138. Corfe Castle Camping and Caravanning Club Site

This is one of the best sites I’ve been to in a long while. I stayed for three weeks in March 2011 in my motorhome and had a really relaxing time.
It’s a franchise site, owned by Mark and Lisa Dando. They are helpful, friendly people who are working hard to make their site even better.
The site sits on a hillside just outside the village of Corfe Castle and is multi-​level and well landscaped. Unlike many C&CC sites, the hardstandings are genuinely that, not just reinforced grass plots. As a result there’s little mud, which is usually the bane of this club’s sites in wet weather.
Facilities are good, as are cellphone and Internet reception. There’s no wifi. I don’t have a TV, so can’t comment on that. The shop has essentials and you can have newspapers and bread delivered to order.
There’s wildlife everywhere on the site, including a nesting pair of sparrowhawks and badgers that visit at night from a nearby sett. (Don’t leave out any food you’ll want in the morning!) Sika deer call in on occasion.
The setting is lovely and the local walking superb. It’s ideal for dog owners. Corfe Castle village is a short walk away, either by road or, more picturesquely, by the footpath just above the site.
There’s a steam train from Corfe Castle to Swanage at weekends this time of year, more often in season. A return ticket is £9.
The only drawback, and it’s minor, is that the internal roads are surfaced with loose limestone, so you need to wear decent shoes to walk to the showers. There’s little lighting on the site, which you’ll be glad of when you see the night skies.
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