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Canal Side Caravan Site
31 Grindley Brook
Grindley Brook
Shropshire (Browse area)
SY13 4QJ
Tel: 01948 663284 or 07935269084
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Pitches: 39 pitches including 35seasonal
Open: 01/03/2026 to 30/10/2026
15/03/2027 to 16/10/2027
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 No Tents |
 Caravan Pitches |
 Motorhome Pitches |
 Small Campervans |
 No Glamping Units |
 No Statics for Hire |
 No Statics for Sale |
 Seasonal Pitches |
 Electric Hookups |
 Hardstanding Pitches |
 No Fully Serviced Pitches |
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| Who's it for |
 Adults Only |
 Not Members Only |
 No Rallies |
 Not Naturist Site |
 Dogs Welcome |
 No Dogs Allowed |
 Groups Welcome |
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| Facilities |
 Toilet Facilities |
 Hot Showers |
 Washing Up |
 No Bathroom |
 No Baby Changing |
 No Laundry |
 Drinking Water |
 Disabled Friendly |
 Chemical Disposal |
 No Battery Charging |
 No Gas Exchange |
 Recycling Facilities |
 No Kitchen Facilities |
 Freezer / Fridge |
 No Motorhome Point |
 Wifi Access |
 Shop <1 mile |
 Bar <1 mile |
 Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway <1 mile |
| Activities |
 No Playground |
 No TV Room |
 No Games Room |
 No Evening Ents |
 Fishing <1 mile |
 No Wild Swimming |
 Indoor Pool <1 mile |
 No Outdoor Pool |
 No Horse Riding |
 No Cycle Hire |
 Golf <1 mile |
 Tennis <1 mile |
 No Beach |
 No Watersports |
 No Boat Launch |
| Other Features |
 No Sea Views |
 Not Working Farm |
 No Campfires Allowed |
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 Canalside Pitches |
 Public Transport On Site |
 Offroad Dog Walk On Site or Direct Access |
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| Date of Visit: June 2016 |
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| Reviewer: Geofftheshed |
1 review from this member |
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 Have just returned after a week at this little gem of a site. Easy booking in and a friendly welcome from denise. Very well kept site with a relaxed atmosphere. All toilets and showers spotless all the time we were there. Fantastic location just a couple of minutes drive from whitchurch. Lovely canal side walks via a coded gate. Turn left and 25 mins to willeymoor lock pub. Turn right to staircase lock and great lockside cafe only 3-4 minutes walk. Horse and jockey pub over the road was a delight. Great site for touring cheshire and shropshire or just chilling by the canal. We will definitely be returning here. Geoff and viv 
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| Date of Visit: June 2016 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Debbie c |
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Just returned from Canal Side after a 4 night stay. This was our first visit but will not be our last. A very well maintained, pretty site with fully serviced pitches including TV point.
Toilet and shower facilities were adequate and very clean.
The grounds are well maintained with trees and shrubs. Also the grass was cut while we were there and the cuttings were collected instead of clumps of cut grass left lying around waiting to get trampled into your caravan, like on so many sites.
A 2 minute walk and your at the canal with a nice cafe in one direction at a set of locks and a pub in the other direction also at a set of locks.
There's also another pub opposite the entrance to the site.
Security gates/barriers on all entrances including the gate to the canal mean that even on foot no one can enter the site making it very secure.
The owners were very friendly, welcoming and helpful.
Definitely worth another visit.
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| Date of Visit: June 2016 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: PeteLuc |
22 reviews from this member |
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Most points have been covered by previous reviews! Arrival was simple enough. Pulled up to the gate and the owners came straight out and welcomed us on to the site, points out where the facilities are, took the money then showed us to our pitch. Security is pretty reasonable with a code required to get back in either driving or via the pedestrian gates.
The site itself is kept very nicely. The grass is in good condition and not a sign of litter anywhere. The toilets and showers are a little basic being in what appeared to be plastic lined sheds, but they were fully functional, clean and no problems with the hot water supply. 50p for a shower is maybe a little tight, plus the time is a little short. There is plenty of room for dogs to run up at the top field, plus with the site being directly on the canal, there are plenty of options to walk. The pitches are hard standing for both van and awning with the car parked to one side, which for me restricted the area to be able to sit out quite dramatically. With a full size awning up there was not enough room to sit out on the grass with next doors car parked there, so for me the pitches are too small. There is room, just, to sit in front of your van but this then puts you on public display!
