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Good for families

Excellent for London if you don't mind trees

I didn’t get off to a very good start here, but I grew to like the place. I am not a tree worshipper. They tend to make a place gloomy and much worse for me is having to pitch beneath them. The majority of pitches here are overhung by trees. I know the clue is in the name but not all places with “Wood” at the end remain wooded today; and besides I would not let this stop me trying a site for the first time – other positives can and often do compensate! As it happens, there are a number of pitches not overhung by trees and with a more open aspect; but then your difficulty is finding a level one. I tried a couple before I settled on a good open and bigger than average pitch, though still with a slight slope left to right necessitating the levellers - essential here for motorhomes. Eventually the attractions of the site overcame these initial downsides. I would come here again. The site is large, pretty, on various levels and very well laid out. Everyone has mentioned the convenience of the close by Abbey Wood station with regular trains into Charing X or Canon Street. You can go to Rochester or Chatham and other places as well. I was not here long enough to get to nearby Greenwich but I managed two trips into London for the National Gallery and St Paul’s (horribly expensive I thought) combined with some shopping in Oxford Street, a day in Rochester and a day part relaxing and part exploring Woolwich and the riverside. This is not really a place for those who just wish to chill. A good Sainsbury is close to the site (you have to go beyond the station as it is not next door as the map given to me suggested). There are one or two fast food outlets near the station, but I would not recommend the Chinese cum chippy which was not very nice and had very miserable staff. The loo blocks are excellent, TV good, 4G excellent, as you would expect here, and so I don’t use club Wi-Fi. In autumn, under trees, leaves are a bit of a bother but the very noisy leaf blowers were a bigger nuisance being an almost constant presence when I was on site until darkness fell - except on Sunday, a welcome day of rest evidently. I know this has to be done, but one hankers for the days when big rakes were the implement of choice. The London City airport means some aircraft noise, but this is a very minor issue I found. Most often on a westerly track, departing aircraft – the noisiest - are going away from the site and landing aircraft are on a path almost 1.5 miles north. I often saw bigger aircraft in holding patterns for Heathrow but the noise from them was barely noticeable. I found it easy to follow the directions to the site, but on my departure I took the more direct route along the A206 all the way to the M25. For motorhomes, I think this is fine but all the road signs towards the site are along the route recommended in the club book. Motorhomes were in the majority at Abbey Wood. On the whole this is a good place to be.

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