Expensive CL's

I’ll be retiring in a few weeks, and therefore will be spending more time touring. I imagine at that point I’ll need to be a bit more...careful. On the whole, I think CL’s offer great value for money. I think part of the problem is that we all remember paying a lot less. I once paid £2 for an overnight stop, must be 15+ years ago. This was in a farmers field, with grass destined to become hay, it was that long! I didn’t experience many CL’s back then, but I get the impression they’ve come a long way since then. Indeed, the ones I visited last year were all very good, and one in particular was my idea of heaven, £14 a night. It would be sad to see the demise of the CL network, such a great resource.

We normally look for CLs at around the  £15 mark but it does depend on location and what the alternatives in the location are. One of our favourites is £20 a night, and for that you gate a HS serviced pitch, toilet & shower, wifi, dog (s) and awning included and the most superb views across the adjacent valley, with loads of walks direct from the site. The alternatives are a "full fat" commercial site just down the road, surrounded by high trees for £35 a night, or the nearby C&CC site, down in the town with no views at all for about £25 a night. So I reckon that £20 is money well spent! 

Care to share the name of the CL?

Very nice looking CL and not all that far away from us however we need EHU which is a bummer!

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Freddie - it's Drake House Farm, near Clitheroe, Lancashire. Very welcoming owners, brilliant views across the valley to Pendle Hill. We were there at "bluebell time" and the walk down through the woods behind the site was just a sea of flowers.  

Thanks for that 👍

Being a ‘southerner’, it’s not a part of the country that I’ve visited that often (been to The Lakes a few times), but intend to in the future. I’ve ‘bookmarked’ this page for future reference 🙂

“ one to make a beeline for is Cowman's Famous Sausage Shop on the main street.” 

Sounds like my kind of place 😀

We're probably like you, Freddy, in that we tend to head for the lakes and pass the area around Clitheroe and the Trough of Bowland by. (In fact we discovered this CL as a stop off on our way to Troutbeck Head a few years back.) Which is a great pity because the area has a lot to offer, stunning scenery, great walks and some very interesting towns. The walk up Pendle Hill from Barley is exhausting but worth it for the views from the top and there's also a fantastic walk along the valley from Dunsop Bridge, reckoned to be the geographical centre of GB. Certainly worth a few days' visit.

PS - and yes, Cowman's Sausage Shop is certainly worth a visit in Clitheroe. In fact if you time it right, just before lunchtime and you could get a free lunch on the samples alone!

What do you call expensive?? This is the modern world we live in Going back a bit petrol was 35p a litre before that even cheaper wages were around on average £25.00 a week just look at them now!!! Look at the expenses the Cls have. Would you open a CL for for under £10.00 a night.

 

Brian