised site. Our kids are 1 and 5 and the elder one loved the site, plenty kids to make friends with and a nice little playground. This site is near Padstow which is great for surfing etc, and also near Rock, which is where all the millionaires take their holidays, very posh! But handy to catch the ferry to Padstow from. It's also only 5 miles or so from Wadebridge, from where its easy to get up to Newquay, across to Bodmin or St Austell, and so on. Roads in Cornwall are definitely narrow but we were fine in our 6.9m Eura Mobil, just take your time and be careful.

We live in Newcastle so needed to break our trip up too. The sites we used that you may want to take a look at are Briarfields in Cheltenham, a nice little park literally 2 mins from the M5, which we found perfect for a 1 night stop over on the way down,
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, and on the way back, the C&CC site at Winchcombe, near Tewkesbury, which is about 10 mins from the M5 and is absolutely beautiful, one of the loveliest site's we've been to, definitely somewhere we want to go back to for more then just a stopover,
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. We actually travelled to York from here and it was a 3 hour journey without a stop, nice and easy.

Hope this helps, any Qs just ask. Cheers, Graeme
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and don't miss CC Godrevy for dogs.

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Don't worry about the lanes - if the locals can get down there in their delivery vans (and tractors). you can in the MH Smile . Be a bit wary, though, of width limit signs - if they have "except for access" it's there to stop trucks going down there. If there isn't an "except for access" it probably means the road's not wide enough! I tend to conveniently ignore the "except for access" width restriction signs, because I need access down the road Rolling Eyes .

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Hi

We have not long been back from Devon & Cornwall, had a really nice time.

Some roads can be tight but we managed to get round, you just need to more cautious but you'll be fine.

We stopped at a few sites on the way round, the cc site at Hillhead was nice, pool club and play ground also handy for the Bus.

Hendra in Newquay was expensive and rowdy although they allow dogs at a price. We had a little trouble finding campsites and beaches that allowed dogs but we had not done any planning.

If you are a member of the caravan club have a look at their Rally centre, you may be able to get an some off their Holiday rallies and it could save you money, when we booked on Hendra we had paid £20 and the cc had a rally on the same site and they had paid £8.
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Hi to you all,

Thanks for the advice and recommendations on sites will do some digging.

Will definitely check out the stopovers you recommended Graeme.

Also, interesting about the CC Rallies. We are members although have only just got into the swing of things so didn't realise about the difference in costs for staying over on the same campsite!

thanks again
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Cannot help with sites too much because I tend to go for the quieter ones with not many facilities. Dunno which area you are heading for in the west country but once you have made your mind up and if you do not tow a car my advice is buy an OS 1:50,000 map of the area and use this to plan your days out. If you stick to the major routes, the red A roads and the major orange B roads you should be able to manage fine.

If you go to a site near Hayle, watch your step in the dunes (towans) in warm sunny weather, several dogs and a boy have been bitten by adders this year. Whilst not lethal, a bite does need medical treatment and can ruin a holiday.

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Hi there,
I have not been to this site yet but it's been highly recommended by lots of people we know. It's a CL about 6 miles from Stratford. Look at
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north devon, south devon, cornwall in august ?
n/devon will cost a arm and a leg if you can find a site
south devon the same
have a look around north cornwall the bude /widemouth bay area
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