Sherwood Forest Holiday Park

My brother, only two weeks after purchasing his caravan, located this site, and so off we went for a quiet weekend in late September. Not only was the sun out for the weekend, but so too were the celebrities, who also had come out to play.

Our first guest was none other than diva Celine Dion. Sherwood Forest Holiday Park, is a particular favourite of hers. She told us that when you are on the site you really get the feeling that you are away from it all, but, if you should require it you are only a stone throw away from the designer shops and outfitters of Worksop and Rotherham. She also commented that the sites shop was one of the best traders of caravan and camping accessories that she knew of, and boasted that the Leisure Battery she had purchased was at least a good £5 cheaper than any local caravan dealers price. 

Here we have Julie Goodyear picking her pitch by the side of one of the streams that flow through the site. She must have been sweating cobs in that coat, and it seemed a little out of place with the fishing waders that she was wearing. Keen fisherwoman, Julie, like Celine, also loves this site, not only for it's natural beauty but for its many places to fish. You have a choice of pitching up in many places, in this rather large, but very uncommercialised site, most of which are by water. There is a lovely lake, complete with swans and ducks that many choose to pitch around, an area of fast flowing water, and for the serious fishermen and women, an area adjacent to a river. However, Julie opted to a pitch near us where this stretch of crystal clear water, and sandy bed was only a few inches deep, so the kids could splash and play in it in their little inflatable boats. Thanks for the loan of the foot pump Julie. 

Here, pictured pointing to my brothers Ace Ambassador is club owner, Brian Potter, taking a weekend break from his Phoenix Club to visit this campsite. He was in raptures about the site, especially the price, a bargain at £12 a night, and he opted like many others to leave his caravan where it was for £1 a night until he returned again the following weekend. He commented that I was pitched a little close to my brothers van, but I pointed it out, that this was done deliberately, as it was my first successful reverse of the caravan and I wasn't going to do it again for the sake of eight feet or so.

Next to pull onto the site was Justin Timberlake. He had been recommended this site as an ideal base to explore Sherwood Forest and to visit Major Oak, with its Robin Hood connections. However, he secretly admitted to me, that his real reason for choosing the site was that it was only five mile or so from the popular Sunday Thoresby Market, as he was desperately in need of a new socket set, after trying to raise his stabilizer using only an adjustable spanner, and he knew that Thorseby market would be just the place for to purchase a bargain.

Like Julie Goodyear, Tara Palmer Tompkinson made a bee line for an electric hook up by the side of the stream. We did have a chuckle watching her attempt to put up her awning wearing such bizarre head gear, but she managed it in the end, slave to fashion that she is. She commented, that even though the toilet facilities were quite old, they were spotlessly clean. This was quite a boon as she refused to use the shower in her own caravan, as she thought it may encourage damp. She was quite excited as she had found out that the site had a bingo hour in a games room most evenings, and which was held outside if the weather was nice. It was take your own booze, so she raided her cars boot, found a litre bottle of Liebfraumilche, and off she went.

Snapped here, just after finishing feeding the ducks and swans is little Leonardo Di Caprio. He had arranged a rally upon this site, to gather together all the cast and crew of the epic blockbuster, Titanic, which, coincidentally, was filmed in this very campsite, with the lake doubling as the Atlantic Ocean, the iceberg was just a lump of polystyrene. It's all done with very clever digital editing on a computer he told me, but I had no idea what he was talking about!

This is definitely a site to return to, and, on the subject of rallies they have a very popular Halloween and Bonfire weekend, which gets booked up very quickly with regulars who have been going for years. Why not book your place for this year, who knows who you may meet?