Best campsites for the Cranborne Chase AONB
Here is our pick of the Alan Rogers Assessors, expert-recommended campsites for the Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty offers magnificent landscapes and superb outdoor activities, making it popular with cyclists, walkers and horse riders. Humans are known to have settled here since 8,000 BC, long before Cranborne Chase was created as a royal hunting forest in the time of William the Conqueror. Situated southeast of Stafford, it comprises heathland, deciduous woodland, conifer plantations and small lakes and is the smallest AONB with just 26 square miles. There are three local nature reserves, 21 wildlife sites and some 20% of the AONB is also designated as SSI (Sites of Special Scientific Interest).
Highlights include the Heart of England Way and the Staffordshire Way, waymarked trails that lead through sublime unspoilt scenery. Look out for resident wildlife, including fallow deer and endangered birdlife like the nightjar. Places of historical interest include Shugborough Hall and the remnants of Castle Ring, an Iron Age hill fort on the highest point in the AONB.
Top Cranborne Chase AONB Camping Options
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2019
Longleat Caravan and Motorhome Club site in Warminster is in one of the network's most unique locations - where else in the UK or Europe...
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2018
Stonehenge Campsite & Glamping Pods is a small, very attractive family run park tucked away in the beautiful Wiltshire countryside, yet with easy access to...
A touring park with outstanding views over the Chalke Valley, Coombe is adjacent to Salisbury racecourse. There are 100 spacious pitches all on level, well...
This campsite is now permanently closed.
This mature, well maintained site is set in 40 acres of beautiful countryside on the Dorset and Hampshire border. There are 95 touring pitches 2...
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2022
The Inside Park Touring Caravan & Camping Park is set in the grounds of an 18th-century country house that burned down in 1941. Family owned...