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The Orchard Camp Site
Spring Lane
Wickham Market
Suffolk (Browse area)
IP13 0SJ
Tel: 07818 034729
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Pitches: 11 acres plus 20 electric pitches
Open: 03/04/2026 to 01/10/2026
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 Glamping Units |
 No Statics for Hire |
 No Statics for Sale |
 No Seasonal Pitches |
 Electric Hookups |
 No Hardstandings |
 No Fully Serviced Pitches |
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| Who's it for |
 Families Welcome |
 Not Members Only |
 Rallies Welcome |
 Not Naturist Site |
 Dogs Welcome |
 No Dogs Allowed |
 Groups Welcome |
 Motorbikers Welcome |
| Facilities |
 Toilet Facilities |
 Hot Showers |
 Washing Up |
 No Bathroom |
 No Baby Changing |
 Laundry On Site |
 Drinking Water |
 Disabled Friendly |
 Chemical Disposal |
 Battery Charging |
 No Gas Exchange |
 No Recycling Facilities |
 Kitchen Facilities |
 Freezer / Fridge |
 No Motorhome Point |
 No Wifi Access |
 Shop On Site |
 Bar On Site |
 Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway <1 mile |
| Activities |
 Kids Playground |
 No TV Room |
 No Games Room |
 No Evening Ents |
 Fishing On Site |
 No Wild Swimming |
 No Indoor Pool |
 No Outdoor Pool |
 Horse Riding <1 mile |
 Cycle Hire <5 miles |
 Golf <1 mile |
 Tennis <1 mile |
 Beach <10 miles |
 Watersports On Site |
 No Boat Launch |
| Other Features |
 No Sea Views |
 Not Working Farm |
 Campfires Allowed |
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 No Waterside Pitches |
 Public Transport <1 mile |
 Offroad Dog Walk On Site or Direct Access |
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Date of Visit: September 2019  |
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| Nights stayed: 1 |
Travelling as: Family with young children |
| Reviewer: Laura3 |
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 So lovely and relaxed. Beautiful site. Such lovely owner. Good facilities and great setting. Thank you Alan!
The site could do with more than two swings for the kids but this is not a criticism at all. The kids loved it! 
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| Date of Visit: September 2019 |
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| Nights stayed: 1 |
Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: Tapwat |
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Loved the campsite. It was so relaxed. Staff were very friendly.
Loved that you could have campfires. It has a well stocked shop on site.
Choose you own pitch too.
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| Date of Visit: August 2019 |
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| Nights stayed: 3 |
Travelling as: Family with young children |
| Reviewer: Dawnjo |
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Very good site not too large so the children can roam safely.
Enjoyed pond dipping in the river and the relaxed atmosphere.
Definitely going again and would recommend.
Had a great time.
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| Date of Visit: August 2019 |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
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| Reviewer: Klmayh |
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A brilliant site; there’s not many sites that you can visit where there is such a relaxed atmosphere!
Proper camp fires allowed, pitch where you want with no size restrictions, decent shower bloke (got a bit grubby at the end of the day but that’s to be expected with peak season I guess), friendly staff who really engage with the kids.
They even get the kids involved with a glow stick grab on a Wednesday and Saturday night, something so simple but hearing the kids getting excited about how many glow sticks they picked up was brilliant.
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| Date of Visit: August 2019 |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
Travelling as: Family with older children |
| Reviewer: Katolo |
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Lovely friendly campsite. Enjoyed a campfire under the stars, & trees offering some shade I when needed.
Only thing I’d like to see improve was the cleanliness of the toilets.
At busy times think they need a bit more attention. Otherwise wonderful experience & would recommend.
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| Date of Visit: August 2019 |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: Msimmons |
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Nice site, lively with families, teens and people wide awake until early hours. Although it’s a relaxed site, there are little boundaries.
Children playing in swings until midnight, teens around the site and wondering around your pitch causing some unsocial me behaviours. It could do with someone reminding campers of camp etiquette, or closing play areas after 10pm for the children whos parents leave their kids to fend for themselves to all hours
Litter around the place so it could do with having more bins!
