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Scar Close Certificated Location
Hudswell
Richmond
North Yorkshire (Browse area)
DL11 6BQ
Tel: 01748 823287
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Pitches: 5 CAMC Members Only
Open: 01/02/2026 to 30/11/2026
01/02/2027 to 30/11/2027
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 No Tents |
 Caravan Pitches |
 Motorhome Pitches |
 Small Campervans |
 No Glamping Units |
 No Statics for Hire |
 No Statics for Sale |
 No Seasonal Pitches |
 Electric Hookups |
 No Hardstandings |
 No Fully Serviced Pitches |
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| Who's it for |
 Families Welcome |
 Club Members Only |
 No Rallies |
 Not Naturist Site |
 Dogs Welcome |
 No Dogs Allowed |
 Groups Welcome |
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| Facilities |
 Toilet Facilities |
 No Showers |
 No Washing Up Area |
 No Bathroom |
 No Baby Changing |
 No Laundry |
 Drinking Water |
 Disabled Friendly |
 Chemical Disposal |
 No Battery Charging |
 No Gas Exchange |
 No Recycling Facilities |
 No Kitchen Facilities |
 No Freezer / Fridge |
 No Motorhome Point |
 No Wifi Access |
 Shop <5 miles |
 Bar <1 mile |
 Restaurant or Cafe or Takeaway <5 miles |
| Activities |
 No Playground |
 No TV Room |
 No Games Room |
 No Evening Ents |
 Fishing <5 miles |
 No Wild Swimming |
 No Indoor Pool |
 No Outdoor Pool |
 No Horse Riding |
 No Cycle Hire |
 No Golf |
 No Tennis |
 No Beach |
 Watersports <10 miles |
 No Boat Launch |
| 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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This is a Caravan and Motorhome Club Certificated Location, which accepts just five caravans or motorhomes and is for Club Members only. |
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| Date of Visit: August 2025 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Nights stayed: 3 |
Travelling as: Mature couple |
| Reviewer: BivvyBoy |
42 reviews from this member |
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 It's always interesting to read other reviews: there's a recent one on Google maps complaining about no washing up sinks, only one toilet, and overpriced as they didn't make use of the EHU. This is a CAMC certified location, and is exactly as described on their website - WC and basin for campers, EHU, and water. That's your lot. It also gets 5 star reviews without exception on the CAMC site, and rightly so.
OK, so main selling points are that this site is in a beautiful location in Swaledale. You are next to woodland by the river, with lovely footpaths that will take you through the woods then along the banks of the Swale into Richmond. Or it's a 10 minute drive if you're not so mobile. There is a gate in the corner of the camping field that goes straight onto the public footpath.
Richmond - beautiful market town with an outstanding castle, and a LIDL if you need anything.
The local village, Hudswell, has a great pub that does food at certain times and great drinks - even if you don't drink, please pop in for a glass of lemonade and support this community pub. There is a small village shop with limited opening times as well.
The hosts are courteous and friendly, lovely people, and they keep the place spick and span.
So onto the reason we will definitely be back - the actual camping field itself. Three grass pitches and two hardstanding, but they are miles apart - CAMC or C&CC would have squeezed at least three more pitches in. The six metre rules never comes into it, I reckon we were more like 15 metres from our neighbours. As we chose a grass pitch, we had our own bollard and water tap (hardstanding you have to share). The owners ask that you don't hook up a hosepipe to the tap (I assume this is for the hardstanding where you have to share a tap, so monopolising the tap would be unfair) but I sneakily filled our water barrel with a hosepipe, then put the hosepipe away just in case I was breaking this rule.
Dog friendly - very. You can be onto the footpaths in 30 seconds, and away you go. The camping field is crawling with rabbits, so depending on your dog, you may wish to use a lead especially once it's going dark.
NB - 5G gave me download speeds of over 50Mbps, the palce is well connected.
£24 a night is a steal. It's a quiet, beautiful site, and I hope we will return many more times. Thank you for having us. 
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| Date of Visit: November 2024 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
Travelling as: Family with young children |
| Reviewer: Brendanr2004 |
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This is a lovely, small site in the village of Hudswell. It’s a 30 minute walk through woodland to the town of Richmond and is well located for trips in Swaledale.
Excellent community pub a 10 minute walk, serving good food a real ales.
Site has basic facilities - just waste and water - but is kept in immaculate condition.
Warm and friendly welcome from the owners who go out of their way to help and make you have a good stay.
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| Date of Visit: July 2022 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
Travelling as: Retired couple |
| Reviewer: Seashell2 |
6 reviews from this member |
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Friendly welcome and a lovely, quiet, spacious, well-kept site, an ideal CL in beautiful rolling countryside. It is no longer a working farm.
