Good location
Wood Farm is a quite large mixed holiday site with chalets, tent camping facilities, caravans and motorhomes. It has an indoor pool, cafe/bar, games room and info centre with books and magazines on exchange or borrow. There's also a small play area with swing/slide/climbing stuff.
Due to the nature of the countryside this is sloping site. The reception point really has only got room for one van / car+van so at peak times you may need to queue up in the long (dead end) slip road that goes past the site entry. This is not on the main road itself so not a problem. The staff at the site are all very helpful and a good source of local information. After checkin you're invited to turn into the MH service point and fill up with water. This gave us the opportunity to test out flow rate into jerry can and Whale pump rate out - actually very good!!! You park over a very long grill for grey waste at the same time - big plus point there, no fiddly manhole covers!!!
Did I say the site is on a slope? Once watered you're escorted to your pitch by one of the staff on an electric quad bike - got to get one of those - big boy's toys! The standard pitches - hard standing with EHU are concrete and level, but not very generous in width so you are on grass when you step out of the door, OK in the dry, muddy when wet. The better pitches are fully serviced EHU, water, grey and are wider and gravelled. The sloping site means pitches are terraced all over the place which makes for a nice appearance and views. I saw some longer M/Hs struggling to get wheels onto the gravel before the back end hit the bank up to the next terrace. If in doubt ask when booking.
This site does slope - did I mention that? So, bikes, skateboards etc and not permitted, and I can quite see why.
There are toilet/shower/washup/black waste blocks dotted around. These also have vegetable wash and prep areas which is really good. Numerous fresh/grey water points. The washroom facilities are a little unusual. They consist of a small number of individual bathrooms, each with a basin, toilet and shower plus shaver point and wired in hair drier. There are no soap dispensers in the toilets which I consider to be a bad move. After use you have to go round to the end of the block to a single washbasin with soap and hand drier – often ignored!
A sign at the entrance points out that this is a countryside site. Rabbits - oh yes there's lots of rabbits. Still, I was pleased when opened the door around 10.30 at night and saw a hedgehog bumbling around.
There are buses along to Dorchester, Bridport etc one way or as far as Exeter the other. We had planned on walking down into Lyme Regis and getting the bus back, but some bus services were off, so it was a very steep walk back up the hill!! It's probably no more than 2.5 miles but it's a long long climb.....I think we'll go back again for a longer visit simply because it is a good location for exploring.
rambling robin
Reviewed on 13/10/2015 13:34
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