Chiplands Certificated Site

Campfires are permitted at Chiplands Certificated Site, and for a good number of its campers that single fact is the reason to come. The pitch is grass at Church Knowle on Dorset's Isle of Purbeck, out on the Tyneham road roughly 2.5 miles from Corfe Castle, and it is run on back to basics lines by the Camping and Caravanning Club. Certificated Site rules mean five caravans or motorhomes at most, plus tents, with Club membership needed to book. Electric hook up does not exist here, the pitches being grass only, and the facilities amount to toilets and wash basins, so showers and an on site shop are things to arrange elsewhere. Dogs are welcome. Setting is what Chiplands trades on: it lies beyond the village on the lane heading for Kimmeridge and Tyneham, the Purbeck Ridgeway is walkable straight from the gate, and The New Inn at Church Knowle is a short stroll off. Reckon on seven minutes in the car to Corfe Castle village and twenty or so to Swanage, so a car earns its keep in this part of Dorset. Opening runs April to the end of October, and booking goes through the site manager rather than any online system.