Sites near towns

Also in Scotland there is Silverbank a 5 minute walk away from Banchory

Scottish sites, Stonehaven, Grantown on Spey, Braemar, Forfar, Crail, Pitlochry.

Where is our site in Pitlochry?

Wish there was!!

...no club site but there are a couple of commercial sites there, also a site at Blair Atholl and a site in Perth.

Low season price of £26 for the likes of us with a dog and it's 7 miles from Pitlochry too, a fair bit of a walk to the town!!.....no thanks.

Three more in Yorkshire

..Hawes..Hebdon Bridge..Knaresborough....

 I also have quite an extensive list of UK campsites which are near towns or near transport links here just look for the green motorhome symbol next to the site report.

David

Thank you David, very good information....

this thread is very helpful in getting to know where you can find a bus,or walk into a town or village. i will be looking into some of the sites given on here .thank you people will keep a look out for some more help.

Burrs Country Park at Bury. Lovely park at the gates of the site to walk the dogs and 20 minute walk into Bury or the bus not far from the site and links into Mancheter, lovely site if you can get a booking :-)

and apparently the station to/from the East Lancs Railway will eventually be opened next Thursday. It's only been 20+ yrs in the making 

 I can't get your link to work and I know it's a good link!!!

can you possibly link to it again?

 

:)

I know this is an old thread, but I have a facebook group where members post reviews of sites where you can leave your motorhome(or caravan) on site and walk, bus or cycle to somewhere. The group is called pitch and park. I would love to put your reviews on there, would that be OK David?

In 2012 I started a thread for 'UK sites where no car was needed'. It was a sticky for a long time & I used to periodically update it with a full list of all sites mentioned. Then it was removed from a sticky & placed on another thread where helpful information was stored. Then the new software put an end to me finding it. Perhaps you can have more luck and find it? This is a big problem I feel with this Club & the forum as a whole, such valuable information should be easily accessible to all and provided by the Club. Even when you read the Club magazines touring articles there is rarely, if ever, any information for people who do not have their own vehicle transport other than a car. Regards, Roy

Just remembered my own personal list I used to update the thread from and found this from an update in January 2014, hope it helps. I couldn't find the actual thread at all

Regards, Roy

England

Berwick Seaview, Northumberland

Old Hartley, Newcastle upon Tyne

Teesdale Barnard Castle, Co Durham

Coniston Park Coppice, Cumbria

Thirsk Racecourse, North Yorkshire

Hawes, North Yorkshire

Knaresbrough, North Yorkshire

Wharfedale, Grassington,  North Yorkshire

West Ayton, Scarborough, North Yorkshire

Rowntree Park, York

Beechwood Grange, York

Bridlington, East Yorkshire

Burrs Country Park, Bury, Lancashire

Southport, Merseyside

Fairoaks, Chester

Burrs Country Park, Bury

Chatsworth, Peak District

Castleton, Peak District

Blackshaw Moor, Peak District

Houghton Mill, East Anglia

Seacroft, Cromer East Anglia

Sutton on Sea, Lincolnshire

Skegness Sands, AS Lincolnshire

Milestone Park, Newark

Fakenham Racecourse, Norfolk

Ferry Meadows, Peterborough

Cambridge Cherry Hinton, Cambridge

Kidlington, Oxford (CL)

Moreton-on-Marsh, Cotswolds

Bladon Chains, Cotswolds

Henley, Cotswolds

Cirencester, Cotswolds

Bromyard Downs, Cotswolds

Broadway, Cotswolds

Tewkesbury Abbey, Cotswolds

Uttoxeter Racecourse, Cotswolds

Warwick Racecourse, Cotswolds

Exmoor House, Dulverton, Somerset

Cheddar, Bristol, Somerset

Baltic Wharf, Bristol

Black Knowl, Brokenhurst, New Forest

Hillhead, Brixham Devon

Steamer Quay, Totnes Devon

Commons Wood, Welwyn Garden City

Abbey Wood, London

Crystal Palace, London

Brighton, West Sussex

Littlehampton, West Sussex

Wales

Riverside Touring Park, Betws-y-Coed North Wales. AS

Lady Margaret’s Park, Chirk North Wales

Pembrey Country Park, Llanelli South Wales, off road cycle routes

Tredegar House Country Park, Newport South Wales

St David’s Lleithyr Meadow, South Wales

Brecon Beacons, South Wales

Hiilcroft Cl, Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire

Scotland

Braemar, Scotland

Craigie Gardens, Ayr Scotland

Errol, Perthshire, Scotland CL

Edinburgh, Scotland

Forfar, Scotland

Huntly Caravan Park, Aberdeenshire AS

Kingdom of Fife, Scotland

Maragowan, Killin, Scotland

Melrose, Gibson Park, Scotland

New England Bay, Scotland

Strathclyde Park, Scotland

Silverbank, Scotland

Stonehaven, Scotland

North Ledaig, Oban, Scotland

Low Glengyre Farm CL, Stranraer, Scotland, no transport but good walks

 

 

Non Club Sites

Bratihwaite C&CC, Cumbria

Ravenglass C&CC, Cumbria

Ambleside Aire, Cumbria, town centre, no electric or sanitation

Keswick, C&CC

Beadnall Bay, Northumberland C&CC

Bakewell C&CC

St Neots, C&CC

Hay Brow, Scalby, Scarborough, C&CC

Moffatt, Scotland C&CC

Barnard Castle, Co Durham, C&CC

Oxford C&CC

Gulivers World C&CC site in Central Milton Keynes, Bucks.

Country Park Lincoln, commercial

Broadholme Nursery commercial, ideal for Derby, Buxton, Matlock

Hendre Mynach, Barmouth commercial

The Cardiff Caravan Park, commercial

Greenacres, Wellington, Somerset commercial  adjacent to the M5, good stop over site

Little Cotton, commercial, Dartmouth, Devon

Polruan Holidays, Cornwall, commercial

Riverside touring park, commercial, Stratford upon Avon

Sandfield House Farm, commercial, Whitby

York YCP, commercial, Stockton Lane, York

 

 

Update

 

Extra info

Gibson Park at Melrose in the Scottish Borders (only a couple of miles off the A68) is one of my personal favourites and is another good stopover for a few nights on the way North. The site is in the centre of Melrose and there are good public transport links all around the area as well as easy walking around the immediate area. If you like Italian food, don't miss the authentic Italian restaurant "Monte Casino", which is located in what used to be Melrose railway station on the disused Waverley Line between Edinburgh and Carlisle, but there are also several other excellent hotels and restaurants in and around Melrose.

 

I would suggest Exmoor House CC site in Dulverton. It is right on the edge of the town so you can walk to the small supermarket, deli, excellent butcher, greengrocer, you name it. Great pub at the end of the approach road to the site which serves good grub and beer, also a hotel in the town which serves bar food etc. to non-residents, dogs welcome in both. Several good walks direct from the site, also Land Rover "safari" type trips from the town take you into the wilds of Exmoor, and there is a bus service but I don't know any details.

A good commercial site on the South coast of Cornwall is Polruan Holidays http://www.polruanholidays.co.uk/ Walk to the village (a steep hill down and feels much steeper coming back) for newspaper, basic food requirements, two good pubs serving food, passenger ferry to Fowey, trips around the river, or to Mevagissey. Footpaths from the site go along the coast to Looe and Polperro, and there is also a bus service so you can walk one way and get the bus back. Fabulous owners, nothing too much trouble, they work really hard keeping the place just so.