Top Yard Farm Caravan Park

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View of the site (added by manager 28 Jul 2016)
View of the electric field
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  • Small, family-friendly site in the Lincolnshire countryside
  • Two miles from Skegness and 15 minutes' drive from Ingoldmells
  • On-site play area and laundry facilities
Folk setting off for Skegness will certainly find a friendly welcome at Top Yard Farm Caravan Park, a small family-run site two miles from the lively Lincolnshire coastal resort. And in settling here you'll be in a fine spot both for seaside times in Skegness and for all the surrounding area has to offer. (Hint: quite a bit.) You'll pick up on the amicable vibe as soon as you arrive at this well-maintained Lincolnshire spot, whether that's a welcome from the Top Yard Farm team themselves or meeting the other guests who come here for the family-friendly atmosphere. As well as being close to Skegness seafront, this site is about five minutes' drive from the village of Croft, where there's a pub that's just the place for catching up with friends old and new over a drink or meals out when you just don't fancy cooking. The facilities here are well kept, and include a toilet and shower block, a drinking water tap, and sinks for dishwashing and laundry. A play area is on hand to tire out the kids, and a dog walk for canine guests.

Site type

Motorhome sites 7
Caravan sites 38
Tent sites 10
Open now
Opens 8 March
Please note
  • Under 18s must be accompanied by their parents or legal guardians.
  • Group bookings of 6 or more adults are not permitted (couples and immediate family members excepted).
  • A charge of £0.50 ($1.01) applies for the use of the shower.
  • Continental touring caravans (caravans built with the passenger door on the right-hand side) are not permitted.
  • Reception is unmanned after 4 p.m.. Please inform the campground while on your way there should you expect to arrive after this time so that the team can provide information about your unit/site.
  • Please note a high security barrier (6'4") is in place and is locked at all times. Please let reception know before passing through if you have a high vehicle or roof box/bikes.

Languages spoken

English

French

Open from Fri, 8 Mar to

Pitch types & availability

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95%

would recommend this site to a friend

93%

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Only showing reviews for the last 30 months.

Excellent site with friendly owners

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

Unpowered grass tent or trailer tent site

Liked: Modern clean toilets and showers, Friendly service from the owners, on site bar and play area for children.

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Play area in camping field. Clean. Short drive to skegness.…

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

Unpowered grass tent or trailer tent site

Liked: Play area in camping field. Clean. Short drive to skegness.

Disliked: Be good if there was a freezer to refreshed ice packs in pot wash.

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Friendly staff. Clean facilities. Great location.

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

Powered grass tent or trailer tent site

Liked: Great location. Small camping area with all plots having a view of the climbing frame which made looking after my son a lot easier. Facilities are very nice. It has everything you could need. Staff are very friendly and polite as well as very accommodating.

Disliked: Main road is loud at night but not much can be done with that I know it is nit picking.

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Great site with clean toilets/showers and very helpful staff.

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

Unpowered grass tent or trailer tent site

Liked: The site was clean, tidy and the facilities were great. Friendly staff on arrival and full of valuable information. Would stay at this site again as it was good value for money and well positioned.

Disliked: Nothing.

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Excellent site Very clean showers. We was very impressed.

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

Unpowered grass tent or trailer tent site

Liked: Children loved the play area and exploring the camp site. Our first time at this camp site and we will be back

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Lovely little camp site.…

Overall 8/10
Location 10
Value for money 10
Accommodation 10
Facilities / Activities 10
Customer service 8
Child friendliness 10
Cleanliness 10
Wifi 2
A. E. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Unpowered grass tent or trailer tent site

Liked: Lovely little camp site.

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Excellent place to camp

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

Unpowered grass tent or trailer tent site

Liked: Very friendly people , campsite is very cosy and well looked after . Shower block and toilets are modern and clean

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Pitches are a nice size. Showers and toilets are kept clean. Family…

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

Powered grass tent or trailer tent site

Liked: Pitches are a nice size. Showers and toilets are kept clean. Family run and very friendly. Owners don't take any crap so your guaranteed a lovely holiday without other wrecking it. Fantastic site kids absolutely loved it. They cried when we wanted to take them out for the evening to the arcades they was enjoying the site so much. Can't wait to return next year.

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Site needs some attention to maintenance and general upkeep.

