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Just got back from yet another enjoyable stay at this site. This year the already great site (love those showers!) has had a few more improvements (new water stand-pipe areas & some resurfacing).
The people running the site are very friendly & helpful, despite us visiting at peak season.
I just love the great walking to be had in all directions straight from the site. Good wildlife to be spotted (Badgers, Bats, Deer & an overload of blackberries!).
Huge list of things to see & do, but in brief:
Walking (to Corfe), Wareham, Swanage, Old Harry's rocks, Purbeck hills, SW coastal path etc.
Disappointing after all the good reviews. Chucking it down with rain which is not a problem however, the mud was. Site was fully booked so no pitch rotation and a complete mudbath. Van stuck in the mud three times and one member of the party ended up in A & E after falling over in the mud and breaking a bone. Real pity as the facilities were very good and the staff friendly. Perhaps a victim of their own success!
This is our favourite site so far. Lovely site surround by trees, very friendly and relaxed. Good, spotlessy clean facilities. Levellers needed on most of the pitches which are grass and un-marked.
Footpaths straight from site to Corfe village (about 1.5 miles), which has a castle, shops, tea rooms and several pubs (The Greyhound had lovely food and was dog friendly). From Corfe you can get a bus/or train to Swanage or Wareham.
If you like regimented, hardstanding pitches - maybe this ones not for you.
Just back from here. Sign to site hard to spot, bushes need to be cut back, lane very bumpy. Once in wardens friendly & helpful, toilet block was clean & tidy. Site overall was good, will be even better when grass gets a chance to grow on some pitches. Nice walks from site into Corfe good shops & pubs. Very good pub & food in Church Knowle. We will be going back to this site soon
One of the best sites I have been to- and I have been to a few.
Toilet block spotless- 5 beautiful and very powerful showers in the ladies. Cubicals for washing as well as separate sinks with hair dryers free of charge. Family room has walk in shower/ baby changing table and a sink and hairdryer (£5 deposit needed for key). Disabled room has walk in shower/ Bars around toilet and a sink etc.
Pitches are amongst the trees which is great as not so formal. Down side is slope- most pitches slope downhill although the site more than makes up for this in its beauty. Small playground for children amongst the trees, and basic groceries can be picked up from the reception. Wardens couldn't be any more helpful, really great service.
Nearest super market is in Wareham- about 5-6 miles away- small co-op. Corfe is lovely, really pretty- castle is a short walk down the road- well worth a visit. Studland bay is the nearest beach- 5 miles away. Beach is beautiful and clean as national trust, £4.00 for parking all day- and one of the little cafes even lets you borrow windbreakers and buckets and spades free of charge.The steam train ride from Corfe to swanage is well worth a trip- really old fashioned and fun for the kids.
We stayed from Sat to Wed of Whitsun week. As per other comments, lane very bumpy and we found the site by a fluke as not clearly signposted.
Cannot fault the site! Lovely that you are not put in regimented lines!
Toilets and showers spotless and even though the site was full we did not need to queue in either gents or ladies.
Managers are very pleasant and helpful.
Lovely walk from the site into Corfe and into next village. Ideal location for seeing Lulworth, all the fossil beaches, steam train to Swanage etc.
Only drawback for us, even though we have children, was that we were put on site next to children's playground! Playground is lovely for the children but some kiddies are better behaved than others.
We will definitely go back to this site, we had a wonderful holiday and it was so nice to camp in a small 'glade' rather than a sterile field!
Have just returned from Corfe Castle site and had a lovely stay. I agree with comments in the previous posting re signing (needs a C&CC sign) and access to the site - very narrow and bumpy.
The proprietors are a lovely couple, very helpful and friendly.
There is a lot of work going on to terrace and grass over some level pitches but at the moment there are very few level pitches to be had, so chocs, blocks and anything else you can get your hands on will be required!
The pitches are not regimented at the moment which gives a much more relaxed appearance to the site, stick your unit in roughly the right place and pointing up, down or sideways - whichever suits.
The play area is small and perhaps a bit limited for older children.
The facilities were spotless but I imagine there will be queues for the showers in peak season.
The location is fabulous and the village is walking distance along a beautiful path from the top of the site.