Toilet and shower floors pretty dirty. I imagine it’s hard to keep up the cleanliness of the small amount of showers and toilets they have during the busy seasons as traffic flow was constant and a fair bit of waiting to use them. There is not enough of them sadly, Could do with more showers and toilets.
Only found one drinking water tap, so could do with another.
Bin area was pretty grubby and a eyesore. This could do with being fenced away.
Friendly manager.
Easy to book in.
Nice shop and seating area around the shop outside.
Nice location easy to find
Nice leafy shaded areas
Good access for our campervan
The children on the site liked the free glow sticks and had fun running around with them.
We would go back, maybe not in school holidays though!
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| Date of Visit: August 2019 |
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| Nights stayed: 5 |
Travelling as: Family with young children |
| Reviewer: Kajclk |
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We stayed with a group, really enjoyed ourselves, would give a 5*, however, the cleanliness of the shower, toilet blocks and washing up facilities could do with regular upkeep.
With such a busy campsite this needs to be cleaned every hour as the build up gets too much. The floors were always wet and dirty and the cubicles were covered in spider webs and spiders.
The shop is nicely stocked, although this could also do with a clean from webs etc.
As previously stated we would have rated 5* as everything else was lovely.
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| Date of Visit: August 2019 |
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| Nights stayed: 4 |
Travelling as: Family with young children |
| Reviewer: Rodney |
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Lovely site with lots of trees and stream.
Very informal camping with fires made directly on the grass.
Toilets and showers are ok, freezer and fridge for ice blocks.
Microwave toaster kettle on site and shop has good variety of drinks (especially for adults ) and limited fresh meats for BBQ.
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| Date of Visit: July 2019 |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
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| Reviewer: Knibbo100 |
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For my first time camping this has to be the best place to stay. Great location, with friendly members off staff.
We went here on an end of season football gathering and there’s lots of space for big groups to enjoy the surroundings.
We had a stroll around the picturesque town of Wickam Market and enjoyed some fish and chips.
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| Date of Visit: August 2019 |
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| Reviewer: Pollyj |
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The facilities are nice, and location is good. Reception is friendly and efficient. Views across the river Deben are lovely.
Biggest downside though is noise. It is near the A12 and traffic noise is noticeable. This is not the biggest problem though.
The music noise from other campers until quite late is a bit offputting, two duelling sound systems late at night does not make for a relaxing stay in a family campsite.
Children shrieking at 7 AM is not nice either. Shame, otherwise a nice place to stay.
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| Date of Visit: July 2018 |
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| Reviewer: Terrycurtis |
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A fantastic welcome from Alan and his team.
All the facilities you really need plus a fabulously well stocked fridge.
It's great that you can set fires on the ground for your own marshmallows or sausages too.
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| Date of Visit: May 2018 |
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| Reviewer: Rich March |
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Stayed on site for one week.
Essentially. A site which is happy to take the customers money but is not prepared to invest it in the site for the customers.
It is not easy to access from the road and I would suggest very problematic with a large caravan unit. Be advised.
Large site with no real boundaries for pitches etc. Some with EHU and a large bottom field for non EHU. A nice looking site, with a river across the bottom of the lower field.
A very relaxed place, too relaxed in my opinion. People pretty much pitch where they like. We had booked a pitch with EHU which had not been taken into account. Luckily for us a pitch was found. No quiet period, having to get up at 2am to tell the group next door to be quiet was a first in many years of camping but sadly was an indication of some of the clients in residence and the lack of rules/common courtesy from others.
There is a shop on site which caters well for some purchases. It is open until 11pm so why someone couldn't go around the site after closing and just ask others to be quiet I don't know. Kids in the play area at 11. 30pm etc was not uncommon along with groups of marauding teenagers just milling around.
Facilities. Awful.
Rarely cleaned. Kids allowed to run from the river, covered in weed and mud to go straight to the showers to wash off and just leave it all lying around. Loo paper all over the floors of the toilets, poor quality showers, and not enough by any stretch for the size of the park. Not even a bucket and mop in place for considerate campers to clean up themselves.
ONE water point. For a site this size that is ridiculous.
