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Southland Caravan And Motorhome Club Site
Winford Rd
Newchurch
Sandown
Isle Of Wight (Browse area)
PO36 0LZ
Tel: 01342 327 490
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Pitches: 174
Open: 16/03/2026 to 05/11/2026
16/03/2027 to 05/11/2027
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 Tent Pitches |
 Caravan Pitches |
 Motorhome Pitches |
 Small Campervans |
 No Glamping Units |
 Holiday Homes for Hire |
 No Statics for Sale |
 Seasonal Pitches |
 Electric Hookups |
 Hardstanding Pitches |
 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 |
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| Facilities |
 Toilet Facilities |
 Hot Showers |
 Washing Up |
 Bathroom |
 No Baby Changing |
 Laundry On Site |
 Drinking Water |
 Disabled Friendly |
 Chemical Disposal |
 No Battery Charging |
 Gas Exchange |
 No Recycling Facilities |
 No Kitchen Facilities |
 No Freezer / Fridge |
 Motorhome Point |
 Wifi Access |
 No Shop |
 Bar <1 mile |
 No Restaurant |
| Activities |
 Kids Playground |
 No TV Room |
 No Games Room |
 No Evening Ents |
 No Fishing |
 No Wild Swimming |
 Indoor Pool <5 miles |
 No Outdoor Pool |
 Horse Riding <5 miles |
 No Cycle Hire |
 Golf <5 miles |
 No Tennis |
 Beach <5 miles |
 No Watersports |
 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 |
 No Dog Walk |
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| Date of Visit: July 2010 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Reviewer: Igworm |
4 reviews from this member |
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 We had stayed at this site last year just after the Caravan Club had taken over. On returning this year what a difference! The site as been extended and now has some hard-standing and service pitches.
The facilities have been updated and modified. The children's play area has been moved and is now on the dge of the site. The site re-opened about ten days before the school holidays started and when we visited there were only six units on site!
There is a bus service from outside the site to Shanklin or Ryde and only a short walk to the bus-stop for Sandown or Newport. A local car-hire company can provide a hire car if you don't wish to move your unit whilst on site. 
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| Date of Visit: August 2010 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Bigb123 |
2 reviews from this member |
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As usual with caravan club sites standard. Very good new showers, no push button jobs, spotless. Some new hard standing pitches. Wardens all ok. Pity the club cant supply good weather but had a few nice days. Would definitely recommend this site. Could do with a bigger play area for children. Pegs were not very firm when knocked in the ground, they became loose when it turned windy and 4 of them came out of ground, they might be better on grass pitches. On one part of site grass pitches seemed to be very close together, not the normal space between them. But overall it is a very nice site
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| Date of Visit: July 2009 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: John + Maxine |
3 reviews from this member |
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We have visited this site before it was owned by the caravan club. Not a lot changed yet, but the proposals for this site will only improve an already excellent caravan park.
We have visited the Isle of Wight many times, sometimes twice a year staying on different sites, and we have to say that this is our favourite.
The site is very tranquil; six wardens (3 couples) were on site in July. The wardens and staff maintain it to the high standard that you come to expect from a caravan club site. Pitches were not treated between 2008 and 2009 season, previously the grass has been in outstanding condition but this year it looked a little tired, probably due to the previous owner having done the deal with caravan club and decided not to foot the cost of the fertiliser between seasons.
We have only been on Southland out of school summer holidays. There is a small children’s playground in the corner. Not much else to do for kids. If you like a nice quite site where you can hear only the birds sing this is the site for you.
There is a field at the back of the site where you can sit and watch the sunset. There is a dog walk around the perimeter of the site.
Spotlessly clean toilet block with small shower cubicles for which we were told will be refurbished during the closed season.
The Caravan Club have made the pitches bigger. Where there were 6 or 7 pitches in an area there are now only 5. They were a bit squeezed in before
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| Date of Visit: July 2009 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Hickman57 |
1 review from this member |
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Word on the site was that over £2.0m was going to be spent on it over the winter I do hope the 'enhancements' don't mean the character of the site is lost, we loved it there. The pitches were large enough not to be looking straight in the next door's car or caravan, easily enough room for a bbq and relax.
We found the site to be child friendly especially as it was at the beginning of the summer holidays. Come dusk the noise ceased and tranquillity rained supreme. Plenty of room for our 5 year old to ride his bike around the site and kick a ball in the play area. If this area is not big enough, over the back of the site is a huge area where the kids could kick a ball, play hide and seek or spot insects. Our 5 year old and 2 1/2 year old loved it down there. As its fenced off there's no danger of them escaping so we could sit on a bench and watch the world go by while they played to their hearts content.
Laundry - usual £3 for a wash didn't use the dryer. Wind took care of that. Washing up area easily big enough to cope with a site full over the summer. Info room very good with daily updated weather forecasts. Toilet block and showers satisfied the needs without any discomfort. We got a key for a room that was decked out in Dora stickers with a belfast sink in it, nice and warm and we managed in here quite easily.
The site is 35 minutes from Yarmouth and about 20 minutes from Fishbourne and East Cowes. Personally I preferred the Lymington crossing as the scenery is nice and pleasant and you don't have the hassle of driving into a city centre. We went from Portsmouth but back to Lymington as we continued to Cornwall.