Overall a small, relaxed, quiet and friendly site in a beautiful location. Would definitely come again.
We visited this site for our first trip of 2009. We have just joined the C&CC and this was our first club site.
Having read the previous reviews they confirm the site is in a very nice location.
The site was very wet, where there was flat ground there was a lot of standing water. There was no C&CC sign from road, so we initially ignored the entry as it looked like a bridle way. The site access is very narrow and the lane is very pot holed.
There are new roads being constructed around the site (not fished at time of our visit) which again are very narrow and I would expect large units to struggle.
The proprietors allowed us to park on the access road as we would otherwise have become stuck. Most of the pitches are on a slope.
They have failed to get planning permission this year for hard standing so until they do or use some other kind of grass reinforcement the site will not be very practical for motorhomes.
One other niggle was the fact that the fresh water tap was just that, very hard to get a hose on to fill a MH tank. The waste water tap and a fitting ideal to put your fresh water hose.
As some others have stated, a good toilet block but will get pushed in high season.
If you are a camper or caravanner then this site has a lot going for it.
Stayed here for h/t and despite the occasional downpour had a fantastic time. Ground a little damp underfoot, but aside from this lovely site, great walks and very friendly staff.
Good facilities, very clean (even when muddy) and loads of hot water. All in all excellent location.
Stayed at the site August Bank Holiday weekend, it had coped well with the previous weeks downpours, a couple of sites were unusable.
Owners friendly, even walking us to our pitch.
Shower and toilet block was all fairly new, and kept quite clean considering all the mud from the rain. Nice to have proper shower doors in the shower area keeping your individual changing area dry - showers were free, just had to keep pushing the button every 30 seconds or so, which wasn't a problem.
A busy site with plenty of pitches spread out amongst the trees, not many of them level though. But because the site is spread through a selection of trees you never seemed on top of other campers even though the site was full.
We were in the field near the play area and it did get noisy early and until sun down or slightly after, but as it was some of our children enjoying the rope swing and three swings plus one climbing frame, we couldn't complain!
A great location, not sign posted well though, just a brown caravan and camping sign off the C road and a long track to the campsite.
This camp site is now a Camping and Caravan club site so rules on distance between tents will help to keep this a site where you don't feel on top of your neighbours.
They have a planning application in to terrace pitches so perhaps in 2009 the site might have more level sites.
The site is now also known as Corfe Castle amping And Caravanning Club Site and had previously been known as Woodlands Camping site.
What a lovely site! We stayed here with our 3 boys aged 10,12 and 15 and they were quite happy to play in the playground and hang around with other children. The site was full but we never had to queue for showers etc and they were always clean and tidy. Friendly, helpful owners, even when a neighbouring camper asked us to move our porch 'cos it was where his children played(!) - we did but the owner said he hadn't had a problem with it. Good places to visit - Kimmeridge, Studland, Swanage, Lulworth. Will visit again.
Are first visit to this beautifully secluded in a rural location with magnificent scenic walks through surrounding countryside ,Corfe castle / village about 3/4 of a mile walk,good village shop with all essentials although there is a small shop onsite but not much choice.
Very beautiful studland knoll Beach only 5 miles away,Good beach cafe bbq area /showers.
Swanage has a wide range of attractions,good value for money.
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Good play area for the kids,are children spent a lot of time in the play area and made friends with other children ,enjoyed it very much.
The toilet / shower / laundry block was excellent and kept very clean.
Only problem we found was pitch we had was too small for are tent and very muddy not allowing the grass to grow .Very noisy next to play area.
All pitches that week all too close,not what I would expect from the camping and caravanning club.
Owners are new very pleasant, have children of there own, they can be very loud at times when unsupervised and allowed to run around park.
Hope the new owners will continue to update the park to make it more suitable for tents and better shop with more choice .Would go again only if able to choose a suitable pitch.
Stayed 4 nights (Monday through to Friday) at this very pleasant site. This was our first time camping (2 adults & 1 teenager) and we weren't too sure what to expect. We had a warm welcome from the couple running the site. Our pitch was in the top field, on a bit of a slope but not something which was a problem (but as noted in other reviews most of the caravans & camper-vans had lots of blocks and chocks!).
