We really love the Black Knowl site and have stayed here on a number of occasions. The location of the site is amazing, right in the middle of the forest so you get complete peace and quiet. We love the fact that you can step out the gate of the site and walk off in a number of different directions through the forest. Cycling in the area is also great with many waymarked cycle paths through the forest. The wardens on the site are really friendly and helpful and although the site was busy when we were there the wardens coped admirably and everyone was checked in quickly and easily despite a large number of people arriving at the same time. We were on a serviced pitch which was brilliant. Nice and big, flat and with a water tap and waste drain on the pitch. Each pitch also has a reasonably sized grassy area beside the pitch where you can sit out if the weather is nice. The quality of the facilities are second to none. The toilet block is only a couple of years old and has excellent showers and toilets and washbasins in cubicles which are all kept spotlessly clean. There is also an excellent laundry room on the site which was handy as we were away for 10 days and ran out of clean jeans! I only have one gripe about the site and this might be something that the wardens could consider for the future. Each morning the ladies toilet block closes for cleaning at 10:15am which in my mind is far far far too early. The men’s block doesn’t close until 11am. I know I’m generalising here but in my experience ladies take quite a bit longer than men in the shower and it might be an idea to swap the cleaning times over so that the men’s closes earlier and the ladies later. On several of the mornings that we were there there was a large queue of ladies waiting to use the shower around 9:30am. On a couple of occasions I didn’t get into the shower because of the queue until 10am which meant that my shower was very rushed and on one occasion I still hadn’t got into the shower by 10:05am and I knew I would never make it before closing time so I ended up having to shower in the caravan. My husband said that there were never any queues in the gents showers as men seem to be in and out a lot quicker than ladies. Perhaps a trial of closing the showers the other way round would be worth trying. Apart from that we think this is our favourite site on the network.