Post by Sorento 08 on Mar 26, 2022 21:33:17 GMT
The Orchard Caravan Site
Locko Lane Farm,
Locko Lane,
Chesterfield,
S45 8AW
Date visited – March 2022
Unit - Car/Caravan or Motor-home
Price per night - £18.00 incl
This is a Caravan Club CL (members only)
Access into the site is quite tight so you need to approach with some care as you will need to make a right turn to the entrance. The site entrance gates are set at an angle to the road into the field allowing car/caravan or Motor-home to get off the road. Pitch allocation is shown on a board at the gates; the owner asks that you drive straight to your pitch without stopping on the slight grass incline.
The site has 5 good sized hard standing pitches all have individual EHU and mains water taps large enough to have car, caravan and awning, no drive over facilities for motor-homes to discharge their waste tanks, only an empty drain near to the information hut and spare grass pitch. Pitches 3, 4 & 5 can run pipes to the edge of the field, but pitches 1 & 2 will need to use waste water containers. Each pitch has views. We needed levelling blocks on pitch 3. No WC or showers on site so you will need to use your own on-board facilities, chemical disposal and re-cycling bins are on site, these are near to the entrance gate.
No dog walks facilities on site but can be exercised on the public footpath adjacent over 2 styles. If you are into walking, this site is ideal, as the Five Pit Trail is only 15mins away via the fields or approx 10mins by the road.
Just to reiterate, this is a working farm, we were woken each morning at 05.00 by tractors loading their slurry tanks for muck spreading, and also clearing out the cow sheds, maybe this is less of a problem when the cattle are out on the fields. We found the road noise was also a problem with the “boy racers” this did eventually calm down as did the tractor noise towards evening.
The Shoulder at Hardstoft is open most of the day and serves very nice food we were told their Sunday lunches are very nice too but when we asked to book a table the earliest time was 3.45pm, too late for us so did not bother, so if you do want to go there, book earlier.
Places worth a visit are National Trust Hardwick Hall and Chesterfield for its Crooked Spire Church.
As we had paid our visit by BACS on the day of arrival we never saw the owners during our 8 nights stay, only managed to speak to them by phone, which we found strange.
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Aerial View of Site
Site Layout
Site Entrance
Locko Lane Farm,
Locko Lane,
Chesterfield,
S45 8AW
Date visited – March 2022
Unit - Car/Caravan or Motor-home
Price per night - £18.00 incl
This is a Caravan Club CL (members only)
Access into the site is quite tight so you need to approach with some care as you will need to make a right turn to the entrance. The site entrance gates are set at an angle to the road into the field allowing car/caravan or Motor-home to get off the road. Pitch allocation is shown on a board at the gates; the owner asks that you drive straight to your pitch without stopping on the slight grass incline.
The site has 5 good sized hard standing pitches all have individual EHU and mains water taps large enough to have car, caravan and awning, no drive over facilities for motor-homes to discharge their waste tanks, only an empty drain near to the information hut and spare grass pitch. Pitches 3, 4 & 5 can run pipes to the edge of the field, but pitches 1 & 2 will need to use waste water containers. Each pitch has views. We needed levelling blocks on pitch 3. No WC or showers on site so you will need to use your own on-board facilities, chemical disposal and re-cycling bins are on site, these are near to the entrance gate.
No dog walks facilities on site but can be exercised on the public footpath adjacent over 2 styles. If you are into walking, this site is ideal, as the Five Pit Trail is only 15mins away via the fields or approx 10mins by the road.
Just to reiterate, this is a working farm, we were woken each morning at 05.00 by tractors loading their slurry tanks for muck spreading, and also clearing out the cow sheds, maybe this is less of a problem when the cattle are out on the fields. We found the road noise was also a problem with the “boy racers” this did eventually calm down as did the tractor noise towards evening.
The Shoulder at Hardstoft is open most of the day and serves very nice food we were told their Sunday lunches are very nice too but when we asked to book a table the earliest time was 3.45pm, too late for us so did not bother, so if you do want to go there, book earlier.
Places worth a visit are National Trust Hardwick Hall and Chesterfield for its Crooked Spire Church.
As we had paid our visit by BACS on the day of arrival we never saw the owners during our 8 nights stay, only managed to speak to them by phone, which we found strange.
Please click on the photos to enlarge (this will open the photo on another page) Thanks for looking.
Aerial View of Site
Site Layout
Site Entrance
