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  Giants Head Caravan & Camping Park

  Old Sherborne Road, Dorchester, Dorset

  A peaceful, rural park with exceptional views of Dorset Downs and Blackmore Vale. We are situated near the ancient village of Cerne Abbas.

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  Sunnycott Caravan Park

  Rew Street Gurnard, Cowes, Isle of Wight

  A small family run business with 20 well equiped caravans in a lovely rural setting yet only 3 miles from Cowes. pets welcome.

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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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  White Cat Caravan and Camping Park

  Shaw Lane, Boston, Lincolnshire

  The White Cat Caravan Park is a friendly, spacious caravan park. It is situated 8 miles from Boston in the rural landscape of Lincolnshire.

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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.

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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.