A short walk from the site is the lock side cafe, a garage with a small shop and a pub. The shop had most the basics. The pub we thought was pretty good with a reasonable range of food and drink available. The pub is dog friendly. We ate there on a couple of occasions as we thought the food was of a good standard. Head in the opposite direction out of the site is another pub (Willeymoor lock) which had a good selection of food and drink also, but we didn't think the food was as good a standard as the Horse and Jockey across the road from the site. This pub is around half an hour walk and is also dog friendly. Whitchurch is a couple of miles away and has all the amenities you could want, including some good pubs!
So overall, the good points
Well kept
Dog friendly
Good location
Good value for money
Adults only
The even better ifs
Slightly longer in the showers, or free would be better
Another four foot on the pitch width!
A little less do this, don't do that signage. Plus it is an adult only site, but the owners had the grandson in tow at one point. At times it seemed a little controlling, without the rules being adhered to by the owners.
A phone mast in the area! Ok not the fault of the site but we got intermittent signal on EE with data not possible most of the time, Vodaphone rarely picked up. This of course may be considered a plus.
We certainly intend to return so overall I can recommend and say that we were happy there.
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| Date of Visit: April 2016 |
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| Reviewer: Wp1234 |
13 reviews from this member |
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Site is located on the canal with access to it through a coded gate. An OK site and I'm sure very nice in the height of summer with some hot weather.
The pub across the road is nice enough and food is good and not too expensive.
The site has two shower blocks, the one furthest away from the enterance needs some refurb I would say especially if you get charged an extra 50p for the 2 minutes of hot water ( a bit mean I thought on top of the £20 per night).
The laminating machine has found it way here with a myriad of 'do not do this ' ' do not do that' signs erected all over the place. I suppose if your bored here you could play 'hunt the sign'.
Also felt a bit out of place without a dog so it must be a good site for owners.
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| Date of Visit: September 2015 |
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| Nights stayed: 5 |
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| Reviewer: Bridget Clarke |
12 reviews from this member |
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What a charming site and beautiful location with the canal right outside the site with a lovely walk along the towpath to a charming pub which served food. There was also a pub across the road also a garage. The site also had a small shop selling vital necessities for your food cupboard. The owners Trevor and Denise were very welcoming and helpful. I sh all certainly be returning to this pleasant site.
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| Date of Visit: August 2015 |
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| Reviewer: CunninghamP-L |
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We stayed at this site with our two dogs in early August. The owners were lovely and as we were going to a wedding straight from our stay they very kindly stored our suit carriers for us. The site is quiet and the toilets and showers although in 'sheds' were always clean. The pitches have power and TV connection and there is cables avalable to buy from the owners shop. Showers were 50p and you need a 50p piece (no change). We walked both ways along the canal through a gate straight off the site, firstly to Whitchurch (small town with a nice mix of shops) which took about 45 minutes. There is a choice of pubs to eat and drink in, we found 'The old town hall vaults' friendly with good food. Also the 'White Bear' had music on. The other way along the canal was 'Willey Moor' with beer garden. There is also 'The horse and jockey' just over the road from the site which served food daily. We had mixed weather but met some lovely people on the site who gave us the info for places to go and eat. We visited Colemere and spent an hour walking the Mere and also Ellesmere for a walk.
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| Date of Visit: August 2015 |
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| Reviewer: Peter K Frame |
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We stayed for four nights, a lovely family run site. The staff were very helpful and took time to find us a electric hook up lead at no charge. We will stay again at this lovely site.
The site is dog friendly which is very important having a Labrador, there is loo pen and a big top field to exercise your dog in. There are walks along the canal in both directions with one taking you to the town of Whitchurch where you can purchase just about anything. There is a pub on the doorstep with good food and beers. All round pleasant site.
Peter
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| Date of Visit: August 2015 |
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| Reviewer: Jiggin |
10 reviews from this member |
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Wonderfull and quite quiet camp site run by a lovely friendly man. It is on the side of the Llangollen canal where you can feed the ducks and by the Grindly Brook staircase locks, where you can watch the barges come and go through the numerous locks. There is one men's and one ladies toilet with a shared shower that are kept very clean. Fresh water tap and elsan point with rinsing tap. Electric hook up is available at a small charge. Dogs are allowed if kept on a lead which is probably the one and only must be obeyed rule. There is a further field which is used for caravan rally's but can be used as an overflow if site is full, providing there is no rally on. Over the bridge on the other side of the canal is a lovely shop / cafe where you can eat in or take away delicious food. A little further is th Horse and Jocky pub where you can also get a nice meal. Across the road from the pub is a larger shop and a garage. Not an expensive site and really good value.
