We stayed here in our motor home on our drive south from a holiday in Scotland. Great camp site on the location of an old stately home, Englethwaite Hall, now demolished. Lots of trees and adjacent woodland. No ablution facilities. The people at reception were wonderfully helpful. Ours was pitch number 60, the sunniest pitch on the camp site we were told (although the weather forecast was not good), it was what reception called a “serviced” pitch which essentially means that it has its own water tap and grey water drain, really designed for caravans but we found it useful to have these connections to our motor home. Went for a walk in the woods once we had sorted our selves out, the entrance to the woods is behind Pitch 9, far side of the site from Pitch 60. Afterwards we sat around under the awning eating and drinking. More rain during the night but, next day, decided to go for a walk up the Eden valley despite the threatening weather. There is a footpath marked on the OS map. We set off at 11:00. Various possibilities but we turned right out of the campsite along the road till we got to Froddle Crook where we turned left and followed a path steep down to the river. This is an official foot path, but much of it is overgrown and thus hard going, often pushing through undergrowth (I was wearing shorts and there were a lot of nettles). At one point we had to crawl under a fallen tree. Not a walk to do with small children, too many prickly things. We intended to walk all the way up to the priory and pub at Wetheral, but progress was slow; after a couple of hours of slow going it became clear that at the current rate it would take a good five hours to get to Wetheral, so we cut it short and “bailed out” at Coathouse Tower and walked back to the camp site by road. This was a nice walk with great views of the river, shame that the path is in such poor condition. Sunshine in afternoon, sat around in the sun reading books. Then at 18:00 decided to walk through the woods to Coathill for a pub dinner in the Greyhound. Takes about 30 minutes. Nice church in the village with unusual bell tower. Great pub serving great pub food, nice beer as well. Played pool when we had finished eating. Walked back through the woods before it got dark. Sunday a cloudy but dry start to the day. Packed up and set off for Carlisle via Wetheral where we had tried to get to the day before. When we got to Wetheral, few minutes drive from the camp site, they were having some king of Apollo moon landing 50th anniversary celebration with a talk by the vicar! We gave the talk a miss and had a interesting walk round the priory instead. Then onto Carlisle, only short drive. First car Park we aimed for in Carlisle would not allow camper vans, so went to another beneath the castle walls; need to put “Devonshire Walk” into the sat nav. Great weekend in a great camp site.