How do you search for a CL?

Can UKCampsite.co.uk help you?

 The campsite search facility there offers a search by map option - what they call Method 3. If you click on their map roughly where you think Retford is it shows almost all the campsites in that area - from both the Clubs and the non Club sites too. Your CL might be there. 

From Search Map.

Put in location Retford, click show Certificated Locations and then click search.

Comes up as 37 locations within 20 miles of "Retford" in list form. Zoom in on the map.

Some good locations there. Skybarn Farm is highly recommended if you can get in.

If I wanted a CL near Retford I open google maps and search for a CL near Retford. I can see which is the nearest if that is important. I don't use many  CLs but I find that quick and easy. On a PC I often take easy route of typing a place name or postcode in a google search. A link will come up for google maps and I click that and then type the search 'CL near ........'

I think from the above method 20 miles is the default and can not be changed.

Cannot remember if you could change distance on the app as it was soon discarded as hopeless.

If I use the CAMC website, UK Holidays, Certificated Locations then click the green 'search & book a CL' button, then put Nottinghamshire in the county field, then Retford in the town field, both from the drop down lists, it gives 6 CLs.

If I use the app on my phone and put in within 25 miles, the default, it gives 5 CLs.

On the website I understand the list of 6 is nearest at the top, furthest at the bottom. If I open the bottom it will give snapshots of the next nearest to that one which may be outwith 25 miles.

I use google maps as my first call when using a laptop as you don't need to sign in. Put in a town, then use the 'nearby' button and type 'Certificated Locations' which often brings up a larger range.

Since the dreaded update to website a few years ago, searching for a CL doesn’t seem quite as easy in some ways as it used to be. However, a bit of practice and playing around comes up with various methods. Here is a link to all the towns listed under Nottinghamshire, including Retford. From this you can search town by town. If you click onto a given CL, then scroll down to the bottom, it will also show you further CLs a stated distance away, and these may link into another county. So it is possible to hop out certain distances from a given destination! (I hope this makes sense!)

https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/certificated-locations/england/nottinghamshire/

In effect you are searching by County. However, not every CL is listed entirely accurate, and you might get an oddity in a neighbouring county!

Phew!🤔😁

Thanks everyone. It would appear that on the website the default as suggested is 20 miles but on the app you can vary the distance. Just interested to know how as I am not actually looking for one at present.

It must be me, but I have no problem on my computer looking for a CL in a particular area using the Search by Map facility. I tick CLs & select the nearest town I'm interested in. Then I click on one of those that comes up and right click and then select "open link in new tab". The CL appears in the new tab & I then view it. As tda says there are then 4 choices at the foot of that page of other CLs close by, or I return to the map and repeat process on another CL shown, until I find one that suits. Simples 

ET, I tried to do that but couldn't get any CLs to appear on the Google Map of the town I chose. In the search box do you just type in CLs near "town", or what?

I just type 'Cl near chester' but although that is the method that I use I notice that it misses many as, if I am not mistaken there is one near Mickle   Trafford. Is it PearTree Farm?