This is a lovely site nestled on the edge of the Yorkshire dales and one of the prettiest CC sites I can recall visiting. It is made especially attractive by little touches here and there added by the wardens: a little cluster of lights, ornaments and plants carefully constructed near a service point, a bird feeding station near reception, pretty butterflies, well-kept grass, good hard standings and more. What I loved was the glorious open aspect so very rare on club sites. There are a few well positioned trees but for the most part the southerly aspect, towards which the site gently slopes, is open and affords lovely views towards Richmond just four miles away. How refreshing this is. Would that one could say this about more sites. The wardens were among the most affable, helpful, co-operative and approachable I have known and they clearly take pride in their site and with good reason. This is a Yorkshire gem. The A66, the busy trans-Pennine trunk road, is adjacent to the northern edge of the site. This much is obvious from these pages so why people go there and then make a song and dance about the noise I cannot fathom. For myself, these things do not trouble me at all. A barking dog is way more disturbing in my view. But we’re all different so if you would hate this type of noise do not come here. Actually, I was about half way down the site from the road and the noise was not exceptionally noticeable especially at night. I imagine that if you went to the bottom of the site you would hear very little. There is a bus outside the gate to Richmond or Darlington; it’s not very frequent but is excellent for a two or four hour visit to either town if you are a motorhomer without a car. Other than that, it’s not really a great site for those in a motorhome for a long stay. There are no obvious walks; you can’t walk the local roads safely and the bus is limiting if you want to go further than the aforementioned towns. There are opportunities for cyclists, but the hills are challenging. I cycled to Richmond but ideally it requires greater fitness than I possess. Motorhomers will need levelling blocks as, the site being on a constant slope, many pitches suffer from a tendency to waver from the horizontal; but that’s why we have blocks. TV reception was adequate when I expected it to be bad and the wifi was good; I could log onto my office machine for an hour’s essential work – something one is rarely able to do effectively from CC wifi enabled sites. Nothing is perfect and my criticisms are that there are insufficient service points and the toilet block is not ideally situated. It’s a lengthy uphill walk to both if you are at the bottom of the site. There are four nose to tail pitches on tarmac. I wouldn’t want to find myself on one of them. I note that there is some structural work going on over the winter. Perhaps that will negate some of these criticisms. On the whole a lovely, very well kept and very friendly and welcoming site.