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| Date of Visit: August 2015 |
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| Reviewer: Baldrick2 |
21 reviews from this member |
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This site in located by the side of the canal and has direct assess by a gate, you have to put in a code in order to re-enter. The canal is delightful with the barges travelling up and down. The locks of Grindley Brook are within a few minutes walk, also the Lockside Café. There is a pub across the road and also one half an hours cycle ride along the towpath if you turn left from the site. Whitchurch is approx. 1 and a half miles along the towpath, a lovely cycle ride. The site itself is set out in two fields, the further one having seasonal pitches and afew touring pitches, where we were pitched. You have no choice and are escorted to your pitch on arrival. There is a facilities block in this area, which has a radio on constantly, which we could hear from your pitch. The recycling bins are also sited by the block, the banging of the bottles in the glass bin goes on until nearly midnight. There was no soap in the toilets. The showers are 50p which have the slots outside the shower cubicles. You have 4 minutes of water before it switches off. There are a lot of rules and regulations, which are fair enough when adhered to, but the 5mph is not, cars come speeding in through the entrance of this field. One rule, which is really common sense to most, of the electricity cables being unravelled for fire safety, there were a few plugged into the mains but still wrapped on the cable reels. There was constant traffic noise from the road outside the site. This was not a site we would return to, a shame as the canal location is lovely.
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| Date of Visit: June 2015 |
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| Reviewer: Vanoholic |
2 reviews from this member |
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We really liked this site - very relaxed and friendly - large pitches, good location. Owner helped us reverse onto our pitch and was always around to help if we needed her. We were in the top field so we were close to the toilets. The traffic noise didn't bother us at all. We used the pub opposite twice - good food and beer. Road was a bit of a nightmare to cross - caution needed. Little shop at the petrol station selling the basics. Lovely canal walks too. I would return!
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| Date of Visit: June 2015 |
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| Reviewer: BB29 |
32 reviews from this member |
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My husband and I stayed here for 3 nights. Denise who showed us to our pitch was very helpful and informative. The site is well kept. There are two blocks of facilities both kept immaculately clean, never had to queue for a shower. (don't forget your 50p's) There is a small shop with essentials with an honesty box which I think is a nice touch. There is a laundry room with washer, dryer, clothes line, iron, ironing board, fridge, freezer and microwave. Plenty of walks in and around the area, we had a leisurely walk to Whitchurch along the canal path took about an hour, Whitchurch is definitely worth a visit, plenty of shops! Very peaceful campsite which we will definitely return to.
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| Date of Visit: May 2015 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Jarvis9 |
10 reviews from this member |
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We agree with the reviewer that said 'not for us'. Way too many rules.
The good aspects were its location which is great, right next to the canal and at the end of the Sandstone Trail. Lots to do on the doorstep.
The facilities are a little jaded. But what would stop us from returning was the attitude toward us having two cars and parking for a very short time to unload. We came away quite upset about the way we had been spoken to.
Such a shame as this is a beautifully kept site and has lots going for it.
We did ponder for a while how the rule about not letting your dog go to the loo on site could be maintained. I mean, he goes where he goes and we always pick up.
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| Date of Visit: April 2015 |
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| Reviewer: Johneoldham |
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Just got back from a great five days, what a lovely site, 5 minute walk from the canal. Only 2 miles into Whitchurch. Just across the road is the Horse & Jockey pub, great food at good prices. 10amp hook up, water tap and TV aerial connection also, very handy. The toilets and showers were brilliant, can not fault them, exceptionally clean. Also a couple of places to wash the dishes, and plenty of bins for recycling.
. The owners were great, nothing too much trouble and although always busy, still had time for a friendly chat. Hopefully it won't be too long before we are back again. Thanks again. John and Maureen.
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| Date of Visit: April 2015 |
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| Reviewer: Caravanmac |
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Just returned after a great weekend from this gem of a site, owners very helpful, easy access, very secure and very clean. The 5 Grindley canal lock system is on the doorstep and with a pub serving good food and real ale 50 mts away what more can you need. And at £17 for a fully serviced pitch with free wifi I will be going back.
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| Date of Visit: May 2015 |
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| Reviewer: Robbie 2 |
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We received a warm welcome from Denise and she showed us to our pitch which was hardstanding. The cost £18. 00 is very good. You do have to pay extra for the showers, awnings and dogs(like many sites)
There is a dog friendly pub over the road which sells great beers. The toilet and shower blocks are dated but clean. The only problem is the elderly gentleman who helps run the site does not know how to speak to paying guests. I am 56 year adult and don't need to be spoken to like a school child over reversing my car on his grass?
Even the taxi driver would not drive to close to the site driveway. Our friends went to the site to ask about a seasonal pitch and he would not let them in. We have spoke to a few people who have had problems with this gentleman before. On this note we will take our custom elsewhere.
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