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GB from Devizes
GB from Devizes
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Very Good Site for Camping and Caravans

  • September 17, 2009
  • Rated 5 of 5 by john18 from cirencester, United Kingdom
This is a very nice site and tarifs are very good. The showers are large and clean and pitches are large. you can also store your caravan there. there are 2 nice pubs within easy walking. The one by the site is closed.

The couple running it are also very freindly. well worth a visit

Sue and John Cirencester
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Dolton Camping & Caravan Park

  • May 14, 2007
  • Rated 4 of 5 by GB from Devizes from Devizes, United Kingdom
Dolton Camping & Caravan Park

This gem of a find only came about by accident as I surfed the net looking for details about a beer festival that was due to be held in the village. The caravan and camping site sits behind the Acorn Farmhouse, smack bang in the middle of the village. It occupies a flat, well-tended meadow with plots for around 20 tents, camper vans, and caravans. All plots have electrical hook-ups with several cold-water taps within easy distance.

The end of the meadow has been left as rough pasture where you may exercise your dogs as long as you clean up after them; otherwise, they have to be kept on a lead. Facilities on the site are simple but well-maintained and sufficient for a few night’s stay. The washroom and shower block was just a 20-second stroll across the grass and had free, piping-hot showers as well as clean washbasins and toilets. The adjacent utility room featured a washing machine, tumble dryer, freezer, and sink, as well as a huge selection of leaflets giving ideas for days out.

The owners were very friendly and no sooner had camp been set, then they strolled across with their three enormous dogs to bid “good afternoon”.

The site is surrounded by trees making it very sheltered although this also made it very cold in the mornings with ground frosts and heavy dews. It’s a mere 30-second walk to the nearest pub and a further half- minute to the well-stocked village shop. The site stocks varying sizes of butane and propane refills so you don’t need to worry about running out of gas at that vital moment.

The nightly rates were unbelievably cheap. For two people, two dogs, a car and a tent was £7, this included showers and use of the utilities. An electrical hook-up is charged at an extra £2 per night and the high season rate is still just £9 per night.

Coming back to the tent at night was a delight with hooting owls and barking foxes plus the occasional metallic grating of a pheasant or two, way out in the ripening fields of rapeseed.

The site has it’s own website at www.doltoncaravanpark.com which gives a good overview of the site plan and facilities as well as rates for varying times of the year and special weekly rates which save approximately 20% over the nightly tariffs.

As is the case whenever camping, I soon found myself talking to some of the other campers and comparing notes about which was the best pub and/or restaurant in the village as well as swapping notes on where to go and places to visit. A friendly, small campsite that would be impossible to beat for location and facilities given the very inexpensive prices.

Dolton Caravan Park
Acorn Farmhouse
The Square
Dolton
Winkleigh
Devon
EX19 8QF

Tel. 01805 804536

From journal Under Canvas in North Devon

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