First time staying on this site, wife, me and two dogs. Arrived to be informed to drive around the site and pick a pitch, then return once set up to inform wardens where we were. Decided on pitch number 175, in a cluster covered by trees. The good thing was that there was only us there, the bad was when it rained, it was amplified by the trees but it didn't really bother us. The site is a large site with small areas of pitched grouped together, which, as others have said, make the site seem smaller and more intimate. The facilities are very well managed and the wardens very helpful. The walk into Coniston is about 1.5 miles along a flat path, through the national trust land which is a camping area. The fields have free roaming sheep in them so you need to keep dogs on a lead at all times when in this area. Coniston is a small village with 5 pubs, a couple of shops, a garage, public WC's and a tourist information centre, blink and you will miss it but it is a lovely little place. We stayed Wednesday to Sunday and having walked into Coniston on the Saturday morning, found that on our return, the camping fields and site were very busy, (1st day of school holidays) and two caravans had pitched up in the same cluster of pitches a us. Problem was that on Sunday, I could not get the van off the pitch between the two vans by using the car, thankfully I have a mover fitted so managed to get it off with that, would have struggled otherwise due to the proximity of the vans to the road and a van directly opposite. All in all a lovely site, in a good location virtually next to Coniston lake which we would recommend, perhaps not in the school holidays as we prefer a bit of us time now our 4 children no longer come with us and we have been there and done all that.