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Skelwith Fold Caravan Park
Skelwith Fold Caravan Park
Ambleside
Cumbria (Browse area)
LA22 0HY
Tel: 015394 32277
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Pitches: 150
Open: 01/03/2026 to 21/11/2026
01/03/2027 to 15/11/2027
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 No Tents |
 Caravan Pitches |
 Motorhome Pitches |
 Small Campervans |
 Glamping Units |
 No Statics for Hire |
 Holiday Homes for Sale |
 No Seasonal Pitches |
 Electric Hookups |
 Hardstanding Pitches |
 Fully Serviced Pitches |
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| Who's it for |
 Families Welcome |
 Not Members Only |
 No Rallies |
 Not Naturist Site |
 Dogs Welcome |
 No Dogs Allowed |
 Groups Welcome |
 Motorbikers Welcome |
| Facilities |
 Toilet Facilities |
 Hot Showers |
 Washing Up |
 No Bathroom |
 Baby Changing Facilities |
 Laundry On Site |
 Drinking Water |
 Disabled Friendly |
 Chemical Disposal |
 No Battery Charging |
 Gas Exchange |
 Recycling Facilities |
 No Kitchen Facilities |
 No Freezer / Fridge |
 Motorhome Point |
 Wifi Access |
 Shop On Site |
 Bar <1 mile |
 Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway <1 mile |
| Activities |
 Kids Playground |
 No TV Room |
 No Games Room |
 No Evening Ents |
 No Fishing |
 Wild Swimming <1 mile |
 Indoor Pool <5 miles |
 No Outdoor Pool |
 No Horse Riding |
 No Cycle Hire |
 Golf <5 miles |
 Tennis <5 miles |
 No Beach |
 Watersports <5 miles |
 Boat Launch / Mooring <5 miles |
| Other Features |
 No Sea Views |
 Not Working Farm |
 No Campfires Allowed |
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 No Waterside Pitches |
 Public Transport <1 mile |
 Offroad Dog Walk On Site or Direct Access |
 Electric Car Charging Point |
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Date of Visit: August 2023  |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Nights stayed: 1 |
Travelling as: Family with older children |
| Reviewer: Fair comment |
5 reviews from this member |
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 Owing to medical circumstances beyond our control we had to cancel our booking 2 weeks before we were due to stay at this site.
I submit this review to highlight excellent customer service that I received upon contacting the site. Lorraine could not have been more understanding and sympathetic to our sudden dilemma.
I received prompt, outstanding, person to person service by telephone and an email, confirming our cancellation, and expressing their best wishes for recovery of one of our party.
To receive such personal service in this day and age is notable and should be regarded as a mark of excellence for customer relations by this site.
I have little doubt that my rating (scores based upon reputation perceived) and were necessary to enable my specific comment to be listed. 
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| Date of Visit: June 2023 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
Travelling as: Family with young children |
| Reviewer: Jd61062 |
1 review from this member |
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There is certainly nothing to dislike about this site.
Very friendly staff, site is spotless and picturesque.
A nice walk into town, takes about 45 minutes, but there’s a bus stop at the park entrance.
Lots to do and see in Ambleside or surrounding area.
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| Date of Visit: June 2023 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Nights stayed: 5 |
Travelling as: Extended family |
| Reviewer: Poter |
6 reviews from this member |
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Visited on 11th June, a plesent, quiet and very peaceful site. Lucky enough to see two Deer when walkin along Bog Lane. Woodland walks wonderful.
The toilets and showers are immaculate, washing up facilities also very clean, and the site as a whole very clean and tidy. Plenty for kids to do and the new kids play park is a dream for younger kids.
The well stocked shop became very handy if something is left at home.
The staff that we met, were very friendly and helpful in our situation, as we had no electrics, by lending us extension leads. (our main trip switch box in the caravan burnt out) thanks to Clair, Paul, Alan, Matt, Lesley and others for all their help in getting us though our holiday break.
We will definitely be returning.
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| Date of Visit: May 2023 |
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| Nights stayed: 20 |
Travelling as: Retired couple |
| Reviewer: DylanOES |
44 reviews from this member |
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Without a doubt, the best site so far on our UK tour. We have absolutely nothing negative to report.
All staff were extremely friendly, helpful and efficient.
A pitch-change (our decision, nothing wrong with our first location) was quick and easy.
