Rated 4 of 5

Rated 4 of 5

Peace and quiet

Rated 5 of 5

Facilities and cleanliness

Rated 5 of 5

Location

Rated 4 of 5

Good for families

Lovely site, nice dog walk next door, not totally peaceful at weekends

A lovely site, small and quiet, no children's play area so suits old geezers like us who want to leave noisy children behind (whatever happened to "seen but not heard"?). Close to major roads for access to London, but you hear no traffic noise at all. The site management are very helpful and the facilities are well maintained and clean. All as you would hope to find on a club site. The woodland nature reserve just to the south of the site is a lovely dog walk, and there are cafes and so on nearby. Aircraft noise......is restricted to daylight hours, but the site is no more than 200 metres from the flight path for small aircraft landing. It is clearly an enthusiastic club, on the first weekend in January at least 30-40 planes landed, coming in at about 100 feet above the fields next to the woods next door. Not in itself an issue, and quite fun watching them. It is only small single engined aircraft, not noisy, but if you wanted total peace and quiet it won't be for you. However, the helicopters are quite another matter. For some reason they seem to take off from the corner of the airfield right by the site, and seem to feel the need to run their engines for a number of minutes first. And those engines are about three times as noisy as the planes. So, in summary, if you are planning on being out all day doing stuff, it's no problem, but in mid-summer they may well be flying all evening too, so it you are planning on staying on site your peace will be somewhat disturbed. One other thing to bear in mind - you MUST approach the site from the south, from junction 16 of the M25, ie the M40. The approach from the north, your sat nav makes you take Tilehouse Lane, which is potholed, rutted and about a foot wider than your caravan - wing and a prayer time if you meet another caravan tower coming the other way.
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