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SLINFOLD

18 Sunday Sep 2011

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This weekend I was lucky enough to be invited to the 40th Anniversary of one of The Caravan Club’s most unusual sites.

Slinfold in West Sussex is home to a small two acre thirty nine pitch site which is run solely by volunteers. It is rightly described as “a gem of a site” and is located at the end of a country lane on the edge of this very pretty village. The volunteers keep the site open from the end of March to the end of October and, as you would expect, they also keep it in immaculate condition. It is a former railways siding and is hugely popular – and no wonder!! (No toilet block, poor TV reception and a maximum outfit length of 8m are minor details as far as the fans of Slinfold are concerned – and this was not my first visit to the site so I count myself as one of them.)

Christopher Macgowan
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ROOKESBURY PARK

18 Sunday Sep 2011

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The Caravan Club’s Rookesbury Park site near Fareham in Hampshire is a gem.

I stayed there this week and it must have one of the most welcoming approaches on the network because as you top the rise at the entrance you see the whole site set out before you in wonderful parkland on the floor of the valley. The former royal Forest of Bere is the setting and it is really handy for Portsmouth and Southampton and indeed has a special area for ferry users arriving out of hours.

It is one of the many sites where you need to follow the directions in the Club’s handbook with scrupulous accuracy. I guess occasionally we all think we know best – but this is not the site to practice your Macho Instinctive Navigation as, be assured, it will end in tears!!

Christopher Macgowan
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