Torworth Lakes

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Pitches on site
Lake on site
Grass pitch with water and electricity
One of the spacious hardstanding pitches with water, waste and electricity

  • Small and serene family-run site with scenic fishing lakes
  • A 10-minute drive from Retford and 15 minutes from Worksop
  • Play area, wifi, shop and café; angling and barbecues permitted
Tote your caravan along to the small and secluded family-run site at Torworth Lakes and settle down at a spacious pitch overlooking a selection of lush fishing lakes. Another plus for this park? The location. Close to some of Nottinghamshire’s most-visited attractions, it’s a fab base for touring National Trust sites, historic market towns and kids’ adventure centres. Have a chat with the team about the main spots to visit – the staff here have all sorts of smashing suggestions up their sleeves. You could also ask them about places to eat, but don’t be surprised if they recommend the on-site café, which serves up mouth-watering grub including breakfasts and cakes. There’s also a well-stocked farm shop for grabbing ingredients – think artisan bread, in-season fruit and veg, and locally sourced meat – particularly handy if you’ll be making the most of the fact barbecues are allowed. Fishing is also permitted at this park, so anglers can sit down at purpose-built pegs and have a go at reeling in a variety of carp such as tench, barbel, koi, rudd, roach and orfe. Catch one of the biggest specimens and an award comes in the form of an edible treat. All sorts of caravanning preferences are catered for at this park as a handful of the pitches are enclosed hardstanding options with electric hook-ups, water and waste, while a further few are on grass with electricity and water. Kids have a playground to check out, and wifi is available as well. Please note there's only one toilet and shower on site, so bear this in mind when booking.

Campground type

Camper sites 15
RV sites 15
Open all year
Opens
Please note
  • Under 18s must be accompanied by their parents or legal guardians.
  • Facilities/activities including fishing are subject to extra charges payable on arrival.
  • Bookings must not be for more than 14 consecutive nights.
  • Commercial vehicles (vehicles used for work-related purposes, carrying goods or fare-paying passengers) and sign-written vehicles are not permitted on site.
  • Reception is unmanned after 4 p.m.. Please inform the park while on your way there should you expect to arrive after this time so that the team can provide information about your unit/site.
  • Tents are not accepted at this park.
  • At least one of the party members must be aged 21 or over.

Languages spoken

English

Campsite types & availability

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82% would recommend this campground to a friend

81% would stay here again

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Arrival date (latest first)

This will always be one of our favourite local campsites! We always…

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

Powered grass travel trailer campsite

Liked This will always be one of our favourite local campsites! We always have the best weekends here. The fishing, the iced coffees, the relaxed family vibes, the space for the kids to explore and play, the friendliness of the staff, the sectioned of pitches. We love it and we will 100% be booking again.

Disliked Nothing. We love it here!

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Gorgeous site but we are disappointed by our experience.

Overall 6/10

Location
10
Value for money
8
Accommodation
8
Facilities / Activities
6
Customer service
5
Child friendliness
7
Cleanliness
8
Wifi
No rating
Rachael B. The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Powered grass travel trailer campsite

Liked The site is beautiful, the pitches are spacious and well laid out. The ponds are easily accessible and the location is idyllic.
Water points on each pitch is a bonus and there’s lots of room to manoeuvre around the site. The pitches are separated by privacy hedges and the entrance is well defined from the roadside with wide entryway and signposts round to the pitches.

Disliked We had not realised there was an extra charge for fishing, which was no problem but the gentleman who came to check was extremely rude and aggressive, my husband immediately went to pay and found the man complaining loudly about him in the middle of the shop. The same man also told off another child in our party for standing next to a peg rather than inside it (was fishing with her father) and for not using a landing net for a tiny roach (less than 100g!)

The shop is advertised as being open until 3.30. At 2pm we took all the children for an icecream. 5 members of staff were working on setting up the cafe for a party. We were told they were no longer serving and would have to go somewhere else. (We went to Manor Farm at Oldcoates and it was lovely - thoroughly recommend)

The private party in the cafe was very loud- it didn’t bother our party but was a problem for some other guests. There was no warning that it was happening and went on past midnight, again, no problem for us but would have been courteous to warn campsite guests that a special event was planned.

The bins area is quite unkempt, the gravel path to the toilet drain is weedy and the electric box in that area has no door.

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Lovely Location in need of more consideration.

