Country:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â England
Co-ordinates: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 54.29.4017N : 1.7.14199W
Address: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Woodhouse Farm, Little Ayton, Great Ayton TS9 6HZ
Good for visiting: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â (click for my relevant post) Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â North Yorks Moors, Â Â Middlesborough, Â Â Staithes, Saltburn, Whitby, Â North Yorks Steam Railway, Goathland (Aidensfield), Â Pickering, Â Helmsley, Â Roseberry Topping
Phone & e-mail: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 01642 723846 / 07709 711164
Website: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â http://www.fletchers-farm.co.uk/
Date Visited: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â September 2017
Questions:- (This review is from the point of view of motorhomers driving a Swift Kontiki 669 tag axle – 8.56m)
What are the pitches like?               Â
Grass pitches. Plenty big enough, but likely to get stuck if it rains! We managed to pull ourselves out using the little car 🙂 (If we hadn’t been able to we would have been pulled out with 1 of the farm’s tractors).
Is there water on each pitch?           Â
No – 1 tap but easy for a hose to reach as it’s centrally located
What is the electric like?          Â
16A– no problems at all
Drainage?    Â
Just 1 in the motorhome service point – for emptying by bucket.
What’s the site access like?       Â
Access is along some narrow lanes after you leave Great Ayton (which can be very busy itself, considering it’s size). Fletcher’s Farm is actually Woodhouse Farm (owned by the Fletcher’s..). It is on a dead end lane and the campsite is beyond the farm and the coffee shop.
What are the Sanitary facilities like? Â Â Â
Toilets:               Separate ladies and gents – 2 cubicles in each, plus a disabled loo. Facilities are shared with the coffee shop which opens Wednesday to Sunday from 9.30am until about 5pm
Toilet paper provided? Yes – plentiful
Showers: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 2 separate showers; large space – 1 of these though is limited as it is also used as a baby-change facility so has more furniture in it.
What other facilities are there?   Â
Bins and CWD
Dish washing area.
Coffee Shop (nice breakfast – very popular)
Farm shop, pottery and farm pets (a couple of pigs, sheep, goats, ducks and an independent turkey 🙂 )
Is there any internet; if so how much and how good? Â Â
There is no separate internet available. Â Good signal if you have your own.
What’s the welcome like?
Very friendly and efficient. Matt lives in the farmhouse near the old toilets.
How much is it?    Â
£20 per night including electric.
What’s the area like?           Â
Lovely. Lots of walking and lots of walkers passing the site, heading either up to Captain Cook’s monument or to Great Ayton Station
Great Ayton is lovely itself, as is Stokesley a little further away. The coast isn’t far – you can visit Whitby, Runswick, Staithes, Saltburn on Sea and Redcar.
We also visited Helmsley, Goathland and Middlesborough (to cross the Tees on the transporter bridge)
More detail:
We liked:-
The area
The facilities
The welcome
The walks
We didn’t like so much:-
The rain! But that is not, of course, the campsite’s fault 🙂
1 little thing – the automatic lights in the ladies go off too soon, and can only be reactivated just inside the main door. And it’s dark in there! I started using the disabled toilet in the end 🙂
We hated:-
Nothing
Moving On:
We moved on to Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland
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