Warwickshire

There’s a beautiful justification to Bosworth being No1 in my alphabetic list of  more than 1,500 campsites on water. Because this is where it all started.

I’d asked the owner back in 2003 whether there were other sites like his. He quite honestly replied ‘no’, although I thought he was fibbing. What I’d actually meant to ask was, ‘are there other sites on lakes, rivers etc.’.

His insistence Bosworth was unique compelled me to find and list every campsite in the UK from which you can fish, swim or boat within a spit of the missus’s loving, but watchful eye.

We’ve discovered a lot of good sites since then. But there’s still nothing quite like pulling a 8lb carp from the Bosworth lake in the morning, canoeing with the kids in the afternoon, buying fish n chips from Market Bosworth at tea-time and then watching the August sun fall over the lake island while sipping in cold pint outside the clubhouse.

They say nothing lasts ever. Let Bosworth be the exception.