Leadstone Camping

No availability at present on Pitchup.com 9.2 311 reviews
Visitor image of part of the site (added by manager 08 Sep 2022)
Sea glimpse from some of the pitches (added by manager 08 sep 2022)
Looking across field 2 (added by manager 08 sep 2022)
Level view from field 3 looking towards field 2 and sea in the distance (added by manager 20 jun 2015)

  • Old-fashioned site with modern facilities
  • A 10-minute walk to beach, dunes and nature reserve of Dawlish Warren
  • Seven acres of grassland in a secluded setting
Old-style camping with new-style facilities, minutes from the Blue Flag Devon coastline and a 500-acre nature reserve stuffed with species of all sorts… you might want two weeks at least at Leadstone Camping in Dawlish Warren, ta. This very friendly site, which has been around since 1974, one of those where the staff do their utmost to make sure guests have the best time possible: although this is traditional and uncommercialised camping, standards are modern, including a redeveloped amenities block with showers, toilets, free hot water to basins, a hairdryer, baby changing unit and an accessible room with shower, toilet and wash basin. Leadstone also has a launderette, playground, washing-up facilities and water points in the pitching fields. For other supplies and nosh, a supermarket is a mile away, and anyone walking the 10 minutes to Dawlish Warren will find a pub serving lunch and evening meals handily placed along the way.

Site type

Tent pitches 55
Touring caravan pitches 55
Motorhome pitches 27

Tourist board rating

Please note
  • The site does not accept breeds/crossbreeds listed in the Dangerous Dogs Act (i.e. Pit Bull Terrier, Japanese Tosa, Dogo Argentino, and Fila Brasileiro).
  • A charge of £0.20 applies for the use of the shower.
  • The site caters for families (immediate members) and couples only - bookings from all other forms of groups are not accepted.
  • At least one of the party members must be aged 18 or over.
  • American-style RVs are not permitted.

Languages spoken

English

AA 4 pennants

Pitch types & availability

No availability at present on Pitchup.com

Choose your dates and we'll email when available.

See nearby bookable sites

Reviews

94%

would recommend this site to a friend

90%

would stay here again

  • 70%
    10
  • 0%
    9
  • 22%
    8
  • 0%
    7
  • 4%
    6
  • 0%
    5
  • 0%
    4
  • 0%
    3
  • 1%
    2
  • 0%
    1

Only showing reviews for the last 30 months.

Would recommend

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 10
Wifi No rating
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass pitch

Liked: too!

Recommend to friends Visit again

Level pitches, friendly welcome, no lights on at night time…

Overall 8/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 8
Facilities / Activities 6
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 2
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass pitch

Liked: Level pitches, friendly welcome, no lights on at night time

Disliked: Having a pich that had just been mowed so I had grass cuttings all over the van.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Clean and tidy

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 8
Accommodation No rating
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 8
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 10
Nicola G. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass pitch

Liked: Clean and tidy site, very well kept. Very quiet as last week of season.nice walk down to Dawlish warren and down sea walk to Dawlish.option to buy WiFi was useful.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Friendly staff

Overall 8/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 8
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 6
James W. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass pitch

Liked: How clean and tidy the toilets and washing area and location

Disliked: How much it rained lol

Recommend to friends Visit again

Exelent position all it said it was easy access by train to…

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 10
Wifi No rating
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass pitch

Liked: Exelent position all it said it was easy access by train to other places Unfortunately had to leave early as motorhome leaked but will go back for sure

Recommend to friends Visit again

Friendly staff…

Overall 6/10
Location 8
Value for money 6
Accommodation 6
Facilities / Activities 6
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 6
Cleanliness 8
Wifi 6
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass pitch

Liked: Friendly staff

Disliked: Reactive noisy dogs and dogs off lead

Recommend to friends Visit again

Loved are stay we stayed an extra night and can't wait to come back.

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 8
Accommodation No rating
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 10
Wifi No rating
Sharron R. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass pitch

Liked: Staff very helpful and always happy, facilities always clean

Disliked: Nothing

Recommend to friends Visit again

Great for sex

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 4
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass pitch

Liked: All the sex I had

Disliked: The times I want having sex

Recommend to friends Visit again

Great location, clean tidy field.

Overall 10/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 10
Child friendliness No rating
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 6
Andrea A. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass pitch

Liked: The locality of the public transport links. There was a bus stop right outside of the gates and at the bottom of the hill was the train station. Could not have been enter located really.

Disliked: The site was too big for us as we usually stay on CL or CS sites however, it was quiet, the odd dog barking but not off putting. The field was on a slope too and we had to use the jack to level the caravan.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Nothing…

Overall 2/10
Location 2
Value for money 2
Accommodation 2
Facilities / Activities 2
Customer service 2
Child friendliness 2
Cleanliness 2
Wifi 2
D P. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass pitch

Liked: Nothing

Disliked: Very disappointed smells from rubbish when told staff she said can't help it it's the weather

Recommend to friends Visit again


Features

Leisure on site

Bar or club house

Cycle hire

Evening entertainment

Fishing

Fitness centre

Games room

Indoor swimming pool

Kids' club

On-site restaurant/cafe

Outdoor swimming pool

Play area

TV room

Take away

Tennis

Watersports

Amenities on site

Bath available

Car parking by pitch/unit

Composting toilet

Disabled facilities

Dog park

Drying room

Food shop

Free wifi

Ice pack freezing

Internet access

Launderette

Parent & baby washroom

Pick-up from public transport

Portable toilet

Pub toilets

Public telephone

Shower available

Toilet block

Washing-up area

Wifi

Groups welcome

Family friendly

Motorcycle friendly

Single-sex groups welcome

Student groups welcome

Rules

Barbecue provided

Barbecues allowed

Campfires allowed

Commercial vehicles allowed

Dogs allowed

Dogs allowed all year

Themes

Budget/backpacker

Peaceful

Utilities

Charging facilities

Chemical disposal

Electric car charging point(s)