Overall 5/10

Location
6
Value for money
6
Accommodation
5
Facilities / Activities
3
Customer service
1
Child friendliness
4
Cleanliness
3
Wifi
4
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Powered cement/asphalt and grass travel trailer campsite

Liked Lake side location close to good towns and excellent transport links. The pitches had hedges to 3 sides which made for great privacy.

Disliked On Shower and one toilet for all the site was not ideal and I think that the cleanliness left much to be desired. The on site restaurant held an event on Saturday night which was exceptionally loud and went on until late into the night. This is not quite what you would expect from a countryside location like this. Because of the event the onsite cafe/restaurant was closed. It would have been nice if the owners/staff had informed the people on the site at booking or before arrival so that they could make an informed choice as to whether they wished to continue to stay. The site on Saturday was noisier than a Sheffield nightclub and it was so bad on caravan left at 10.15 pm.

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Very nice and quiet place, plenty of space to walk, I will…

Overall 10/10

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

Powered grass travel trailer campsite

Liked Very nice and quiet place, plenty of space to walk, I will definitely come back

Disliked There could be a few more showers and toilets, but it is not that important because the pitches are only for campers and caravans and each has a water and electricity connection.

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Would probably visit again, but probably not at busy times

Overall 8/10

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

Powered cement/asphalt and grass travel trailer campsite

Liked Site was nice pitch was very good with elec water and waste water and also had a small hedge around it which made it a little more private, 5 small pond/lakes for fishing if your into that, nice cafe on site and prices reasonable.

Disliked Only one toilet and one shower which was OK as only 5 caravans on site but site has 15 spaces so could probably do with more when full. Didn't like that the get waste point and elsa point didnt have a cover in.

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Lovely and quiet little site in the country side. Shower and toilet…

Overall 10/10

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

Powered cement/asphalt and grass travel trailer campsite

Liked Lovely and quiet little site in the country side. Shower and toilet clean even though there is only 1 of each. Several fishing ponds to choose from. Lovely coffee shop serving cakes, pork pies and ice cream.

Disliked No lighting on site. Dead fish around the pond skeleton left for the kids to see. Electric lighting stands around the ponds been left to fall in the pond. The ponds but alot of tlc.

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Beautiful site

Overall 10/10

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

Powered cement/asphalt and grass travel trailer campsite

Liked After reading some of the reviews i wasnt expecting much from the site but its cheap and close to home for our first break this year but so glad we came it's lovley. Absolutely beautiful so peaceful. Massive pitches. Kids loved the site and already asking when we will be back and we only just set off home.

Disliked The walk to toilet and shower room but that's no major. Could of done with the lights on the cafe decking on so it made the walk lighter.

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DO NOT BOOK..

Overall 2/10

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

Powered cement/asphalt and grass travel trailer campsite

Liked Nice sized hedged pitches..

Disliked What a disappointment!!

Campers are not catered for on this site do NOT BOOK!!

Turned up went to check in in the cafe a young lad served me gave me a rule book
/ key code and that’s the only time I seen or spoke to any members of staff in 4days not 1 person came round to check on us or to even say hi/morning or bye/night before they all went home at 4.30-5oclock.. They are more interested in the cafe/Deli then the campers..
I sent my bloke round to grab some drinks while we was fishing they only had glass bottles of coke at £3 a bottle, once again not catering for the campers..

The lakes 🙈 5 lakes with about 30+ pegs and you could only get to 3 the rest were underwater all the paths around the lakes where flooded/Over grown this isn’t a bad winter this is a couple years worth of neglect.. They was so over grown you couldn’t even cast out let alone get a fish in 🙈..
They charged £8 a day PP..

None of this was mentioned on booking..
We came to fish & was very disappointed in the state of the lakes clearly not been looked after in years..
They could’ve mentioned on booking that the lakes where over gown/flooded.. I wouldn’t have booked if so..

As a family we was very unhappy with this campsite & will not be returning.. it has a lot of potential it would be a beautiful place if lakes where cleaned up & manager/staff made more of a effort with there campers not just dump us in a field n forget about us..
Only thing they care about is the cafe and locals that come in..

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Work in progress. I would stay there again though, nice site.

Overall 6/10

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

Powered cement/asphalt and grass travel trailer campsite

Liked Good sized fully serviced pitches with view of the lakes and cafe. Cafe was lovely, friendly and good food.
Handy stopover for travelling on the A1.

