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Castle Howard Lakeside Holiday Park
Coneysthorpe
York
North Yorkshire (Browse area)
YO60 7DD
Tel: 01653 648316
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Pitches: 160
Open: 01/01/2026 to 31/12/2026
01/01/2027 to 31/12/2027
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 Tent Pitches |
 Caravan Pitches |
 Motorhome Pitches |
 Small Campervans |
 No Glamping Units |
 No Statics for Hire |
 Holiday Homes for Sale |
 No Seasonal Pitches |
 Electric Hookups |
 Hardstanding Pitches |
 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 |
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| Facilities |
 Toilet Facilities |
 Hot Showers |
 Washing Up |
 No Bathroom |
 No Baby Changing |
 Laundry On Site |
 Drinking Water |
 Disabled Friendly |
 Chemical Disposal |
 No Battery Charging |
 No Gas Exchange |
 Recycling Facilities |
 No Kitchen Facilities |
 Freezer / Fridge |
 Motorhome Point |
 No Wifi Access |
 Shop On Site |
 Bar <1 mile |
 Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway <1 mile |
| Activities |
 No Playground |
 No TV Room |
 No Games Room |
 No Evening Ents |
 Fishing On Site |
 No Wild Swimming |
 No Indoor Pool |
 No Outdoor Pool |
 No Horse Riding |
 Cycle Hire <5 miles |
 No Golf |
 No Tennis |
 No Beach |
 No Watersports |
 No Boat Launch |
| Other Features |
 No Sea Views |
 Not Working Farm |
 No Campfires Allowed |
 Open All Year |
 No Waterside Pitches |
 Public Transport <1 mile |
 Offroad Dog Walk On Site or Direct Access |
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| Date of Visit: July 2026 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: Daveyjp |
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 Ever since our once favourite site near the east coast decided £35-40 a night was acceptable for a tent pitch we have been looking for a site within 90 minutes of home. We just need somewhere to 'escape' to for a couple of nights when the weather is favourable.
A few weeks ago we were in the area and drove past the site so made a note. With fine weather forecast and a new tent to try out we booked two nights and have just returned.
Booking nice and easy, all online, no silly '3 nights minimum at weekends' rule (which is creeping in). £26 a night for none EHU in the camping field.
Arrival and check in straightforwards. Pitch where you want away from the few EHU pitches. Found a pitch and within an hour we were set up. Site is a mix of mobile home park, hard standings with EHU and the tent field with a few EHU pitches. Adjacent to the huge lake with views of the main house. Birdwatchers paradise. 50+ species seen over the last few weeks.
As mentioned shower block is compact, but no issues with it being busy, even though the tent field was very busy - 30-35 pitched on Saturday night.
Small shop on site, but for a wider selection of food castle Howard house has a high end food shop, butchery, grocers, etc. Malton is about 5 miles and has a couple, of supermarkets and lots of independent food shops. Pickering is about 12 miles. The only possible downside is there is nothing nearby so you do need to drive.
For us the site ticked the boxes and somewhere we will be back to. With retirement looming its the sort of place which would be great to use. An older couple adjacent had been on site two weeks and mid week was very quiet.
The only downer was the receptionist who really should consider whether a customer service role is her calling. 
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| Date of Visit: April 2026 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: LindyBob66 |
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Had a fabulous stay here, site is very well laid out, each hard standing having a good amount of room.
Showers and toilets are excellent, very clean. The pot washing area is like a sauna which was nice! There is a washing machine and dryer if needed.
Nice walk up to castle Howard, farm shop had lots of nice goodies to buy.
The fish and chip van called during our stay which was handy.
We will return!
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| Date of Visit: March 2026 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
Travelling as: Retired couple |
| Reviewer: Varonda |
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Overall an excellent site, clean and tidy with spotless shower and toilet facilities, friendly helpful
Staff and about a half hour walk to the house and gardens.
The only thing I'd have to knock a few marks off for are the rather pokey showers and toilets whilst clean they weren't designed for normal sized folks or for those of us getting on a bit in years [ no benches or support rails ].
Would we visit again ? of course now we know what we have to deal with, the other bits - on some pitches you may need ramps and also take some ear plugs cos the crow squawking can get a bit monotonous !
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| Date of Visit: August 2023 |
Unit: Tent |
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| Nights stayed: 4 |
Travelling as: With friends |
| Reviewer: SimSel |
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Loved the site itself, the fish and chip van on Friday night was good but only there from 6 till 630, the morning breakfast van was a godsend,
Toilets were very clean but the cubicles are very very small, as are the showers,
Bit of advice though if you think you're going to spend a few days fishing on their absolutely massive lake, think again, the fee is £7:50 for the duration of your stay (brilliant).
There are only 2 single swims ! And anyone who owns a holiday has priority on these, so if 3 of you want to go fishing, you're out of luck, other than this is was lovely and quiet and there are loads to places to fish in the local area,
We will return and I would recommend this site if you wanted to use it as a base camp to go out exploring the local area.
