Northdown Farm

When we arrived it seemed like we had the whole field to ourselves, there was so much space that some people asked us if they were even on the right campsite. Loads of space for flying kites & other games & the kids enjoyed playing with our kids in the hay bales in th centre of each field. The composting toilets were some of the cleanest i’ve ever used & were cleaned & restocked with loo roll every day, which only really became necessary when the site became busy on August Bank holiday. We had tonnes of space, seclusion & privacy for at least the 1st week of our holiday & plenty of space for our friends to camp with us when they arrrived. The washing sinks have a gas canister and hot water anytime & the similarly gas heated showers were absolutely lovely. Very close to Weymouth & plenty of shops & supermarkets, near other beaches such as Eweleaze farm, Bowleaze Cove, & Durdle Door. Campfires are allowed anywhere in the fields & this is really important for us on our camping holidays, we had a lovely fire every night. The improvements I wld recommend are: Some kind of soap & water hand washing facilities closer to each toilet, or at least antibac gel in the toilet cubicles for a bit more hygiene. Maybe more signage to explain that you are in the correct campsite & to point you down the right track on arrival, some kind of explanation by sign or email or arrival that facilities such as shop & firewood are available for Eweleaze Farm campsite down the road. The campsite is 2mins Walk away (across fields) from a really good and large pub with a kids play area, serving a wide range of food and drinks up til 9pm, very child & dog friendly. We camped quite close to the pub which meant that when they were hosting events & Live music this was quite loud at our tent. But you could camp in the more remote fields of the site & this be further from this. During August 2018 there was also a building site quite close to the pub which meant that there was noise from this & the builders did also have bonfires on a couple of days where they burned plastic, my partner went round & had a word with them, we didn’t report them as we were busy enjoying our holiday! The campsite went from being almost completely empty to totally packed on the August bank holiday, i’m not even sure that the 2 x toilets per field were enough to cope with this number of people! Also the site is marketed towards groups wanting to camp together due to the large amount of free space and completely unmarked pitched, this obviously meant that some of the groups were having parties & stayed up late into the night playing music or singing, but this only happened on 1 or 2 nights of our stay. All in all it’s a great campsite & i’d def consider staying there again. :)

Large site spread over several fields. Some large groups so tended to be noisy some nights, but possible to pitch well away. Facilities good with hot showers and hot water at sinks. Compost toilets good but sometimes subject to queuing.