- Date: 9th November 2024
- Nights: 7
- Pitch #: 82
- GPS: 53.133244, -1.489850
Sat: An easy 8am start, pick the ‘van up and head onwards to Weatherby for a bacon buttie and coffee! Following this, we continued on towards our destination and arrived there without any issues. The A615 is a bit bendy and neat, but manageable. I chose not to use Lickpenny Lane and go via the more suitable B6014, a very minor detour saving the close shavings we would have got involved in on the lane. We arrived and booked in, with a bit of a tepid response and then toured the site to find a pitch! The site was quite full but fortunately we found a good pitch at the top of the site, with the views. A tight swing in and the mover to adjust, we were pitched for our holiday.
Sun: No railways to go to as they are all closed, so a relax on site – very nice!
Mon: Weather good, so a trip to Carsington Water for a walk around the reservoir. After an eventful journey there – roads closed due to Remembrance Day, we eventually found our way there, via some interesting single track roads 🙂 We parked up and took in the visitor centre and then some walks around the reservoir. It was very pleasant and worth a trip, the walk around the reservoir would have been some 7.5 miles, so we declined that and did a much shorter tour of the site! Back at the site, more units were arriving, a good thing to see that this pastime is still healthy even in the more dormant months.