Top 10 Camping and Caravanning Club Sites 2012
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The Camping and Caravanning Club is the oldest camping organisation in the world.
With almost 500,000 members, and hundreds of wardens and volunteers, The Camping and Caravanning Club manages more than 100 main sites and 1,400 smaller ones, known as Certificated Sites (CSs).
Like its main rival the Caravan Club, The Camping and Caravanning Club has hundreds of pitches beside beaches, rivers, lakes, fish ponds and canals. There are also 20 sites in Forestry Commission woodland – five of them I’ve listed here.
What I consider to be the club’s 15+ best full service pitches are here. I’ve also visited many of the privately owned CSs. A list of 95 waterside CS camps I like is here and my Top 10 is here. Please let me know if you have a favourite of your own. Visit the Club website if your want to join.
My Top 10 Camping and Caravanning Club favourites for 2012 features an unusual geographic mix – three from Scotland and three from Surrey. Here they are (not including CSs):
1) Loch Lomond, Cashel Caravan Park and Campsite, Rowardennan
By mike138
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It’s possible here to launch a small boat, to explore one of Scotland’s most beautiful lochs, from waterside pitches. more info
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2) Loch Long , Ardgarton Camping and Caravanning Club Site, Arrochar, Dunbartonshire
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CHOICE: Fish or canoe (by mike138)
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Catch sea trout or take to your kayaks directly from the camp. more info
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3) Folkestone Camping and Caravanning Club, The Warren, Kent
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CHANNEL: A cliff-top site (by Between a Rock)
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A cliff-top site that’s the perfect stop over en route to the either the Channel Tunnel or ferries, and mainland Europe. more info
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4) River Ure, Boroughbridge Camping and Caravanning Club Site, Roecliffe, North Yorkshire
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By Sheffield Tiger
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Fish for roach, perch, dace, pike, chub, trout and grayling from this riverside site. more info
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5) Derwentwater, Keswick Camping and Caravanning Site, Crow Park Road, Cumbria
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CUMBRIA: Camp by the water in the Lake District (by BinaryApe)
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Pitch beside Derwentwater, within a short walk away of the town centre. more info
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6) Loch Greshornish, Skye Camping and Caravanning Site, Portree, Isle Of Skye
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By HBarrison
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A working croft on the shore of Loch Greshornish. more info
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7) The Great Ouse, St Neots Camping and Caravanning Club, Eynesbury, Cambridgeshire
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By jon smith 'una nos lucror'
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On the banks of the Great Ouse. The town of St Neots is less than two miles away. more info
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River Thames, Walton on Thames Camping and Caravanning Club Site, Fieldcommon Lane, Surrey
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by Maxwell Hamilton
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Fifteen minutes from London, on the banks of the Thames. more info
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9) Horsley Lake, Horsley Camping and Caravanning Club Site, Ockham Road, Surrey
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By Dimitry B
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Lakeside on the edge of the North Downs, with fishing available. more info
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10) River Thames, Chertsey Camping and Caravanning Club Site, Surrey
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Launch canoes and boats next to the Thames Path National Trail. more info