We were up by the trees but had lots of sunshine in the early morning and into the late afternoon. The weather was hot and dry, so no problems with the ground. The EHU worked without any problems, the owners offered to lend an extension if our lead didn't reach the hook-up.
There is a children's play area with climbing frames and swings. It was next to our pitch but all the kids were back with there families by about 2200, so no great disturbances! It was very quiet at night apart from the Army practising their night gunnery on the Wednesday night!.
The toilet/shower/laundry block was excellent and kept very clean. The water temperature in the showers was a bit fierce though! We didn't have to queue to use the showers - we just avoided the peak times.
Corfe Castle was a short walk away and has the usual newsagents, bakers, general store, pubs, oh, and a castle. The steam train into Swannage is fun, and the beautiful Lulworth Cove & Durdle Dore are only a half hour drive away. Walks in the area are well signposted.
The site was getting busier by the Friday, but then we are just getting into the school holidays. We'd be very happy to stay their again.
As stated many times the owners are very friendly and made us fill very welcome, the best thing is he walked around with us to choose our pitch and then left us alone to get on with it, many of the C&CC sites have wardens that stand over you keeping an eye to make sure you pitch to the site rules, the warden at Corfe Castle was much more laid back, that suits us.
The toilet facilities were clean, but a bit small, I felt they could do with a few more showers.
A small shop sold milk, rolls, cold drinks etc etc.
The site does slope in many places, but we had a fairly flat pitch, I don’t have chocks and we were ok.
The site is situated in a wonderful location, especially for walking, if you walk out of the gate at the top of the site, this will lead you down to Corfe Castle. The Purbeck Way runs close to the site as well.
We took the bus into Swanage from Corfe Castle, it runs every hour during the week, but we found it quite expensive, £14 for an explorer ticket for the two of us.
There are four pubs in Corfe Castle, The Greyhound, The Fox, The Castle and the Bankes Arms Hotel. If you like Real Ale like me try the Greyhound or The Fox (I didn’t get to the Bankes Arms Hotel) but it was £3 a pint in the Greyhound and £2-50 in the Fox and it was served straight from the cask in the Fox, both pubs allowed dogs.
We will definitely be going back to this site, but probably not in high season because I don’t think the loo’s are big enough.
A very pleasant and quiet site, run by a helpful young couple. There are problems, but if you are prepared for them they are surmountable.
Problem 1 you will need loads of chocks, and perhaps even crampons, as every pitch slopes.
Problem 2 the approach is by a single lane which is flanked by hedges. We met a caravan half way up it and a bit of a problem.(Must go on a course on how to back with trailer!)
Lashings of hot water and very clean showers etc, although perhaps too few if the site becomes crowded.
We certainly will go there again, perhaps off season.
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Tent Pitches 
Caravan Pitches 
Motorhome Pitches 
Small Campervans 
No Glamping Units 
No Statics for Hire 
No Statics for Sale 
No Seasonal Pitches 
Electric Hookups 
Hardstanding Pitches 
No Fully Serviced Pitches 
Families Welcome 
Not Members Only 
No Rallies 
Not Naturist Site 
Dogs Welcome 
No Dogs Allowed 
Groups Welcome 
Motorbikers Welcome 
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 
No Wifi Access 
Shop On Site 
Bar <1 mile 
Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway <1 mile 
Kids Playground 
No TV Room 
No Games Room 
No Evening Ents 
Fishing <5 miles 
Wild Swimming <5 miles 
Indoor Pool <5 miles 
No Outdoor Pool 
Horse Riding <5 miles 
Cycle Hire <5 miles 
Golf <5 miles 
Tennis <5 miles 
Beach <5 miles 
Watersports <5 miles 
Boat Launch / Mooring <5 miles 
No Sea Views 
Not Working Farm 
No Campfires Allowed 
No Waterside Pitches 
Public Transport <1 mile
Offroad Dog Walk On Site or Direct Access 
Just got back from yet another enjoyable stay at this site. This year the already great site (love those showers!) has had a few more improvements (new water stand-pipe areas & some resurfacing).
