New Forest View

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Beautiful scenery (added by manager 12 Aug 2022)
Lovely evening by the pond (added by manager 12 aug 2022)
Welcome (added by manager 22 jul 2020)
Park entrance (added by manager 19 apr 2021)

  • Small site with fishing lake next to an 18th-century coaching inn
  • Within a half-hour drive of Drayton Manor, Snowdome and Twycross Zoo
  • A 40-minute drive from Birmingham's Cadbury World and Science Museum
The first sight for many folk arriving at New Forest View is a bear. Don’t bolt… he’s called Bosworth (after the famed 15th-century battlefield nearby)… and he doesn’t move. Which is a bit of a shame for him, for there's a hefty spread of activities and attractions in the surrounding heart of England counties of Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Staffordshire and beyond, from forest walks and wildlife encounters to winter sports, fishing and waterskiing. Get cracking right on site, as this small Leicestershire park for touring vehicles has its own fishing pond, bookable in advance. Next door, the coaching inn has been welcoming thirsty and hungry travellers for four centuries, with real ales, bar snacks and restaurant meals, regular Chinese and Indian carvery nights and a beer garden with a kids’ play area (which might not have been there four centuries ago…). For true fishing aficionados, there are further carp to be caught a five-minute drive away at Tucker’s Holt, and at Kingsbury Waterpark (half an hour). The latter makes a decent destination for non-anglers as well, with walks, cycle trails and birdwatching, plus waterskiing and jetskiing on the lakes. Dogs are welcome on this site.

Site type

Tent pitches 5
Touring caravan pitches 25
Motorhome pitches 25
Open now
Opens 5 June
Please note
  • Your dog must be tattooed or microchipped.
  • The site does not accept breeds/crossbreeds listed in the Dangerous Dogs Act (i.e. XL Bully, Pit Bull Terrier, Japanese Tosa, Dogo Argentino, and Fila Brasileiro) and/or any of the following: Staffordshire bull terrier, American Staffordshire terrier, Rottweiler, any Mastiff or Tosa.
  • Group bookings of 15 or more units (e.g. tent, touring caravan, motorhome or accommodation hire) travelling together are not permitted via Pitchup.com.
  • Single-sex bookings of 4 or more people (excluding couples) are not permitted via Pitchup.com.
  • No hen/stag parties permitted via Pitchup.com.
  • A charge of £1,00 (R24,12) applies for the use of the shower.
  • Facilities/activities including fishing are subject to extra charges payable on arrival.
  • Commercial vehicles (vehicles used for work-related purposes, carrying goods or fare-paying passengers) and sign-written vehicles are not permitted on site.
  • At least one of the party members must be aged 18 or over.
  • Units longer than 10 metres are not allowed.
  • The charging of electric vehicles is not permitted on site.
  • Please note the showers are coin-operated.

Languages spoken

English

Open from Wed, 05 Jun to

Pitch types & availability

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Only showing reviews for the last 30 months.

Great for food and a nice spot to stay.

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

Electric gravel touring pitch

Liked: Lovely welcome from a very kind warden. Gated and secure area helping you to sleep soundly. Nice wide pitch. Our friends had the pitch next to us as requested. Adjoining pub is reasonably priced and the food was quite acceptable.

Disliked: Toilets were messy and smelled bad. More an observation of animals who cant toilet decently than maintenance which could have been recently done for all I knew. Fishing is OK for kids but nothing to really interest a serious angler.

Recommend to friends Visit again

If we're in the area again we would definately chose this site

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

Electric grass pitch

Liked: Nice big pitches,lovely clean site and the host was very nice,also there was a pub next door 🙂

Disliked: Nothing

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Pleasant site

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

Electric gravel touring pitch

Liked: Clean Helpful Friendly Large spaces

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Lovely site wardens couldn’t do enough for you great with the children…

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

Electric hardstanding and grass touring pitch

Liked: Lovely site wardens couldn’t do enough for you great with the children nicely kept sight our grandchildren had a great time

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Overall a good site, friendly and clean but needs more facilities

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

Electric grass pitch

Liked: Warm welcome and spotless site, nice big pitch. Pub next door which was a nice little bonus

Disliked: Toilet and shower block very small considering the cost per night and having to pay for shower (only 1 shower)

Recommend to friends Visit again

Lovely site staff friendly and helpful

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

Electric hardstanding and grass touring pitch

Liked: Beautiful countryside location pitches around central pond lovely walks for the dog quiet and peaceful

Disliked: Shower/washing facilities could do with upgrading

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Lovely clean site and Wayne was very welcoming .

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

Electric hardstanding and grass touring pitch

Liked: Everything what we needed for 2 nights .

Disliked: Nothing. !

