Uttoxeter Racecourse

Sorry, I should have said a sad day when the club severed all connection with the site and relinquish its running of it. I think our nearest club site would now be Sutton on Sea. We have a distinct lack of club sites in north and mid Lincolnshire, it’s a big county, second only to Yorkshire I think. Having said that we do have some fabulous CLs.

Those members of a certain vintage will remember using lots of racecourse sites in the past. I can think of Wincanton, Newcastle upon Tyne, Hexham, Weatherby, Brighton, Folkestone, and there may be more? As I mentioned up thread we don't know what goes on in discussions between the Club and the Racecourses. I know in a couple of cases the racecourses pulled out of having campsites to concentrate on other options. In other cases they have carried on as independent campsites. As I have mentioned in the past any site held on a lease of management contract are vulnerable to loss from the network and I suspect we will loose more sites as the years go by. As to areas of the Country being under presented by the Club there are several, Essex being one and the North Bucks/Beds/Northampton is another are without much representation.

David

Hereford reacecouse was another lost one. The Club used to have a site near Newport Pagnell, somewhere just off the A509. Last time I passed by there the area was being turned into a housing estate.

peedee

Interestingly the market rasen site is a Listed Site on the CCC web site. 

Lovat Meadow, about two miles from where I live. We stayed there once when we got a new van to test it out. Trouble was it was a bit muddy and Simon decided to help by giving me a push and promptly got covered from head to toe in mud Lucky we were so close to home!

David

Hexham Racecourse has a lovely independent site nowadays. We stayed a few years ago, during COVID and really enjoyed it. Couldn’t use the (brand new) facility block, as things were still shut up and restricted, but everything was well organised and spectacular views. Mainly grass pitches, but there were some huge MHs on there, and the one thing racecourses do know about is maintaining good ground conditions.

We really miss Wincanton Racecourse, sadly nothing replaced the Club Site when this finished. It was a great location, good views, close to places of interest, Wincanton town we enjoyed, good dog walking, and some good events on at the Racecourse itself. I used to go to a big annual craft fair there each year, on our way down to Cornwall.

We stayed at Wetherby, Market Rasen campsites (Trax) before we were married, nearly 40 years ago.

We celebrated our Silver Wedding at Bangor-on-Dee racecourse in 1995. I think it was run by CCC. 

We had a tiny little camper van and toured Northumberland as part of our honeymoon, mid 1980’s. Hexham Racecourse was our first and last stop in Northumberland, as we wanted to see Hadrian’s Wall as well as the beautiful coast😁

You're certainly right about racecourses and ground conditions Ttda. I thought I knew about grass until my time at Exeter Racecourse (fond memories of working there and all the invasions. Not). I learned an awful lot from the head groundsman there and apart from Godrevy Park my grass pitches have always survived the season well.

JK