A carpark able to sopver by the river
Price: Free
Stay Again? Y
Why? Great walk to falls very quite and cheap
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Black Loch
Spent 2 nights here in the forestry carpark not picturesque but v.quiet and fishing in Loch
Delamere Forest CC&C
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Typical CC&C site, escorted to pitch, put on hardstanding by default, want payment whilst driving.
Facilities ok, showers look small.
Good location for dogwalks and forest access.
Near Railway line
Dalby Forest Live
Left for the trek to Dalby Forest on the Friday 26th June 2015, staying at South Moor Farm, Dalby Forest Drive, Langdale End, Scarborough, YO13 0LW, www.southmoorfarm.co.uk, 10.00pn. Journey was thankfully uneventful. The site was a sectioned off bit of a field full of cow pats, owners very friendly but facilities severely lacking.
Great views and great location if you like cycling or walking, but little else there.
The purpose of our stay was to see Paul Heaton and Jackie Abbot on the Saturday night at the forest live concert, sepnt the day relaxing and had a walk round a bit of the forest (small bit). In the evening had a BBQ and some drinks and then set off on the walk to the venue, about 1.5 miles. So not too bad.
Warm up act were OK, actually very good really, but not too memorable. Paul and Jackie were on form although left all the (Housemartins and Beautiful South) oldies right to the end for their encores. Really it was what 90% of the crowd wanted to hear all night, pisses me off that. Why not mix it up and play what the crowd wants as well as what the band together and then use the encore to play the tracks that went well!
Still fun walk back in the drak with cars leaving walking down an unlit road, with no pavement, torches saved our lives and allowed us to indicate displearure to tossers using full beam.
Rained in the morning, we left about 11am.
Ocknell, buried in the gorse.
Ocknell, booked on the Thursday, left 2:20pm on the friday, arrived and bedded in by 5pm, G&T sunk by 5:30, off for a dog walk. One more pre dinner G&T then a dinner of Chicken Kiev, Potato Croquettes and roasted veg, with cheese breads. Bottle of red, v.nice dog walk followed by Bread and Butter pudding with Vanilla Ice cream, satisfying day now finishing the red.
Ocknell very nice not crowded and it is a dry Bank Holiday.
Tomorrow we plan breakfast and a qalk to the Sir Walter Tyrell pub, 2.5 miles as the crow flies, expecting about 3.5 to be registered.
Couple have setup next to us ish, very large tent enourmous thing.
Picnic Cinema
Went to a Picnic Cinema show of Close Encounters of the Third Kind in Cannock Chase, at the Tackaroo forestry campsite.
The site was almost deserted when we turned up it is a heavily wooded area with lots of flat areas in amongst the tree, generally there is just water and waste available no other facilities. Â As the event was on that had provided portaloo toilets, which were mostly full and gross.
The show a song and dance act, quiz etc  started at about 7:30 and the film kicked off about 8:45pm, quite cold but no rain (thankfully).
A very enjoyable evening, for the right film we would do it again.
Bucketed down overnight, really pitied the people in tents (most were), we were the only MH, there was one caravan and a couple of Campervans.
Next morning we had the place to ourselves almost.