Recommend to friends Visit again

Wayne was so helpful and accommodating. He even knocked to let us…

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

Electric grass pitch

Liked: Wayne was so helpful and accommodating. He even knocked to let us know that the band in the pub next door had turned up. A great time was had.

Recommend to friends Visit again

Super friendly warden

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

Electric hardstanding and grass touring pitch

Liked: We liked everything Wayne the warden was so helpful even reversed our caravan into place

Disliked: Nothing

Recommend to friends Visit again

Spotlessly clean

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
Anonymous The reviewer booked through Pitchup.com

Electric grass pitch

Liked: Lovely location . Great sized pitches . Immaculately maintained and clean. Really handy pub adjacent to the campsite serving good food .

Disliked: Nothing .

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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 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 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 Chemical disposal Electric car charging point(s) Gas cylinders available Recycling available Renewable energy

Nearby amenities

Bar nearby Dog walk nearby Shop nearby

Type

Medium (26-50 pitches)

Accessibility

Disabled facilities

Nearby leisure

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

Touring and motorhomes

Seasonal pitches

Location

New Forest View

Bosworth Road

Snarestone

Leicestershire

England

DE12 7DQ

Directions

Timezone

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

GPS

52.6855°N
-1.47373°W

Route directions

If you're travelling from the M42 (Measham direction) and using a satnav, the site is quarter of a mile past the spot where the postcode says, on the right hand side next door to the Old Crown pub.

Nearest transport

Coach
6.8 km Market Street
8 km Memorial Square
8.1 km Memorial Square
Rail
11.4 km Polesworth Rail Station
13 km Atherstone Rail Station
15.3 km Tamworth High Level Rail Station
Airport
18.5 km East Midlands Airport
31.2 km Birmingham International Airport Terminal 1
31.2 km Birmingham 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

To learn more about Bosworth and its battle, you could steam over there in suitably historic style, taking a vintage train ride from Shackerstone (10 minutes’ drive), or if you prefer 21st-century transport, the Battlefield Heritage Centre is 20 minutes away. For the thrills of the battlefield without the other bits, Drayton Manor Theme Park has all manner of white-knuckle adventure rides, or you could hit the icy slopes of the year-round indoor Tamworth Snowdrome (both half an hour away). Warm up afterwards with a trip round the spicy eateries of Birmingham’s Balti Triangle, topped off by sticky sweet chocolate factory tours at Cadbury World and experimental missions at the city’s Thinktank Science Museum (40 minutes). How wild do you like your wildlife? Twyford Zoo (10 minutes) has tarantulas and snow leopards; there’s a riot of feathered colours flapping about at Tropical Birdland (20 minutes), and wooded walks with those cute South American camelids at National Forest Llama Treks are within half an hour. It’s a 15-minute trip to see the early stages of the New National Forest, and there’s bike hire at the Youth Hostel if you want to see the saplings from the saddle. More mature woodland, plus walks, horse riding and birdwatching can be sampled at Sence Valley Forest Park, 10 minutes’ drive away, or you can beetle over to Bradgate Park (half an hour) on Leicester’s outskirts, for gentle hills and Tudor history, deer herds and skylarks.

Must see

Twycross Zoo 5.4 km

National Forest 7.4 km

Conkers Discovery Centre 8.4 km

Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre 10.9 km

Calke Abbey 12.3 km

National Trust

Staunton Harold Church 10.7 km

Calke Abbey 13.2 km

Letocetum Roman Baths and Museum 26.1 km

Sudbury Hall and the National Trust Museum of Childhood 30 km

Kedleston Hall 30.6 km

Cycle routes

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

Other

Measham - Conkers - Moira Furnace 3.2 km

Shackerstone and The Ashby Canal 3.5 km

Shackerstone - Newton Burgoland - Snarestone - Shackerstone 3.6 km

Oakthorpe Willsley Circular 4.8 km

Sence Valley Forest Park 4.9 km

Local events

  • Bloodstock Open Air (Thursday, 8 August 2024 – Thursday, 8 August 2024)

    Swadlincote, England 16 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.

Want to know more about camping in Leicestershire?

  • Does New Forest View have a swimming pool? No View all features
  • Is New Forest View dog friendly? Yes View all features
  • What attractions are near New Forest View? To learn more about Bosworth and its battle, you could steam over there in suitably historic style, taking a vintage train ride from Shackerstone (10 minutes’ drive), or if you prefer 21st-century … Read more
  • When can I check in and check out of New Forest View?
    Camping and touring
    Arrive:  noon –  7 p.m.
    Depart by:  11 a.m.
    Read more
  • How much does it cost to stay at New Forest View? From R827.82 (for 1 night, 2 adults) - prices may change depending on your dates and party.