This is a site review for all you fellow WHOOFs as in We Have Our Own Facilities, however if you are of a nervous disposition read no further. The access roads from East Hoathly to the Caravan Club Site [members only] are not for the faint hearted as they are extremely narrow in places with stretches without passing places. If you should meet another caravan coming the other way one of you would have to reverse. As I said, not for the faint hearted, but the brave get their own rewards in a completely unspoilt peaceful site in the middle of beautiful countryside.
It is a site of two halves. On entering the site you drive around one of the biggest grass areas with nothing on that I have ever seen on a caravan site. I lie; there is a boules court, but nothing else as all the caravans are parked on the grass or hardstandings on the other side of the site road. This means that you have a huge expanse of uninterrupted view in front of every pitch and each pitch is in full sunshine if the weather is kind to you. The other half is in the woods with a few individual pitches where you are completely on your own, or pitched to-gether in sun dappled glades under the trees, surrounded by bird song and bluebells in May.
This is walking, gardening and National Trust countryside with so much to do it is difficult to know where to begin. Eastbourne with its shingle beach and shops is fifteen miles away. Just along from Eastbourne is the dramatic Beachy Head with its white cliffs and beautiful rural views inland across the Sussex countryside.
National Trust owned Wakehurst Place gardens are seventeen miles away. The 530 acres are a mixture of formal, water garden and wooded valleys where you can walk for a couple of hours. Kew now have their famous seed bank at Wakehurst and you can tour round and see the conservation and preservation work being undertaken. Another day and another garden at Sheffield Park which is also National Trust owned. Here the gardens are equally as beautiful but quite different. They were landscaped by Capability Brown and are formed round a centre piece of four lakes.
Tourist honey pot Alfriston is eleven miles away and a must for all National Trust members as here is the first acquisition of the Trust, The Clergy House, bought ten days after the Trust was first formed. It has a rare chalk and milk formed floor in the hall and a fascinating history having only had three owners since it was first built six hundred years ago. This can be followed by a pleasant walk by the river Cuckmere to work up an appetite for a cream tea served in the hotel which first changed its landlord in 1397.
This is a site review for all you fellow WHOOFs as in We Have Our Own Facilities, however if you are of a nervous disposition read no further. The access roads from East Hoathly to the Caravan Club Site [members only] are not for the faint hearted as they are extremely narrow in places with stretches without passing places. If you should meet another caravan coming the other way one of you would have to reverse. As I said, not for the faint hearted, but the brave get their own rewards in a completely unspoilt peaceful site in the middle of beautiful countryside.
It is a site of two halves. On entering the site you drive around one of the biggest grass areas with nothing on that I have ever seen on a caravan site. I lie; there is a boules court, but nothing else as all the caravans are parked on the grass or hardstandings on the other side of the site road. This means that you have a huge expanse of uninterrupted view in front of every pitch and each pitch is in full sunshine if the weather is kind to you. The other half is in the woods with a few individual pitches where you are completely on your own, or pitched to-gether in sun dappled glades under the trees, surrounded by bird song and bluebells in May.
This is walking, gardening and National Trust countryside with so much to do it is difficult to know where to begin. Eastbourne with its shingle beach and shops is fifteen miles away. Just along from Eastbourne is the dramatic Beachy Head with its white cliffs and beautiful rural views inland across the Sussex countryside.
Tourist honey pot Alfriston is eleven miles away and a must for all National Trust members as here is the first acquisition of the Trust, The Clergy House, bought ten days after the Trust was first formed. It has a rare chalk and milk formed floor in the hall and a fascinating history having only had three owners since it was first built six hundred years ago. This can be followed by a pleasant walk by the river Cuckmere to work up an appetite for a cream tea served in the hotel which first changed its landlord in 1397. 