Our first outing in our third year of touring! This weekend we headed for the centre of England, Haltwhistle, where nearby further up the hill lies the very new campsite of Herding Hill Farm.
Herding Hill Farm has only been open a couple of years and is a family run affair. The site is very nice indeed. Spacious caravan pitches (9m x 9m) along with a superb wash block, bar/restaurant, playground and livestock in the way of donkeys and alpacas. The site is also host to some wooden wigwams, some complete with hot tubs!
Access to the site is straight forward. It is wisely recommended not to approach from the A69 as the road is very steep, narrow and bendy. Instead, approach from the B6318. From an Easterly direction, this can be picked up from the A68, which we did. However, on the return journey I decided to head West for about 3 miles, which brings you back on the A69, which provided a smoother journey!
The site is a little exposed and provided some real wintry weather during our stay. High winds, snow and a bitter temperature! So much so that the Alde heating had a hard time keeping us at 14 degrees. Re-enforcements were called upon for and a trip to Hexham saw the purchase of a heater, lovely! TV signal was good on the site, so no need to deploy the satellite on this occasion.
In Haltwhistle itself there is a Sainsbury’s supermarket, so any essentials can be purchased here. Not much else on the high street, just your typical village stores. And of course a railway station! Much of the weekend was spent, relaxing! Other than forgetting the towels, everything else went to plan and we had a really enjoyable weekend.
- Date: 9th February 2013
- Nights: 2
- Pitch #: 7
- GPS: 54.981729, -2.449779
