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Good for families

Excellent Location & superb dog walk, the rest is not so good.

Brilliant location - Hawes is only a couple of minutes away on foot, so excellent if you are in a Camper Van & just want to leave it parked up. The dog walk is the best we have seen on a C&MH club site, plenty of room for the dogs to run off the lead & securely fenced. After that it goes down hill a bit - Toilets are shut at 9.45, there is no alternative provision at all. I don't understand why not every other site manages to keep the disabled toilet open. The neighbours dogs, if you are parked to the right of the entrance road you are right next to the farm, the farm dogs bark every time some one makes noise. They barked almost continuously from our arrival at 3.30pm through till 9.30pm The cows, you are right next to the cow shed, I didn't realise cows could make so much noise, they start at 5am so don't expect a lay in. The dogs, the cows woke the dogs up..... The smell, being right next to the cow shed brings a certain aroma. The trees, I reckon its going to take longer to remove the sap that dripped from the trees along with the pigeon guano ( guess what's nesting in the trees) than we actually spent on site. The proper hard hardstandings. Ive actually managed to bend more rock pegs on this one stay than in my previous 12 years of camping put together. They take a lot of banging in - see previous note about noise making the dogs bark.... The tight pitches - I see many have been downgraded to no awning - they pack them in tight here & it feels like a carpark.

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mickysf replied on 07/06/2021 21:55

Posted on 07/06/2021 21:55

I don't understand, both countryside and nature we have to live along side don't we. After all isn't that why many of us caravan. Farms are also part of that patchwork. Also, the very seasonal nature of trees is that sap rises in the spring and as leaves open they drip. What on 'earth' do some folk expect? This dripping only lasts for a week or two. If one does not like it them time ones visits to sites with beautiful trees until this phenomena has passed. 

Andy in Luton replied on 14/06/2021 16:11

Posted on 07/06/2021 14:58 by JVB66

Oh dear cool you are a townie thensurprised

Posted on 14/06/2021 16:11

No I am not,

There is a huge difference between between listening to cows mooing whilst they are free to roam out in a field compared to camping just the other side of a cowshed wall with loads of them making a noise at the same time.   Lack of available pitches dictated where on site we had to park, so no avoiding it.

If I wanted to listen to that I would have visited the local cattle market.

Had I been pitched up near the wardens, or the other side of the entrance road the review would have been different.

 

Andy in Luton replied on 14/06/2021 16:13

Posted on 07/06/2021 21:55 by mickysf

I don't understand, both countryside and nature we have to live along side don't we. After all isn't that why many of us caravan. Farms are also part of that patchwork. Also, the very seasonal nature of trees is that sap rises in the spring and as leaves open they drip. What on 'earth' do some folk expect? This dripping only lasts for a week or two. If one does not like it them time ones visits to sites with beautiful trees until this phenomena has passed. 

Posted on 14/06/2021 16:13

When you are given a choice of two pitches, both with trees overhanging the whole area what are you supposed to do?

 

I'll check with the daughters school next week & ask them to move half term so that it does not coincide with the sap rising next year.