Some good local pubs, the fighting cocks on the main road about 3 mins from the site is good. As said before the island is a little more expensive than the mainland but where we ate out they all seemed to be booked up which must say something.
Go to Ryde by train from Lake. £3 return for each adult kids loved it and it saved a load on petrol and parking. Sandown beach is lovely, parking's a little problematic but not bad enough to keep you away. Wouldn't go to the needles again, a complete rip off. Cowes is lovely, park at East Cowes which has loads of free parking in the road and use the chain ferry which is also free to foot passengers. Blackgang Chine sorted a cloudy day. We all loved it. Never got to Robin Hill but I loved it there 20 years ago. Cycle path on an old railway line about half mile from site that goes into Newport (6 miles) and Sandown (2 miles). Didn't use it this time.
Word to the wise. We booked the ferry crossing in March cost just over £100 with the CC. However the CC never informed me that the timetables changed for the summer in mid July and the return crossing back to Lymington had moved forward by 25 minutes. Good job I'm sad enough to check the timetables!
As I've said before, we loved the site and will definitely return in the future, as CC sites go this was up there with the best. We met lovely people and had a super time!
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| Date of Visit: July 2009 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Nickcb |
10 reviews from this member |
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Typical Caravan Club efficiency, well kept and well managed. The dog walk is a long corridor between fences, boring really and no chance of walking them out of the site because there is no pavement. The young 'locals' think the road is a practice track for Le Mons. That's sad because there is a huge field owned by the CC next to the dog walk and the notice said Reserved For Children or something like that. I have to say that it was totally unused and should be opened up for our canine friends.
There is a Fish & Chip van which turns up on certain evenings! They can't be bothered to prepare their own chips,just cheap frozen fries and I won't even mention the square block of Cod? (captive audience and a licence to print money?)
Don't let me put you off this site It's great especially as the Garlic shop is just up the road.
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| Date of Visit: May 2009 |
Unit: Trailer Tent |
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| Reviewer: Pugwash645 |
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We have posted a review as this site has changed hands over the 2008/9 winter and would like to point out a few changes which have happened which you may like to bear in mind before returning. The site is now owned by the Caravan Club. We have a trailer tent but the Caravan club allowed us to keep the booking. I have to point out that we have 3 girls under 5 so the main criterion for us choosing this site was the availability of a family bathroom.
Most of the plus points mentioned in the 2008 reviews still apply the site is very well landscaped etc but the management has changed for the worse. They have removed the family bathroom and the family shower room from use. When we complained that we had made the booking mainly for the family bathroom, they said that it had never existed and was never mentioned on the web site. We confirmed with other people who had been to the site previous years that a bathroom and shower room did exist and we could see it though the windows.
Basically I would not expect the same service implied by previous reviews although the physical facilities of the site mostly remain, making it a good site with a nice play area, badly run and not so child friendly any longer. We did get away with using the baby change area as a family wash area which saved the day. Shame as the holiday was excellent in every other way. The child attractions are great, Blackgang, Robbin Hill and Model Village being notable favourites. Personally I loved rock pooling on Bembridge beach with the kids at low tide priceless fun literally!
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| Date of Visit: May 2009 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: TaviGav |
10 reviews from this member |
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I can't really add much more to what others have said before me, the site was kept very tidy and toilets / showers were clean nearly all the time. Showers could do with a little updating as they were a little small with practically nowhere to put your dry clothes.
Wardens were very accommodating and helpful, as CC had made a bit of a hash of my ferry booking, meaning our ferry was 15.30 instead of 12.30, the wardens allowed us to stay on site until we needed too.
Plenty to do on the island (too much to list) but what I would say is avoid the needles park unless you enjoy being ripped off for a sub standard attraction.
We found prices on the island a bit more pricey than on the mainland, eating out is not cheap so invest in a Cadac and cook on site.
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| Date of Visit: May 2008 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Reviewer: Stratman |
5 reviews from this member |
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Can add nothing that others haven't already said. In our relatively short camping experience this is the best site we have used, and very economic as we booked through Red Funnel and got a really good deal.
It has been a few years since we visited the Island and found that it seems to have become very run down, especially Sandown and very expensive to eat out at reasonable quality restaurants. Also found the roads in very poor repair all over the Island (worse than parts of Surrey that we visit and count as the worst roads in the country!) .Best off site amenity. Car Parking season tickets, we paid £20 for 4days which allowed us to use any council car park, without restriction any where on the Island. Cornwall take note!
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| Date of Visit: September 2008 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Mikeybel |
1 review from this member |
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Weather was dreadful all week torrential rain but site held up very well quickly drained between storms. Quiet, nicely laid out, good size pitches, facilities could not be faulted for cleanliness. Showers in the men's small and a little dated. Never saw the ladies but wife says they are first class. Nothing much locally so a car is essential. Would we visit again yes. Is it worth its rating -- yes.
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| Date of Visit: August 2008 |
Unit: Trailer Tent |
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| Reviewer: Briandsange |
5 reviews from this member |
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Initially wanted to use the site which is allied to the caravan club until I learned that they would charge me £2.50 per night per dog,this is a disgrace. So we arrived here and am I glad we did, nothing to add to what has already been said because it is all correct.The site also benefits from wireless free internet access which was useful to me. There are many eating pubs locally, although not walking distance. If you can drive then try the Crab and Lobster Inn at Bembridge. All in all we enjoyed our stay and would not hesitate to return.
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