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New campsites this week on Pitchup.com (October 29)

Oct 29 2025 Posted by Pitchup

There’s nine more campsites live for the first time on Pitchup.com this week. There’s 4 new campsites in England, with a caravan park in Market Drayton, a small parking area for motorhomes near Fort William in the Scottish Highlands, a family run site in Cornwall and some quiet pitches at a …

New campsites this week on Pitchup.com

Oct 22 2025 Posted by Pitchup

There’s a few new campsites live for the first time on Pitchup.com this week. There’s 4 new campsites in England, with one in County Durham, one in Suffolk, one in Norwich and another one in North Yorkshire.

Looking further into Europe:

• There’s a cool new luxury geo dome available …

Blow away the winter cobwebs with a spring farm break

Mar 18 2016 Posted by Jardine Howlett

Take your pick of beautiful farms at home and abroad with outdoor holiday specialist, Pitchup.com

If the winter weather has kept you indoors for too long this winter, now is the time to book a spring escape.  Try a farm with Pitchup.com and enjoy stunning natural settings and perhaps the …

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General news

New campsites this week on Pitchup.com (October 29)

Oct 29 2025 Posted by Pitchup

There’s nine more campsites live for the first time on Pitchup.com this week. There’s 4 new campsites in England, with a caravan park in Market Drayton, a small parking area for motorhomes near Fort William in the Scottish Highlands, a family run site in Cornwall and some quiet pitches at a …

Go Scottish – and Welsh – on 25 January

Jan 25 2013 Posted by Laura Canning

Happy Burns Night – and St Dwynwen's Day!

Canny celebrators will know this is the eve of Burns Night and Burns Supper, the Scotland-wide celebrations of the birthday of national poet Robert Burns. But it’s also St Dwynwen's Day, the Welsh version of Valentine’s Day, which we know means double …

New gallery opens in Hastings – in a three-man tent

Jan 9 2013 Posted by Laura Canning

We think this will be the smallest photo gallery in Britain – and the only one set up in a traditional tent.

The Tent Gallery, set up by Hastings artists and camping fans Martin Symons and David Fowler, is a nine square foot display area which will host a …

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Camping and caravanning news

Caravan industry worth £6billion a year to UK economy

Jan 15 2013 Posted by Laura Canning

Even with concerns that the UK economy is heading for a triple-dip recession, things are still going strong for the caravan industry.

Recent figures by the National Caravan Council (NCC) show that not only is the industry proving resilient to financially difficult times, but that it’s making a major contribution …

Grandfather camps out for five days to get Dorset beach hut

Jan 8 2013 Posted by Laura Canning

He’s done it…after a five-day campout, 68 year old Keith Duell has rented the only hut on a Dorset beach available for more than six weeks.

Keith started the campout on 2 January to secure the only long-term hut on Mudeford’s windswept Avon Beach, which became available yesterday (7 January). …

Police appeal after caravan stolen from Leicester home

Jan 3 2013 Posted by Laura Canning

Police in Leicester have appealed for information after a touring caravan was stolen near Oakham.

The white Swift Rapide was taken between 13 and 14 December from Casterton Lane in Pickworth, with local police asking for anyone who saw the caravan being removed from the property or who saw the …

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