Disliked No time space between people coming in and leaving. Meant to leave by 11am, I was hitching up at 10.35 and there was already someone sitting waiting for my spot. I felt very pressured to leave. Then 5 min later, as I was driving out, someone else started driving in through the narrow gap. They reversed so I could drive over the grass to pass. This timing need sorted, they should give people a chance to leave before letting others in. Toilet (only 1 for site) had dried on poo and not cleaned, so obviously not checked daily.

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Would visit again if on my route.

Overall 8/10

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

Powered cement/asphalt and grass travel trailer campsite

Liked Friendly staff. Peaceful setting.

Disliked Cafe was not open till 9.30 for breakfast. Walk to toilet was closed due to flooding.

Recommend to friends Visit again


Features

Leisure on park

Bar or club house Cycle hire Evening entertainment Fishing Fitness centre Indoor swimming pool Kids' club On-site restaurant/cafe Outdoor swimming pool Playground Recreation room/arcade TV room Takeout Tennis Watersports

Amenities on park

Bath available Car parking by site/unit Composting toilet Dog park Drying room Free wifi Grocery store Ice pack freezing Internet access Laundromat Parent & baby washroom Payphone Pick-up from public transport Portable toilet Pub toilets Restrooms Shower available Washing-up area Wifi

Groups welcome

Family friendly Motorcycle friendly Single-sex groups welcome Student groups welcome

Rules

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

Themes

Lake and/or mountain Peaceful Wildlife haven

Utilities

Charging facilities Dump station Electric car charging point(s) Propane/gas cylinders available Recycling available Renewable energy

Nearby amenities

Bar nearby Convenience store nearby Dog walk nearby Nearby farmers' market

Type

Small (11-25 sites)

Nearby leisure

Cycle hire nearby Cycling nearby Fishing nearby Leisure/theme park nearby Restaurant nearby

Location

Torworth Lakes

Great North Road

Torworth

Nottinghamshire

England

DN22 8NY

Directions

Timezone

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

GPS

53.36669°N
1.01047°W

Nearest transport

Bus
4.3 mi Bus Station
6.4 mi Hardy Street
12.1 mi Doncaster Interchange
Rail
4.4 mi Retford Rail Station
4.5 mi Retford Low Level Rail Station
6 mi Worksop Rail Station
Airport
7.9 mi Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport
8.2 mi Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport
15.5 mi Sheffield City 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

This site’s in rather a rural part of the country, so visitors have access to pretty parks, historic market towns and attractive architecture set in the middle of leafy countryside. If it’s green space you’re after, get to the National Trust’s Clumber Park (20 minutes’ drive) for cycling and walking on trails amid farmland and woodland, then wander down by the river at the Idle Valley Nature Reserve (five minutes). Got kids eager to eye up animals? Yomp to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park (15 minutes) and mingle with more than 300 different types of species. If you don’t have any nippers to think about, head to historic market towns like Bawtry (five minutes), Retford (10 minutes) and Newark (35 minutes) for grownup adventures. Roving around religious architecture is also within reach at Rufford Abbey (35 minutes) and Southwell Minster (40 minutes).

Must see

Sherwood Forest Country Park 11.5 mi

Bolsover Castle 15 mi

Magna Science Adventure Centre 15.8 mi

Brodsworth Hall and Gardens 16.3 mi

Mansfield Museum 17.3 mi

National Trust

Mr Straw's House 5.6 mi

Clumber Park 7.2 mi

Hardwick Estate: Stainsby Mill 18.4 mi

Hardwick Hall 18.4 mi

The Workhouse, Southwell 19.9 mi

Cycle routes

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

Other

BABWORTH HALL 3.6 mi

Carlton Mill Circular 4.6 mi

Gringley-on-the-Hill - Cuckoo Way - Clayworth 5.6 mi

SANDBECK PARK AND ROCHE ABBEY 6.3 mi

CLUMBER PARK 7 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.

Offers

Conditions apply - see campsite type section for details

Nearest campgrounds

Unfortunately, we have no nearby bookable campgrounds.

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Frequently asked questions

  • Does Torworth Lakes have a swimming pool? No View all features
  • Is Torworth Lakes dog friendly? Yes View all features
  • What attractions are near Torworth Lakes? This site’s in rather a rural part of the country, so visitors have access to pretty parks, historic market towns and attractive architecture set in the middle of leafy countryside. If it’s … Read more
  • When can I check in and check out of Torworth Lakes?
    RV, travel trailer and tent sites
    Arrive:  2 p.m. –  9 p.m.
    Depart by:  11 a.m.
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  • How much does it cost to stay at Torworth Lakes? From $32.95 (for 1 night, 4 people) - prices may change depending on your dates and party.