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I need a site that is within an hour or so from Birmingham as I have to attend a work event for a couple of hours one evening over the BH weekend. We are coming from sheffield. I have spent hours on the map search, looking at reviews & now exhausted. A lot of places are of course already booked, but not all. We have a place at Wolvey if we want it. The thing is I am booking for us and some friends who are coming with us & we are only camping in that area to suit me, so I feel a bit responsible! Would welcome any recommendations or ideas as to good areas to go for. We are 2 familes including toddlers, baby & pregnant lady, looking for tent pitches + EHU. Clean facilities are important for the little ones as is easy access to the toilets 

Thanks :-)

Hi, from here  you can pinpoint an area on the map, e.g Birmingham, and search for sites within either 5, 10, 20 or 30 miles.

Then when you have found the sites in the area, you will be able to read the visitor reviews for recommendations.

Here is the direct link to all sites within 5 miles: http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/calcdist.asp?bar=&shop=&restaurant=&md=5&l=52.472743&lg=-1.897888

Cheers  Ratty

Thanks Ratty- have been doing the pinpoint search & reading reviews for about 3 weeks now and just worn out with it!

Kingsbury we were originally going to but it is going to be £37 per night for our friends (non members) £30 for us with not EHU, I think because they have jumbo pitches left.

Have been looking at Clent (was put off by someone's review but the rest look good so will ring them in the morning) & we absolutely lovely the look of the Much Wenlock site but they are full. DIdnt find Pillaton Hall Farm so will look at that now :-) 

Pillaton Hall looks good. It is the first review section I have seen with a reply from the site to a bad review- shows they are on the ball and take it seriously.

Does anyone know how far the lakes are from the camping area. Toddlers and water make me very nervous, but we have stayed at a few sites with lakes and it has not been a problem as long as we have been able to camp away from them

Second for Lickhill Manor, but the EHU pitches get booked up. If you can go without EHU's they have a HUGE rally field.

Quote: Originally posted by snugglebabe on 18/4/2010

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Pillaton Hall looks good. It is the first review section I have seen with a reply from the site to a bad review- shows they are on the ball and take it seriously.

Does anyone know how far the lakes are from the camping area. Toddlers and water make me very nervous, but we have stayed at a few sites with lakes and it has not been a problem as long as we have been able to camp away from them

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Hi,

The pools are amongst the pitches, we go regularly and have never heard of anyone falling in, they are fished from dawn til dusk so it's highly unlikely a child could fall in and not be seen.

It was originally built as a fishery and the camp site has gradually evolved around it.

We don't use their facilities as we use the ones in the 'van but I know they have had comments about them not being very clean sometimes, I know for definite they are cleaned daily and I also know the owners do read comments on this site and are on a learning curve regarding running a successful site.

 

It sounds a long way, but what about Conkers C&CC site, Moira.  It's fairly close to the M42 and I reckon you could do it in less than an hour.  It depends where you want to get ot in B'ham really.

There's also Chapel Lane CC site.

If you considered Kingsbury - then there's Lea Marston which is just down the road.

Not been there myself as its too near to home - but does look nice, and I think the reviews are good too if I remember?

Thanks so much for the suggestions everyone! Just emailed Pillaton (they are closed now). Conkers & Lickhill & Chapel Lane we had tried but already full. Bosworth we were really put off by recent reviews-eek! Going to look into Lea Marston tomorrow but when we spoke to C&CC they said all their sites were full in that area.

Thanks again everyone :-)