Gas cylinders available

Recycling available

Renewable energy

Nearby amenities

Bar nearby

Dog walk nearby

Public transport nearby

Shop nearby

Type

Large (51-200 pitches)

Nearby leisure

Canoeing/kayaking nearby

Cycle hire nearby

Cycling nearby

Fishing nearby

Golf nearby

Indoor pool nearby

Restaurant nearby

Tennis nearby

Touring and motorhomes

Motorhome service point

Seasonal pitches

Location

Leadstone Camping

Warren Road

Dawlish Warren

Dawlish

Devon

England

EX7 0NG

Directions

Timezone

Europe/London GMT (GMT+00:00)

GPS

50.59408°N
-3.45157°W

Route directions

As you approach the site, avoid Week Lane as it is very narrow.

Nearest transport

Coach
1.2 mi The Green
1.3 mi Westcliff Road
2.3 mi Opposite Rail Station
Rail
0.5 mi Dawlish Warren Rail Station
1.1 mi Dawlish Rail Station
2.3 mi Starcross Rail Station
Ferry
2 mi Exmouth Ferry Landing
2.3 mi Starcross Ferry Landing
4.2 mi Teignmouth Ferry Landing
Airport
9.6 mi Exeter International Airport

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

Local attractions

Leadstone Camping's location makes it easy to get to most of Devon's attractions and it's simple to get from the site to wherever takes your fancy. Roads are relatively quiet for most of the year apart from in high season. Dawlish Warren is a top place to be in Devon, partly for its safe clean beach and partly for its sand dunes leading onto 500-acre Dawlish Warren Nature Reserve, a hugely popular spot with birdwatchers and botanists. On foot, walk the half mile to the Warren (it's a safe stroll and suitable for prams) or to the South West Coast Path within 10 minutes; it's also half a mile to the Exe Cycle Trail or the circular six-mile Dawlish Discovery Walk. A mile away is the Exe estuary – another top local spot and a hit for fishing, hiking, biking and birdwatching – and the town of Dawlish itself is a mile and a half away: look out for the famous black swans. Also nearby is the harbour and two good pubs at Cockwood, two and a half miles away, and golf at Starcross before taking the ferry from here to Exmouth. Shaldon, seven miles away, has another golf course and can be reached by ferry from the busy resort of Teignmouth. For towns, take off to Exminster (nine miles; more golf), Torquay (10 miles), Newton Abbot (11 miles; racecourse and ancient market), Exeter (13 miles) and Paignton (13 miles; take the steam railway from here to Kingswear and Dartmouth).

Water quality at nearby bathing waters

Name Distance Type 2020 2019 2018 2017
Dawlish Warren 0.7 mi Estuary N/A Excellent Excellent Excellent
Dawlish Town 1.1 mi Sea N/A Good Good Excellent
Dawlish Coryton Cove 1.5 mi Sea N/A Excellent Excellent Excellent
Teignmouth Holcombe 2.4 mi Sea N/A Excellent Excellent Excellent
Exmouth 2.5 mi Estuary N/A Excellent Excellent Excellent

Data source: European Environment Agency

Must see

Crealy Great Adventure Park 8 mi

Exeter Cathedral - Church of Saint Peter 9.6 mi

Living Coasts 9.9 mi

Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site 11 mi

Paignton Zoo Environmental Park 12.9 mi

National Trust

A la Ronde 3.9 mi

Compton Castle 10.6 mi

Killerton: Clyston Mill 11.7 mi

Killerton: Marker's Cottage 11.8 mi

Killerton: Budlake Old Post Office 13.3 mi

Cycle routes

Find local routes on the National Cycle Network - over 12,000 miles of cycling routes.

Other

STONELANDS HOUSE 1.7 mi

LUSCOMBE CASTLE 2.3 mi

Exmouth, Geoneedle, Coast Path and Knowle Walk 2.6 mi

MAMHEAD PARK 3 mi

Church Rocks 3.5 mi

Local events

  • Sidmouth Folk Festival (Friday, 2 August 2024 – Friday, 2 August 2024)

    Sidmouth, Devon 11.2 mi

  • Beautiful Days (Friday, 16 August 2024 – Friday, 16 August 2024)

    Ottery St Mary, Devon 14.1 mi

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

Want to know more about camping in Devon?

  • Does Leadstone Camping have a swimming pool? No View all features
  • Is Leadstone Camping dog friendly? Yes View all features
  • What attractions are near Leadstone Camping? Leadstone Camping's location makes it easy to get to most of Devon's attractions and it's simple to get from the site to wherever takes your fancy. Roads are relatively quiet for most … Read more
  • When can I check in and check out of Leadstone Camping?
    Camping and touring
    Arrive:  12 p.m. –  8 p.m.
    Depart by:  11 a.m.
    On-site accommodation
    Arrive:  Anytime –  8 p.m.
    Depart by:  Anytime

    Please contact the site at the phone number provided for arrivals after 6pm Monday - Saturday and after 4pm on Sunday.

    Read more