Best campsites for leaving the van parked up

[Silky]

Once I'm pitched up on site it's a real bugger when you realise you've forgotten the milk and there's no shop on site...

I suspect it doesn't exist but does anyone know of an index of campsites where there are amenities (village/ town / pub / pub/ pub etc) within easy walking distance so you can forget about the van ?

Silky

[horns]

Get a bike rack?

[Cruz]

Everytime I camp I always look for a pub within walking distance and a good long walk that can be started from the site.

I just use online ordnance survey maps and google to find out the information

[Silky]

Get a bike rack?

It's more for when I'm with kids and Cocker to be honest, my youngest isn't the most confident on a bike.

UKCampsite has a good search facility with lots of criteria you can choose - except this one. Even when we camped in a tent I preferred not to bother with the car once parked up.

Silky

[ghost123uk]

Good point this, that "shopping run to the village" is often a time consuming pain in the butt.

We often wonder why more of the bigger campsites don't have a little shop (I know some do) that sells all the basics along with BBQ fuel etc.

Also many rural areas have a mobile shop, but I have yet to see one pull up at a campsite, where I would have thought they would do a roaring trade ? This does happen at an annual model aircraft "do" I go to in Grantham, and it is a very busy shop when it arrives).

[dsa]

Keswick c&cc site 5 min walk into town,bus stop and supermarket

[Madfish]

If you are travelling to North Norfolk you could do a lot worse than camping at Burnham Deepdale http://www.deepdalefarm.co.uk/. Dog friendly, small supermarket and a very decent cafe two minutes away, great walks coastal, good pubs - one only three minutes away, clean facilities and a bus stop for either Hunstanton or Brancaster. This genuinely is a lock-up and leave place and I love it!

Di