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Opened to commemorate the Caravan Club’s Centenary Year in 2007, this is a beautiful site in an equally beautiful location. It is home to the Club’s Centenary Garden.
This site is a wonderful base for a holiday that combines forest and seaside. There are cycle and walking routes through the forest with ponies, deer and all manner of other wildlife; ‘chocolate box’ villages and characterful towns including Lymington and Lyndhurst; and beautiful coastal scenery looking out over Christchurch Bay and the Solent. Further afield are the beaches at Bournemouth and the harbour at Poole.
The site was originally part of a Second World War airfield and has been beautifully landscaped to provide both grass pitches and hardstandings, all with electric hookups. For a small extra charge there are Serviced Pitches which, in the main, means they have an all-weather surface, an individual ground inlet to accept grey water and a shared illuminated bollard providing electric hookup and drinking water point.
The Centenary Site has all the facilities you could possibly want and the showers and toilets are both plentiful and immaculate. Pitch sizes are generous and there’s a children’s play area, play field, fully enclosed dog walk and a Wildlife Sanctuary with both grassy and fenland sections. There’s a Late Arrivals area and, for those who really MUST bring their laptop on holiday, there’s even wi-fi. The wardens are friendly and helpful and the shop stocks local produce including delicious honey. There’s also a visiting butcher twice a week, offering mouth-watering local sausages as well as bacon, chops, steaks and joints.
This is a site that will get even better over time, as the hedges, trees and shrub planting become more mature. It can be quite a windy site at the moment, so this will provide the pitches with welcome shelter.
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