Non-EHU Sites List

Thanks Wye

Thank you for this.  From around March to October we prefer off grid so this will save us a lot of time searching.  I hope it is not too time consuming to keep up to date as it is a fantastic resource.  We looked at visiting your site as a small 'thank you' but it is too far away for us for even a long weekend from up in Durham :( 

Hi 1Tracey1 glad to here the list will be of use to you. Maybe see you in the future if heading to the south coast could do a stop over with us!

Just updated the Non-EHU Sites list and map as below. Seems we have lost a total of 22 CLs this month (7 off which are Non-EHU sites) with only 4 new EHU ones opening!

NON-EHU CLOSURES IN CAMC JUNE MAGAZINE
Trelay Farm, Marhamchurch, Bude, Cornwall, Englan,EX23 0HP
Knowle House,Trusham, Newton Abbot, Devon, England, Q13 0NU
Lake View, Ellicombe Farm, Morchard Road, Crediton, Devon, EX17 5LS
Locklands Lake, Lincoln Road, Torksey Lock, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England LN1 2EL
Crossways Farm, Woodhill, Stoke St Gregory, Taunton, Somerset, England, TA3 6ES
Whitehouse Farm, Tysoe Road, Radway, Warwick, Warwickshire, England, CV35 0UE
Manoravon, Dudleston Heath, Ellesmere, Shropshire, England, SY12 9LJ 
CHANGE OF NAME: John Paul Jones Cottage (was Arbigland Estate), Kirkbean, Dumfries, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, DG2 8BQ

Again Johnny, thanks! The continuing loss of non EHU sites is quite worrying isn’t it.? I suppose the reasons are many and varied but one must be the pressure on land and extracting the best use and profit from it. However, I applaud your earlier comment regarding not making a profit but breaking even. This surely is the spirit of the non EHU CL. A quiet, and peaceful site which is offered for others to enjoy without trying to earn a holiday in the Seychelles from it!! Very often we forget that these sites are there because someone has very kindly offered their land to be enjoyed and at a very reasonable price. I thank you and all CL owners, yes, EHU sites included, for your continued & unstinting  help to ‘house’us lot!! Let’s hope that the new technologies start to change the CL owners minds about closing them- we should all make an effort to keep these sites open by taking a few days to visit or even a long w/e which any decent battery should be able to cope with. 

Many thanks Nicky - let’s hioe you can get through to them that this is the elephant in the room!! I meet so many caravanners who haven’t got a clue that one can survive offgrid for weeks at a time in a very comfortable way. Perhaps these people don’t bother with reading anything about improvements in technology or perhaps they are just not interested which I find amazing but everyone to their own . Having said that though, If the article is never written, then I feel that the club is short changing its members. All I ask is to set the facts before the great unwashed, and let them decide- I wouldn’t imagine that the doors at Roadpro and similar would be taken off their hinges by people wanting new techs fitted so I really don’t think that the CMHC has much to worry about. The EHU will still rule!! 

Hi Merve thanks for your input on this discussion. I agree the continuing loss on non–EHU sites at this rate is worrying espiecially with no new ones opening! If this decline were to continue each month in 5 years no non EHU CLs! Maybe it’s what the Club wants as it seams never to promote them as an alternative.
As an example can not search for them on the Club website, in this month magazine they featured stone circles we are 15 minutes/ 8.6 miles away from the Rollright Stones ancient site- stone ring not a mention, seem only to mention one club site and one CL! In the Events Diary page Bloxham Steam Rally 2.5 miles away only mention is the temporary site (not everyone wants to stop at the event!) no club sites or CLs listed. Sorry rant over.  Have learnt you have not to rely on the Club get yourself a website etc etc ……

Thanks for your support & all the others who use Off Grid Cls
Not booked my Seychelles break yet though would save up for maybe a moon trip!

Excellent work! here's to off grid sites.

and pitches.

peedee

" I agree the continuing loss on non–EHU sites at this rate is worrying especially with no new ones opening!"

Not the case Johnny, there was 1 last month, Rosedale at Skegness, and 1 the month before, Bridge Fm, Wickenby, Lincoln. 

Can't be bothered to go back further but you get my gist, I guess.