Facilities all excellent, with a well-stocked shop, book/DVD exchange, huge laundry, fresh croissants at the weekend, quality pizza van visits on Fridays, and a special event laid-on for the coronation.
Fantastic play equipment for children, including all-weather 5-a-side pitch, plus large, separate recreation area.
Endless footpaths and very quiet road walks through the site, the forest and to Ambleside (superb little town).
Easy quiet road walk (1. 2 miles) to the 'Drunken Duck' pub / restaurant / brewery (result !), with fantastic views from outdoor tables.
Overall, these are standards that every site should aspire to - we'll be back.
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| Date of Visit: October 2022 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: Azza65 |
8 reviews from this member |
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Absolutely lovely site,
Facilities excellent and clean and a great area for walking and cycling,
You can walk to elterwater and skelwith bridge and further on to great Langdale
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| Date of Visit: June 2022 |
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| Nights stayed: 3 |
Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: Twomax |
2 reviews from this member |
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Quite an expansive site, set among woodlands with a reasonably long private driveway leading to it from the ‘main’ road. A nice touch was the ANPR camera which displayed our registration number on a digital welcome board as we drove up it.
The site is mainly residential static caravans with 2 or 3 touring areas, all with gravel pitches. We arrived during Jubilee weekend and the site put on its own street party which was very well attended.
As the weekend ended, the tourers left and we practically had the whole touring area to ourselves.
The toilets were immaculate with underfloor heating, a dishwashing area, chemical toilet disposal and a motorhome service point. Wifi was free for 24 hours, then £15.
There are a lot of nice walks from the site and we walked into Ambleside a couple of times, about 3 miles or so, where there are lots of nice pubs, shops and restaurant. Ambleside has THREE cinemas, 2 of which are attached to vegetarian restaurants to you can have a meal and watch a movie or vice versa.
The site has a well stocked on site shop and the staff we spoke to were all friendly and appeared happy to be there. One lady we spoke to said she’d been there for 10 years and felt it wasn’t like work for her, she enjoyed it so much, a glowing endorsement.
Overall a very nice site with excellent facilities and very friendly staff.
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| Date of Visit: May 2022 |
Unit: Campervan |
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| Nights stayed: 3 |
Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: [email protected] |
5 reviews from this member |
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Very friendly staff.
Extremely good, clean facilities - warm and nicely tiled, more like you'd expect in a hotel!
Well stocked shop.
Plenty of hot water for showers.
Dog friendly.
Nearest pub is about a mile away. Nice site, mainly statics but good spaces for tourers.
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| Date of Visit: June 2021 |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
Travelling as: Young couple |
| Reviewer: Heidi03 |
5 reviews from this member |
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Big site but when we found our pitch we were tucked away surrounded by trees so you really couldn’t tell.
Lovely short walks from/on site as well as walks to Windermere, Ambleside and Wray castle.
Lovely, helpful wardens in their golf buggies. Told us we’d struggle to screw the dogs into the ground anywhere which saved us trying a bunch of times.
Great Covid policy in place with sanitiser given to all guests.
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| Date of Visit: October 2020 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: Damaca |
96 reviews from this member |
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Lovely extensive site, beautifully laid out in woods. There are plenty of statics here, but as the site is so spacious and wooded it does not feel large or overcrowded.
The main toilet/shower block (there are at least 2 others) is really 5*, - warm, clean and very roomy. The small shop was still working during Covid, but annoyingly not the drying room. Other precautions seemed sensible.
The advertised wifi didn't seem to work. A 20 minute walk down a quiet lane leads to Skelwith Bridge where there's a pub/café.
I agree with a previous reviewer, there's no real need to book the rather expensive premium pitches, a standard one (still not cheap) would have done for us.
There's a nice looking playground too.
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| Date of Visit: April 2020 |
Unit: Static |
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| Nights stayed: 3 |
Travelling as: Extended family |
| Reviewer: WilliamMcBeard |
6 reviews from this member |
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Well this stay will always be remembered as the Covid stay. The drive up was the usual ~M6 and then Bowness route for the folks, I drove up from Burnley/Neson over towards Yorkshire and across. I do love leaving work on a Friday and having 1. 5 hours to myself.
The magnitude of the lockdown became apparent and the ideal of a pint in Stickle Barn after climbing Bowfell and Crinckle Craggs became a no go. The climb went ahead, as did an early Sunday visit to FellFoot, but then it became clear that we would be returning home Monday morning and wouldn't see this wonderful place in a while.
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