Wonderful woodpeckers!
We stayed at Ashby Lane Farm for 3 weeks. The field is very large, and Gary keeps it very well mowed with all cuttings removed. It’s nice that the other part of the field has been left as a wildflower meadow. The site itself is very quiet, although there is the background hum of traffic from the main road, although this is distant and wasn’t a problem. The site is immaculate, each pitch has its own EHU and whilst there is only one tap between two pitches, when we did have neighbours, we used a splitter so that we could both have serviced pitches. Electricity cost approximately £2.15 extra per night, for just lights, TV and appliances, we didn’t have the heating on.
It would be good to have a long hosepipe that reached from the water tap to the black waste disposal point. Without a hosepipe you have to go backwards and forwards to rinse and empty the cartridge and it would help to keep the disposal point clean and hygienic. Also, just a laminated sheet of local information would be useful.
Our fridge control panel had broken before we left, and Gary kindly agreed that we could have the replacement part from Germany delivered to the site. All would have been well if UPS had managed to deliver to the correct farm, not the one a mile up the road! Anne was very kind and helpful in trying to track it down for us.
The highlight of the site for us was putting up our birdfeeders and watching the parent woodpecker feeding the chick each morning.
The best places we visited were the Midland Motor Museum in Coventry, NT Stoneywell, Coventry Cathedral , Tropical Birdland and Stoneleigh Abbey. Due to the weather, we didn’t get out walking as much as we’d have liked, but we still had a good time.
Best pub with amazing food is the Swan Inn at Ullesthorpe!