Campfires, on the ground. In principle a lovely idea however in reality there a piles of ash all over the place which kids and adults alike walk through and into the already unclean facilities.
I could continue but I think this says enough. We will not be returning as there are many sites within striking distance of this one that are far better.
If you are a loud, rowdy group then this is the site for you. If you are a family then I would look elsewhere.
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| Date of Visit: August 2017 |
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| Reviewer: Kingnezzer |
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Just got back from a long weekend stay at this campsite. I'll start off with the positives very large site with the option to pitch in any location (with relaxed rules to pitch up and take down) and have an on the ground fire which was a first for us after visiting many different sites.
A very well stocked shop on site which was open late and had the option of pre booking meats and bakery items (which were extremely high quality).
Now sadly the negatives - for the three large fields that make up the campsite (which I guess could hold well over 100 people) the facilities which consisted of 5 cubicles, and 6 showers are nowhere near adequate enough, and having to queue for up to 20 mins at a time is unheard of and especially for the money that is charged.
Admittedly, it was a bank holiday weekend so was busier than usual but the toilets and showers were not up to standard and we felt sorry for the poor person cleaning them! Shame as we had high hopes for this site.
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| Date of Visit: July 2017 |
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| Reviewer: Craigys101 |
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Great campsite, kids really enjoyed being out in the open space in a safe environment.
We took 6 dads and 10 kids (aged 4-11) in tents, we were given ample space in which to pitch the tents. Two of us had hookup, which was a bit of a distance from the mains but the shop kindly lent us extension cables.
Loads of space for the kids to play football, cricket, frisbee etc. We ventured out to Aldeburgh for fish and chips on the beach one day, and also lunch and crabbing at Orford the next.
One thing to note is that the showers facilities are not in abundance when it is busy, there are two showers, plus a family bathroom with a bath and separate shower. Apparently there was a couple more in the ladies washroom. Water was always hot. Would be fine if not in the height of the summer holidays.
The facilities seemed to be cleaned regularly and the shop was perfect and had all the essentials. The washing up area was also good, plus fridges and freezers to use (although busy).
A positive is that they allow camp fires, sustainable wood is available from the shop and is £20 for a barrow load with kindling and marshmallows. The only bad thing about this is that there is no set place for you to light the fires, it's a bit of a free-for-all, this wasn't great when you are trying to pitch 6 tents together and avoid previous burnt and sunken bits of grass.
At least 3 of us had to put our tents over previous fires, if there was set places for the fires it would be a lot better and would improve the look of the fields.
The owners couldn't be more helpful, Saturday night was glow stick night where all the kids gathered and they threw a few hundred glow sticks in the air for the kids to capture!
One not so good thing was parents who let their kids run around, uncontrolled, whilst there some of them decided it was a good idea to jump over the table tennis table and break it in two. This is only the minority!
Other than that we would go back there in the future!
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| Date of Visit: August 2017 |
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| Reviewer: Joebloggs76 |
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In short I am not sure what the fuss is about. People seem to love this campsite and many people there seemed to be having a great time - but I was left somewhat wanting.
On paper and on the website - this is a cracking site. The reality is slightly different. The 'snug' is just a shed, the 'kitchen' an awning attached to the toilets and the shop isn't quite as billed. Yes there is a good range of booze but you pay for it.
There are not enough showers - and they are dirty. Now I accept that campsite showers are often dirty - the campsite cannot be expect to keep them clean 24/7 when people are in and out trawling in mud and grass. However - there is a deep seated neglect here. There are long standing cobwebs and general grime.
Rather than the warm welcome some reviewers have described, mine was a little lack lustre and curt - bordering on rude. I dunno - it was early and the owner might have just been having a bit of a day of it.
There is litter everywhere. Water bombs/balloons are sold in the shop and there is evidence of their use all over the site. As with glowsticks.
To me there were not nearly enough drinking water taps. Unlike other sites I have been to there were no fire extinguishers in evidence anywhere. This is a small thing and not a requirement but for a site that allows open fires I thought just showed a lack of care.
To be honest - that just about sums it up for me - it could be a great site but there is just a general lack of care.
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