Overall 6/10
Location 6
Value for money 6
Accommodation 4
Facilities / Activities 2
Customer service 8
Child friendliness 8
Cleanliness 2
Wifi No rating
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Powered gravel caravan site

Liked: Small site ideal for children to navigate around Friendly and approachable owners Site was not rowdy at night. Very quiet. Except road. Large pitch Grass mowed frequently. Close to Skegness albeit on the side of Skegness which can have a lot of traffic Close to good choice of supermarkets Shower and toilet blocks look new Level pitches Grandchildren had an amazing holiday as this site is small and gave them freedom to go around.

Disliked: Site right next to main road which is very busy and very noisy. Traffic did die down after 11pm but started again around 5am. Really noisy if you’re in a tourer caravan. Tents positioned a bit further back so may be little less noisy in this area. This was not mentioned by other reviewers so we accept this may not be an issue to all. Drinking water tap positioned right next to the Elsan point! We did not use this one for obvious reasons. No protection around other drinking water taps and we actually saw 2 dogs being walked and the owners allowed them to pee up the points. I did speak to one owner who said it’s ok the water comes out of the tap! Waste water disposal point has no clean water flushing availability and all stale water and food collects round the point as no means to flush it clean. This is a very dirty smelly point. Definitely needs the means for users to wash down after emptying waste water. Rubbish bins constantly overflowing with rubbish left at the side of them. No options to recycle. Evidence of rodents as there are traps laid around this area. The rubbish bins, elsan point and waste water point are situated in the centre of the site and are smelly. Drinking water points grubby and the one by our van even had the remains of Childrens jelly sweets stuck to it ?? The drinking water points need some form of protection around them. Whilst we would not stay here again due to the lack of site maintenance and the road noise we appreciate our grandchildren had an amazing holiday.

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From the manager: Hi Debra Thank you for your review. We are sorry you found us lacking and not up to your high standards. I'd just like to clarify a few points especially regarding your comments suggesting we are a dirty run down site. All our water points are well above ground and are all as per regulation. Some are within a brick enclosure. There is a clear separation between the elsan tap point and the fresh water point if you didn't like the look of it that's ok too. As the brown waste point is a soak away we appreciate this can become a little funky but there is a water point a few steps away for your use. As for bins.. yes at times they overflowed often not because they were full but due to lazy guest just dropping rubbish on closed bins or not using bins bags. Bins are regularly emptied. As for rodents.. yes we have traps as do all sites it's all part of a sensible vermin control contract not because we are overrun with rats. We are happy to hear your grandchildren had fun though. We wish you happy caravanning

Clean and tidy…

Overall 4/10
Location 8
Value for money 4
Accommodation 4
Facilities / Activities 6
Customer service 4
Child friendliness 8
Cleanliness 6
Wifi 2
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Unpowered grass tent or trailer tent site

Liked: Clean and tidy

Disliked: We were put by long grass so ended up getting bitten really badly and ended up with infected insect bites on antibiotics and then had to come home early and leave our tent as they had put us on a ants nest and tent was over run with them when we asked for help owners werent interested

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From the manager: Hello Shirley, many thanks for taking the time to leave your review, however I would like to address a few points if I may. Lets start with the comments regarding how we placed you on an ants nest....Our camping fiels is surrounded by a farmers field as we are located in the countryside, hence the long grass. To suggest that we knew there was an ants nest and purposly place your tent on it is just nonsence. We can control a lot of things onsite, however we havent quite managed to take control of the natural wildlife. Also if we placed you on a nest, why did it take 6 days before this was brought to our attention?. On that note and the comments about us not being interested. Your partner first spoke to me about the issue on the evening of Friday 16th August, 6 days after you arrived. YES, 6 DAYS... I came to have a look at the tent a few minutes after speaking to him at which time I suggested that we could use some fly spray to kill the ants inside and move the tent. I came back with a can of flyspray a few minutes after looking at the tent and left it with you. The next I knew about your departure was some young children had picked up the can of fly spray which you irresponsibly disgarded and sprayed it over themselves causing a lot of tears and some pain to the children. In case you didnt know, flyspray is a poison and shouldnt be left for children to pick up. I will be passing on your details to the families of the children effected by your actions. Maybe in future you shouldnt book a campsite in the countryside, believe it or not, there is wildlife out there.......