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| Date of Visit: July 2023 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Nights stayed: 4 |
Travelling as: Family with young children |
| Reviewer: Cristo |
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Lovely site in terms of greenery and scenery. Loved the leafy surroundings and trees. Well maintained pitches but, as previously noted, far from flat.
Walk by lake sounded attractive but is quite narrow near the site, still pretty.
Facilities average although the site is attractive overall. Showers were cold by 11am.
Let down by VERY noisy group of campers in the field next to our caravan. Two nights in a row loud talking, drinking and swearing and music till 11:45-12:00 evening. Hard for my family to sleep. Really disappointed that this is allowed. Made it known to the management. Not peaceful / serene / upmarket as the castle Howard name / brand suggests.
Had a much more pleasant, quiet and family friendly atmosphere at other sites in York area. Stand out bonus is the 2 4 1 tickets for castle Howard. Overall a nice place but completely disappointed with the standards of noise.
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Date of Visit: May 2023  |
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| Nights stayed: 7 |
Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: Melton |
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The staff were friendly and helpful
There could be updates on the toilet and showers especially the disabled toilets
Bank holiday weekend there was not enough toilets or showers
There is no dog bins on site
Site is clean and tidy
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| Date of Visit: May 2023 |
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| Nights stayed: 7 |
Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: Mdale1 |
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Site is a perfect location,
The fishing lake though is very poor lots of large weeds around it so difficult to fish and not much fish caught so don’t bother taking fishing gear.
Walks are fabulous.
Sites disabled toilet needs TLC.
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| Date of Visit: December 2022 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Nights stayed: 3 |
Travelling as: Young couple |
| Reviewer: Gemma-lu |
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We booked the campsite as we had booked tickets for the castle Howard Christmas event and wanted to be close by. We arrived later than planned but had rung ahead to to warn the site. The warden we spoke to was helpful, said that it wouldn’t be an problem for us to arrive late, and that they would leave details of our pitch in the window of reception as it would be closed by the time we arrived.
When we got there, we followed the instructions to our pitch and set up in the dark. We were lucky that our small van didn’t need any levelling, but some pitches clearly needed levelling blocks.
We explored the facilities block and found the water tap at the back of the block, along with the covered over Elsan point (they were a good three meters apart). There was an indoor washing up/laundry room at the front and then male/female toilets and showers Which we found to be very warm and clean each time we used them.
There is a motorhome service point which you need to pull in tightly to use as this is next to the main entrance/exit for the touring site, so sometimes there can be a bit of negotiating to get in or out of you are going at peak arrival or leaving times and a big motorhome is using it (or you are the big motorhome). Everyone was patient and helpful when this happened though.
When we woke up in the morning and opened the blinds we realised that we were pitched right next to a beautiful lake, which we hadn’t realised in the dark. We got regular visits from the ducks which was cute. The lake had a single track alongside of it which was perfect for walking our three small dogs (many people walked their dogs along the lake and were not stopped by staff, as mentioned in a previous review). My only gripe was that there wasn’t a path from the main road of the campsite to the gate leading to the lake, and so people walked along the edge of our pitch and the back of our van to get to it, but in the summer I’m sure they’d have walked across the grass a bit further away.
There is no wifi and very poor phone signal which we weren’t aware of and we had planned to work from our van on one of our days, so our plans were scuppered a bit. On the other hand, this meant that we had a quiet weekend and got to switch off a bit, which was nice.
We went to the Crown and Cushion in Welburn for some lunch and they had a nice selection of ales on. There isn’t anything within walking distance apart from castle Howard itself which is around 25 mins walk apparently, but we just went in the car.
If you speak to reception they can give you a 2 for 1 voucher on entrance into castle Howard outside of the Christmas Event.
We would go back, hopefully in the summer, so that we have more daylight to explore local walks etc. It is a nice little site, even in winter.
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| Date of Visit: June 2022 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
Travelling as: With friends |
| Reviewer: Yvonne |
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The site and facilities were great
However, the site managers let themselves down by their inflexibility. When we booked we asked to be put next to our friends but this did not happen. We asked if we could swap our pitch so that we could be near friends but were literally told “sorry, computer says no”. We were only there for 2 nights and the whole time we were there the pitch we asked to move to remained empty.
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| Date of Visit: August 2021 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Nights stayed: 4 |
Travelling as: Family with older children |
| Reviewer: Niccyb |
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Stayed on hardstanding pitches.
Apart from its proximity to castle Howard, there is little to recommend this site.
1 - The reception staff seem to be perpetually indifferent and unfriendly
2 - The hardstanding pitches weren't landscaped with caravanners in mind (they are sloping side to side requiring more than a few levelling blocks)
3 - The stream running beside the pitches means there are a large number of buzzy and bitey flies around
4 - The toilets/showers need better cleaning (and preferably not by somebody filling them with their cigarette smoke while they clean)
Oh, and the fish and chip van sells pretty poor fish and chips.
Will we be back. No. Shame as it has potential.
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