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| YOUR CHOSEN PARK IS ... LONGNOR WOOD HOLIDAY PARK | CONTACT DETAILS | |||
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| Awards: | Number of Pitches: 47 | View Park Video |
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Open Season: 1 Mar - 10 Jan 2011 |
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| Longnor Wood Holiday Park is a select, friendly adult touring park situated in the ‘heart’ of the Peak District National Park. Surrounded by rolling farmland and woodlands, Lognor Wood is very peaceful, yet convenient for the many attractions and charming villages in the Peak District and Derbyshire. Debbie and John offer you a warm welcome and a long list of guest facilities for you to relax, unwind and enjoy the ‘heart’ in the Peak District. | ||||
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Park Facilities Caravan and motorhome pitches are spacious hardstandings with standard electric hook-up or fully serviced; some with TV hook-up. We do not charge extra for awnings and there are picnic benches for you to sit out and enjoy the scenery. A camping field is available for tents. Our heated facilities building is divided into ladies and gents privacy cubicles each with shower, wash hand basin and WC. Showers are free. Guest reviews refer to our facilities as some of the cleanest and nicest they have found on a touring caravan park. A freezer and microwave is provided for guests in the washing-up area as well as a fully equipped laundry. |
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You can obtain essential grocery, caravan items and gas from our on-site shop or drive into Longnor village just over a mile away. There you will find a general store, a Post Office, a selection of resturants, real ale pubs and a fish and chip shop. Friendly dogs are welcome at Longnor Wood; you can bring two free of charge. They can exercise over four acres of recreation field. For you there is badminton, putting and boules. Conservation and protecting the wildlife you will see around Longnor Wood is very important.to us, as well as our reputation for friendly and helpful staff.. Do visit us soon, you will soon see why Longnor Wood Holiday Park is the ‘heart’ in the beautiful Peak District. |
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Whats on nearby Longnor Wood is convenient for walking, cycle trails, river dales and the Peak District towns and villages. There’s also fishing and golf nearby. The cobbled market square in Longnor village, made famous by the TV series,‘Peak Practice’, is the start for many scenic walks. Millers Dale, Monsal Dale and Dove Dale offer excellent riverside walking along deep valleys. The Tissington and High Peak trails are trackbed cycle routes over open countryside with wonderful views from the bridges and viaducts of the former railway. Subterranean streams have created spectacular caverns, there’s Poole’s Cavern near Buxton and Peak and Speedwell Caverns at Castleton, also famous for it’s Blue John mines. |
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Each of the towns and villages have individual characters, Flash, a few miles from Longnor, is the highest village in the Peak District. Buxton is an elegant spa town, good for shopping and entertainment, whilst Bakewell is a quaint market town on the River Wye. Further down the Dove valley is the resort town of Matlock Bath and the heights of Abraham. Hadden Hall and Chatsworth House are within an enjoyable hour’s drive. We cannot do justice to all the wonderful places and scenery here. Hopefully it is enough for you to want to visit Longnor Wood and experience the ‘heart’ of the Peak District’ for yourself. |
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Finding Us 1. From the South West: From Leek, take the A53 towards Buxton. About 2½ miles past Blackshaw Moor take the right hand turn signposted ‘Longnor 4½ miles’ immediately after the ‘Winking Man’ pub. In 3½ miles, turn right at the brown caravan park sign. Immediately turn right again and follow to the park. 2. From the South East: From Ashbourne take the A515 towards Buxton. After 19 miles, turn left onto the B5053 by a large bookstore. Follow this road into Longnor and turn right at cross roads (brown caravan sign 1¼ miles). Turn left after 1¼ miles, then turn immediately right to the park. 3. From the North West: From Buxton take the A515 towards Ashbourne. After 3 miles turn right onto the B5053 by the large bookstore. Continue as (2) above. 4. From the North East: From Bakewell take the A6 towards Buxton. In 8 miles, turn left on to the A5270. At crossroads, go straight across onto the B5053 by large bookstore. Continue as (2) above. |
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| Special Notes Arrive 2pm to 9pm March to September and 2pm to 7pm October to January, no earlier. Departures are 12 noon, this is to avoid difficulties on narrow roads. |
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