Closest thing to wild camping

No toilet facilities

Beautiful site, lots of woodland around for cycling and walks, with or without dogs.
Lots of spaces hardstanding and grass to pick choice. This was the best thing about it.
Water points and waste areas kept clean and tidy and near, depending where you decide to pitch. I
liked that you were left to it, but surprised as email suggested otherwise I.e wardens would check on you and provide litter bag?

Grass was long on arrival, I was somewhat surprised by this. The ground was also very hard so you do need proper tent stakes, cheap metal ones won't work, ignore my warning and you will find out the hard way.

Your paying for the location. There is no toilet and no shower as stated. Make sure you have camp toilet and means to wash yourself for personal hygiene. Take black bags.
I liked the site, it was just what I needed in terms of quietness and walks.

I went as a solo female, no dog or person with me. I would say, I was weary initially as it is rather a huge site, but there were other campers on site so felt fairly relaxed, as a lot of coming and going by non campers that walked through or cycled through the site. I counted about 7 campers on arrival that went down to roughly 5, very friendly. So felt OK, easy to spot them also in eye view. Still carry panic alarm just in case as lots of non campers on bikes or walking through. Not at night thankfully just in daylight.

4 stars for location
3 stars for facilities
5 stars for pitch options
2.5 stars for security

Would I come again, yes, but only for an overnight stay as prefer smaller more secure sites with cameras, wardens or owner presence around, not to be pestered but at least greeted once on arrival.

No wardens around over the two days that I could see to give bag as indicated by their personal email. I only heard the grass cutter arrive very early at AM on day 2 of my stay. Very early, the grass 100% needed cutting, but I was surprised that no email went out to those to advise those like myself or poster at entrance to warn campers about the noise that continued for hours on the .

Lovely forest area felt like wild camping
Water and waste areas not too far away but far enough away to keep the wild camping feel

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The lovely open camping area amongst the pine trees, where you could choose where you wanted to pitch.
There's no marked pitches, which is great.
Warden was very welcoming.
When we stayed (midweek in July) there was only 4 other vans. We could only see 2 from our pitch.

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Great site lovely and quiet and feels great to be camping amongst the trees. As it states on the website only water and chemical toilet facilities are available - not showers or toilets - but so long as you know that and don't mind as we didn't this site is perfect. The dog loved it and was able to go off lead on the walks and our son (3y/o) thought it was great to be allowed to play on his bike around the van while we watched on as it was so quiet and safe :-) Also really convenient for Go Ape and the Cannock Chase Trails. Couldn't rate the wifi as i didn't use it but 4g and 5g picked up great.

What's not to like? Will definitley visit again!

Loved the whole place.. simply beautiful

Would like one compost toilet

Love this camp site , although no facilities , it’s peaceful, you can have lovely walks , cycling etc

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Being amongst the trees in a beautiful tranquil setting.
Clean facilities
Friendly wardens
Beautiful, peaceful site

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Excellent location, well maintained, nice and quiet

Lack of toilets wasn't mentioned on the booking page

Absolutely stunning site, extremely clean with great walks and bike tracks, we walked to the Horns pub which is close by and worth a visit

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