This is a wonderful site.  It's nestled in the forests of Cannock Chase, south of Rugeley.

 

 

 

 

Being a C&CC site, it's a mixture of hardstandings and grass, with or without electricity.  I had what's probably the best pitch, opposite reception overlooking the rest of the site.  Reception itself (pictured right) has a nordic feel about it, being a wooden lodge.  The site management team were exceptionally friendly, living up to "the friendly club" marketing strapline.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The showerblock (pictured left) does the job, and again is housed in a wooden building.  The facilities are perhaps a little dated - there's something about a showertray inset into the floor rather than the more modern wetroom design - but perfectly functional and clean.  Showers are of the fixed-head variety, but at least adjustable for temperature and not of the dreaded pushbutton variety.

 

Note that mobile coverage was dodgy.  Vodafone seemed about the best.

 

 

 

 

 

 

There's a bit of traffic noise from the adjacent road, but nothing too bad (I noticed it more on a weekday than at weekend).  There's an adjacent smallholding that has geese and I think (by the sound of it) a peacock...definitely noisy.

 

The nearest supermarkets are Rugeley (down a 1:10 hill, not a fun return if you're on a bike); turn right out of the site and there's a mini-mart about a mile and a half down the hill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At one side of the site is a gate marked "dog walk".  Somebody's obviously got a sense of humour - it leads into 26 square miles of forest.  So undoubtedly it's the best dogwalk there is; similar to fellow C&CC site Delamere Forest, but unlike there, the paths from the site don't look like they'd turn into a quagmire at the first drop of rain.  Rudy and Bonnie approve!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Would we go back?  Definitely.

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 Blackwall Plantation CC (34 miles)

Chapel Lane CC (39 miles)

Leek C&CC (43 miles)