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  BleuSoleil Camping

  La Route de Vinchelez Leoville, St Ouen, Jersey

  We are a family run campsite in the west of Jersey, where all the best beaches are, we are open all year and cater for everyone.

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  Hedley Wood Caravan & Camping Park

  Bridgerule, Holsworthy, Devon

  Hedley Wood is a pet friendly park, offering static caravans, touring & camping pitches. With dog kennelling, we offer the perfect holiday!

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  Rhyd y Galen Caravan and Camping

  Bethel Road, Caernarfon, Gwynedd

  Rhyd y Galen is a quiet and truly beautiful caravan and camping park only 15 minutes from the Snowdon footpath.

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  Callow Top Holiday Park

  Buxton Road, Ashbourne, Derbyshire

  Award winning family holiday park on the edge of the Derbyshire & Staffordshire Peak District. Just 20 mins drive from Alton Towers.

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  Calloose Caravan & Camping Park

  Calloose Lane, Hayle, Cornwall

  Secluded family holiday park close to St Ives in Cornwall UK, set in a sheltered suntrap valley with its own stream.

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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.

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.

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