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 site/unit Composting toilet Dog park Drying room Food shop Free wifi Ice pack freezing Internet access Laundry Parent & baby washroom Pick-up from public transport Portable toilet Pub toilets Public telephone Shower available Toilet block Washing-up area Wifi

Groups welcome

D. of E. welcome Family friendly Motorcycle friendly Rallies welcome Single-sex groups welcome Student groups welcome

Rules

Barbecue provided Barbecues allowed Campfires allowed Commercial vehicles allowed Dogs allowed Dogs allowed all year

Themes

Peaceful

Utilities

Charging facilities Dump point Electric car charging point(s) Gas cylinders available Recycling available Renewable energy

Nearby amenities

Bar nearby Dog walk nearby Nearby farmers' market

Type

Large (51-200 sites)

Accessibility

Disabled facilities

Nearby leisure

Cycling nearby Fishing nearby Golf nearby Indoor pool nearby Leisure/theme park nearby Outdoor pool nearby Restaurant nearby Sailing nearby

Touring and motorhomes

Caravan storage facilities Seasonal sites

Location

Top Yard Farm Caravan Park

Croft Bank

Croft

Skegness

Lincolnshire

England

PE24 4RL

Directions

Timezone

Europe/London +0100 (GMT+01:00)

GPS

53.12922°N
0.2838°W

Nearest transport

Coach
3.6 km Coach Station
4.1 km Market Place
4.3 km Railway Station
Rail
1.8 km Havenhouse Rail Station
3.7 km Skegness Rail Station
4.2 km Wainfleet Rail Station
Ferry
42.1 km West Lynn Ferry Landing
42.3 km King's Lynn Ferry Landing

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

Top Yard Farm is within easy travelling distance of Skegness, with its beach, pier and three-storey amusement arcade as well as non-seasidey town things like the National Parrot Sanctuary, Natureland Seal Sanctuary, Skegness Golf Centre and the Embassy Theatre. Bars, nightclubs and restaurants are plentiful too if you're sticking around in town into the night. On the edge of Skegness, running to the mouth of the Wash, is another famed Lincolnshire coastal spot in the Gibraltar Point Nature Reserve, home to gulls, waders and wildfowl around its lagoons, saltmarsh, dunes, foreshore and beach. The reserve has a visitor centre and a bird observatory, along with marked walks and trails. A little further north along the coast are other much-visited seaside towns in Sutton on Sea and Mablethorpe; Ingoldmells and the Fantasy Island theme park are a few miles south. Inland, pick up food, antiques, souvenirs and more at Lincolnshire's market towns like Spilsby (nine miles), Alford (15 miles), Louth (20 miles) and Boston (20 miles).

Water quality at nearby bathing waters

Name Distance Type 2020 2019 2018 2017
Skegness 4.7 km Sea N/A Excellent Excellent Excellent
Ingoldmells South 8.1 km Sea Good Good Excellent Excellent
Chapel St Leonards 11.1 km Sea Good Excellent Excellent Excellent
Anderby 14.8 km Sea N/A Excellent Excellent Excellent
Moggs Eye 16.2 km Sea N/A Excellent Excellent Excellent

Data source: European Environment Agency

Must see

Sandringham 37.2 km

Holkham Hall 40 km

Houghton Hall 42 km

Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham 47.3 km

Ayscoughfee Hall Museum and Gardens 48.1 km

National Trust

Gunby Hall 8.1 km

Gunby Hall Estate: Monksthorpe Chapel 9.1 km

Brancaster 31.3 km

Tattershall Castle 32.1 km

St George's Guildhall 42.2 km

Cycle routes

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

Other

Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve 4.4 km

GUNBY HALL 8 km

WELL HALL 14.5 km

HARRINGTON HALL 19 km

Hagworthingham - Sausthorpe - Hundleby Circular 19.8 km

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.

Nearest sites

Unfortunately, we have no nearby bookable sites.

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Frequently asked questions

  • Does Top Yard Farm Caravan Park have a swimming pool? No View all features
  • Is Top Yard Farm Caravan Park dog friendly? Yes View all features
  • What attractions are near Top Yard Farm Caravan Park? Top Yard Farm is within easy travelling distance of Skegness, with its beach, pier and three-storey amusement arcade as well as non-seasidey town things like the National Parrot Sanctuary, Natureland Seal Sanctuary, … Read more
  • When can I check in and check out of Top Yard Farm Caravan Park?
    Camping and caravan
    Arrive:  2 p.m. –  6 p.m.
    Depart by:  11 a.m.
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  • How much does it cost to stay at Top Yard Farm Caravan Park? From $34.11 (for 1 night, 2 adults) - prices may change depending on your dates and party.