There is water, EH and one clean flush toilet in a portacabin. It was the hottest day of the year and there was no shade; we walked down through the beautiful National Trust woods and sat in the river to cool off.
It's a very steep path but well worth the walk. Sadly, the local pub had closed so we cycled a couple of miles towards Richmond to another pub, which wasn't serving food.
It's possible to walk to Richmond but quite a long walk so the lack of amenities in the village wouldn't suit those who don't want to drive away.
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Date of Visit: April 2022  |
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| Nights stayed: 2 |
Travelling as: Family with older children |
| Reviewer: Simongtanner |
5 reviews from this member |
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Pristine site with well spaced plots
Convenient for centre of Richmond with picturesque 1. 5 mile walk along river Bank.
Local Bus service from village to Richmond and surrounding towns.
Very peaceful location.
Great village Pub only 500m along the road, serving a selection of real ales and good quality food
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| Date of Visit: September 2019 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Nights stayed: 4 |
Travelling as: Retired couple |
| Reviewer: Fairliered |
8 reviews from this member |
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This is a very spacious CL with well maintained grass pitches. We had EHU and a tap at our pitch.
There is a small toilet, which we can’t comment on, as we use our own facilities.
A gate at the bottom of the site leads directly to National Trust woodland, which is great for walks if you don’t suffer from vertigo!
It is a 10 minute walk to an award winning, community owned, dog friendly village pub.
Mrs Porter will send you detailed directions to the site, avoiding the worst of the steep hills and narrow lanes.
Leyburn is worth visiting, especially on market day.
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| Date of Visit: August 2018 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Denisea |
14 reviews from this member |
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Excellent site in a great location. Very quiet and peaceful. The owners are very friendly.
We stayed to attend the open day at Culloden Tower which was amazing.
Afterwards we returned to the site and enjoyed a walk in the National Trust Woodlands.
We saw red squirrel and lots of rabbits.
The views are amazing and we would have loved to have stayed longer but had to return to work.
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| Date of Visit: May 2016 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Reviewer: Pacesetters |
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We used this charming little site for an overnight stop while visiting friends in Richmond.
Don't expect any frills but there is a nice flat grassy pitch, tap, hook--up and loo.
Walk straight out of the field and you are practically next to the river Swale and the lovely market town of Richmond is close by.
Owner Mrs Porter gave us a warm welcome and a friendly send-off the next morning.
Next time we will stay for longer
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| Date of Visit: August 2014 |
Unit: Motorhome |
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| Reviewer: TracyJen |
13 reviews from this member |
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This is a large nicely kept field with a central road and grass pitches on both sides with electric hook up and water taps.
There is a gravelled car park area that can be parked on if raining, but there are no electric hook ups in this area.
There is a gate at the bottom of the CL which connects with the National Trust woodland area.
A leaflet in the information shed shows walks in the area of varying lengths and degrees of abilities and includes a riverside walk to Richmond.
Once through the woods the scenery is spectacular. There is recycling on site and the toilet is a portaloo within a small shed, which is perfectly adequate.
The grass can be a bit soft when it has rained, even though we used plastic under tyre treads, we still managed to leave a tyre mark, for which I apologise.
We did not visit Hudswell although we would if we stayed for a longer visit.
Mrs Porter was very friendly and helpful, I would recommend this site and would certainly return for hopefully a longer visit.
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| Date of Visit: May 2012 |
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| Reviewer: SwanseaJack1 |
5 reviews from this member |
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Just spent three nights here at this lovely, well located CL.
Lovely views from your van. Lady very welcoming and helpful.
Hook ups and drinking water taps no problem. Chemical disposal and a loo thrown in (very clean portaloo type-this is only a CL).
Village pub within walking distance and Richmond only 2 miles away, and the bus will stop right outside the site.
It has been raining constantly for some time and the lady offered me a place on some hardstanding.
Do not normally use CLs but if they were all of this standard I would use them more often.
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| Date of Visit: March 2012 |
Unit: Touring Caravan |
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| Reviewer: Daleswalker |
9 reviews from this member |
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Just got back from an extended weekend stay at Scar Close, this wonderful site is a definite for a return visit.
A warm yet unintrusive welcome from the owner preceded a thoroughly lovely stay.
The views are breathtaking and the main field opens straight out to a public footpath through Calf Hill woods and on to Round Howe.
There is a lovely pub just down the road (a fair walk but an easy drive). The site is kept immaculately but it is a CL so don't expect toilet blocks etc.
There are recycling facilities on site which is unusual for a CL, the main field is generously sized for a maximum of 5 vans so plenty of room to spread out!
To top it all off we got perfect reception on all TV channels (digital).
A great site for a quiet stay but with the lively town of Richmond just a stone's throw away.
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