The Red Lion

Thank you. And you now hold the record time for getting back here after a summer concert!

Thanks for taking the time to leave us a review. And thanks for staying with us and understanding we are what we say we are, at the moment.

Thank you, very much, for leaving this review - especially for pointing out we are what we say we are, and some of our shortcomings, that we're aware of. We can see how we might make it easier unpacking to get around to the rear without the car having access and will try to sort that. If it stops raining every other day as we try to develop our site for the rest of this summer, and the local Grade II Building planning permission gang that work one day a week get on with giving us permission for showers etc, we'll hopefully be something much better sooner rather than later. We very much enjoyed having you. Thanks for staying.

Thank you, very much. We enjoyed watching your good work on the TV too on a great racing weekend.

Thanks Matt. We're really glad your group enjoyed staying here.

Thank you! We enjoyed having all of you here, so very much. The Scottish lads had a second night with us and did tell us that parking up and using their folding bicycles will apparently beat your folding car tops down there every time, when the airshow is on, and they did some wheelies as they went past all of you. Was also good to hear from them you all met up down there a few times during the event as well. What you won't know, that levels the North/South rivalry out a wee bit, is, they couldn't find their car afterwards ........ But they did made it back here in the end. We'll definitely look forward to seeing you again.

Thanks for leaving your 6/10 review. I'm incredibly sorry we clearly weren't the type of camping site you were looking for. I'm also rather disappointed to read some of this though.

Pitchup is a great website, and we very much hope you'll use them again. Any camping site that lists with them has to complete a very detailed and very comprehensive questionnaire. That then allows any prospective camper to select from over 100 tick boxes of what is important to them, and find a site that will actually meet their personal needs. I do however know that we've been 100% honest about what we are, and what we are not, when we filled that out.

You certainly were pitched not far from our kitchen, but the kitchen extractor fan is always off by 9, which would be while you were watching the sunset - and the Tawny Owls weren't out until around 9:45, so I'm not sure where the noise you've referred to came from? We don't have a generator.

I am sorry I hadn't replaced the mirror in the Ladies toilet on the evening you were with us, and that you didn't find the rather large one immediately outside the Ladies toilet door.

I'm afraid I can't respond further to your basic toilet and washing facilities comment. I wish we had spoken so I knew the point you were trying to make here. Our ladies toilet has the expected toilet, a hand sink, paper towels, extra toilet rolls, a soap dispenser, a waste basket, a sanitary basket and plastic cups for mouth rinsing. I am somewhat at a loss to understand what else we're missing here? 01638 508707, do please call and explain so we can maybe take care of this?

We cut our paddock grass at least once a week. There are no children camping here. We clearly advertise we're an adult only site. Being surrounded by 1500 acres of wild countryside that isn't cut once a week, things will find their way over here and grow I'm afraid. I'm sure you saw the 3 1/2 foot high wild paddock weeds over our West fence we can do nothing about since we don't own it.

The washing up facility comment was helpful. I don't recall seeing you cooking anything, by the way? We've now written a five page information sheet we can give to people on arrival. So thank you for this comment too. Included in it we've mentioned we have a commercial dishwasher that takes all of two minutes to cycle and we are our campers washing up facility. Had you come back in after pitching your tent, as you said you would, Gwyn would have covered that, and many other things.

I cannot recall whether the Pitchup questionnaire covers whether cars can be parked tent-side or not. I think it does, in which case we'd have ticked the they cannot box, but I'll contact them the day after tomorrow, since clearly that is something important too, so thank you for that comment as well.

Morris.