One word review? "Average". Two words "Old Fashioned".
The site itself is in a rare setting for the mostly flat East Anglia. It’s on a hill. It’s also shaped around a well used golf course, so walking from the far side of the site to the entrance is quite a trek, and involves a long curving walk.
The site itself is in a rare setting for the mostly flat East Anglia. It’s on a hill. It’s also shaped around a well used golf course, so walking from the far side of the site to the entrance is quite a trek, and involves a long curving walk. There are also large signs at intervals around the course, warning that the land is private and any incursion onto the hallowed turf would be trespass. Beware!
The Incleboro layout is decidedly “old fashioned’ and all but the service pitches are merely marked by the usual simple peg. Some pitches are tiny and some are huge. It’s all a bit random.
The grass pitches themselves are mainly contained within small cul-de-sacs. All very nice and cosy except.... don’t be tempted to investigate whether there are any spaces available by driving in. You may find them full. Turning around and exiting would be a challenge for any large outfit.
Walking around the site to find a suitable pitch is the other option, especially if you enjoy a good hike. Remember that the site is far from level and you will get a good work out
The map provided isn’t much use either. In common with many of the new maps that have been published for C&MC sites, the map defies the usual cartographic convention by not putting north at the top. The Incleboro Fields map has north positioned somewhere down in the right hand corner. What does make the chart almost useless is that none of the numbered pitches are actually marked on it. This may well have been “the way it’s always been done,” but we are now in the 21st century and a simple chart with pitch markings shouldn’t be too hard.
Why is this important? The wardens cannot direct to you which pitches are vacant because they are not marked. The best that can be achieved is that “there may be a pitch” in a certain cul-de-sac. This isn’t particularly helpful.
One final observation. The wardens here seem to be inspired by the green keepers next door and spend a lot of time cutting any visible grass to within a millimetre of its roots. Leave your pitch and they’ll be strait on it with a mower. All this is unnecessary, and environmentally unfriendly both in fuel and in terms of the wild insect life.
It’s against the C&MCs policy which requires all grass to be left to grow to a standard length of 2.5 inches (about 63mm). So why do wardens persist in manicuring grass?
And that’s the problem. Incleboro appears to have been run in the same old fashioned manner for many years. Reliance on “thats way we’ve always done it” is short sighted and inevitably, unsustainable.
To sum up, if I had to pick one word to describe the Incleboro Fields site it would be....... Average. If I were allowed two, they would be “Old Fashioned”..
