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  Franchis Holiday Park

  Cury Cross Lanes, Helston, Cornwall

  70 gently sloping grass pitches, half with access to electric hook up. Chalets and static caravans available to hire.

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  Camping Caradon Touring Park

  Between Looe & Polperro, Looe, Cornwall

  Our family frindly Touring Park is located half way between Looe & Polperro, close to the South Cornish coast at Talland Bay.

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  Hurley Riverside Park

  Hurley, Maidenhead, Berkshire

  Family-run Park situated alongside the River Thames in the picturesque village of Hurley. Ideal for visiting Legoland, Henley & Oxford.

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  Quiet Waters Caravan Park

  Hemingford Abbots, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

  Quiet riverside family owned park, offering luxury static holiday homes, and touring / camping pitches. 4 star.

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  The Garden Caravan Site

  Barmer Hall Farm, King's Lynn, Norfolk

  A lovely secluded site in a walled garden with pleasant walks, close to the picturesque North Norfolk Coast, and Sandringham, with beautiful beaches, golf…

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  Is-Helen Farm Caravan Park & Self Catering

  Caravan Park & Self Catering, Caernarfon, Gwynedd

  Self catering cottage - tastfully converted barn, touring pitches. 3min to the waters edge, and a flat 15min walk to historic castle town of Caernarfon.

Camping and caravanning has always been a favourite leisure activity in the UK. There are literally thousands of campsite and caravan parks in the UK from as little as £6 a night for a tent pitch.

Years ago people would set off for a camping weekend and pitch their tent at whatever seemingly appropriate place they found. Nowadays, people who go on a camping holiday tend to stay at one of a growing number of camp sites, most of which have toilet and shower facilities – some of which are very nice indeed. There is still the odd farmer who will let out a fallow field to campers, but generally speaking there will be no facilities for the campers to use.

Today’s tents are much bigger; some of them holding up to six people, and the expectation from campers is much greater. Most campers no longer cook on an open fire as they take a portable grill or barbecue with them.

Another British favourite type of holiday accommodation is the caravan. From the nineteen fifties through to the nineteen seventies, there was a proliferation of caravan parks across the UK. Many of the better parks had washing and toilet facilities, a club room for kids and one for the adults with evening entertainment, almost every caravan park also had its own shop.

In the early days caravans were extremely cramped and daytime seating arrangements turned into sleeping quarters at night. Most modern static caravan parks now have two and three bedroom caravans complete with their own toilet and shower facilities.

You will find caravan parks in every UK holiday destination such as Cornwall, Bournemouth and Skegness, as they are again, growing in popularity.