Ah, what a superb weekend had at Ingon Bank Farm! Great little site, just our cup of tea! The most lovely countryside views on all sides of our caravan and only a 5 minute drive into Stratford. The site has three pitches lower down under a few small trees which are flat but we were really pleased to find our two pitches at the top of the hill of the site, yes on a slope you will need blocks, where we had a huge amount of space and parked our vans end to end with a huge space in between, the views out of every window were lovely, so nice to not be looking at another van, just fields, sheep and scenery! The owner was very helpful and welcoming, we had a T5 van which was struggling to pull the van up the slope to the top of the site, the grass was wet and unfortunately my husband paused when towing and we started slipping and the owner offered to tow us up but we did manage by unhooking and taking it up using the motor mover. We then plugged in and all the electric went off and the owner and another caravan owner were all helping us to try and find out the problem, which in the end was our fridge. Once we knew this we ran it off gas and all electric was working fine but thank you for your help. We booked a secure dog field, in advance which was in the next village of Snittersfield, about 5 minutes in the car, so two of our dogs could have a run off lead, XPC Secure Field, which made the site a fab location for us. At other times I walked the dogs on lead round one of the huge empty sheep fields. It was lovely waking up to the sound of sheep every morning, please bear in mind this is a working farm so there will be animal noise. There is distance road noise, so not silent but the busy road is a massive field away so it is distant, so you are aware of it but I am so sensitive to noise and it did not bother me at all, after all you are minutes from Stratford! The best time was when we were all sat outside the caravans having a bbq and chatting and suddenly in the orchard behind us a badger appeared in daylight and ran across the orchard and down the driveway, we couldn't believe it. Later that evening when we were leaving our friends caravan to go back to ours as one of my dogs started barking and I went to check that all was okay and there were badger cubs playing (although it did sound like they were murdering each other!) but there they were, amazing! All in all we were blessed with the weather, including the most massive thunder and lightening storm one night and will love to go back again! You can't beat the location to Stratford, the pretty well kept site and the sounds of the sheep baa-ing! Thank you, a real gem for us!
