An ideal location
When you arrive, beware, don’t turn into the first wide entrance that you come to on your right, even though our Caravan Club satnav instructed us to do just that! Drive 50 – 60 yards further on, you come to a 5 bar metal gate in a much smaller entranceway on your right, displaying the club sign to the Caravan and Motorhome site!
The site has quite a significant drop running its full length & is fairly flat but not level. When set up, the low end of the caravan is quite a difference in height than the other end, although it caused us no problems.
Eileen & John who own the farm are very friendly and welcoming and couldn’t be more helpful.
The location of the site is lovely, we pitched our unit, adjacent to the road and yes, you can obviously hear vehicles passing by but 2 or 3 an hour, which rises to 5 or 6 in the rush hour!!! Most of the “noise” came from the adjacent fields which had large numbers of newborn lambs bleating and gambolling around! Bucolic is a word that springs to mind!
We couldn’t get a television signal, which doesn’t bother us, a radio signal was fine.
If you don’t have a 4x4 vehicle, you can exit with your unit at the bottom end of the site. Failing that, John is only too helpful in assisting with his Land Rover, should you require help!
There are dozens of walks in this beautiful area, many can be accessed close to the site. There is a Co-op supermarket, cafés, delicatessen, restaurants, tea-room, take-aways and pubs in Coleford. One good find was an Italian restaurant called Amici. It’s on the Chepstow road, about 75 yards past the main crossroads with traffic lights, in Coleford.
For good honest pub food, we found The Angel Hotel in Coleford’s Market Place (the irregular shaped roundabout with a church on it) was most value for money. For two of us a 2 course meal, tea, coffee and 3 drinks was under £35.00!!! A pensioner’s light lunch will set you back all of £5.00!!! Very good value for money.
In the opposite direction is The Ostrich pub in Newland, again about 20 minutes walk from the CL, along footpaths or follow the Burial Lane, which leads straight to the pub.
The Ostrich offers al a carte food but as one would expect, much more expensive. I think it relies on tourism more than locals, as generally, this is a low income area. We did eat at The Ostrich on one occasion but their prices are a third more expensive than elsewhere, on the lunchtime that we visited, soup on the menu was £8, which is a bit over the top, especially for this area!
After previously spending a long 7 – 8 weeks of hard graft at home, we were exhausted and needed to get away, so we booked this site for 2 weeks of R & R in order to unwind. This fulfilled all our requirements, with ticks in all the boxes for; tranquility, peaceful, scenic, quiet and restful. Thank you Eileen and John for a delightful stay, even though it rained for a whole week! We shall return. Ray & Maggie Hutton
Rayjman
Reviewed on 18/06/2019 12:35
