Camping Field

CAMPING
The site is open between Easter and the end of September. Your group will be allocated a site about three weeks prior to your visit and it's important you set up within the site allocated, as the other sites will have been allocated to groups arriving later. When booking please state the number of tents and campers as this helps us to provide you with the best site. Sites are generally allocated on the size of your group, but, as we're wonderful people, we also try to accommodate special requests. To ensure the best possible camping experience for everyone, we restrict the number of groups camping to four at any one time. We also allocate your site by email three weeks prior to your visit. If you don't check your map and subsequently set up in the wrong place you will be asked to move...

Really useful tip 1...

Our busiest camping weeks are the last in July and the first in August, and these, therefore, become booked up very early, since we restrict the total number of camping groups to four at any one time. However, the remaining weeks in August are sometimes very quiet, and your group can often expect to have some twelve or twenty acres to itself, camping at that time. Recently, some groups have started holding their week long camps at Whit, when the weather is generally kind, the insect life non-existent and the site virtually empty.

Cornel Blanket Badge - New!

In response to many requests, and as we approach our 40th birthday, Cornel has now introduced its very own Blanket Badge

These are on sale at £1.00 each when you make your booking. Please indicate quantity on the booking form. They will be available for collection from the keyholder, when you pick up your keys for Cornel. If, however, you need them posted before the camp, there will be a very small P & P charge.

Really useful tip 2...

We've noticed some groups ordering the blanket badges well before the camp, then issuing each camper with a 'camp neckerchief', with the badges ironed on, as a souvenir.

Cub Scouts

Cornel is perfect for district cub camps, and ideally suited for group cub camps.

Pioneering

We maintain a supply of pioneering poles - 15' and 20' - which are available for use. Currently, Cornel only supplies poles and not ropes nor blocks. If you're intending to use these, please mention it at the time of booking so we can ensure there's an equitable distribution. Poles should be replaced on their stands which can be found beneath the trees between Cornel Way and the camping block.

Personal hygiene As the field is sometimes grazed by sheep please advise campers to wash their hands if they come into contact with sheep droppings, especially before handling food. Apologies if this is blindingly obvious.

Water Tap Is on the field by the gate into the site.

Camper shelter facilities

 

Campers have their own purpose built camping block, situated behind the main buildings. It comprises unisex toilets, fully enclosed showers, special needs facilities, covered washing up area, a large room doubling as a drying room and a wet weather room.

There's also a fridge and a freezer and a small, two hob electric cooker for emergency catering.

Electricity for wall heaters and the electric cooker is controlled by a £1 coin meter. Hot water for showers is included in your booking fee. Please emphasise to your groups that conservation of both water and gas is very important, particularly to Cornel, as we depend on streams which can run dry in extreme conditions.

It's the responsibility of all the groups in camp to keep the camp block clean. When there's more than one group in camp, groups are expected to work together and arrange a rota for cleaning so the camp block is kept clean and the 'fridges are left empty after groups have departed.

Really useful tip 3...

When you arrive at the camp, get to know the other groups in camp at the same time. It makes it much easier when working out whose turn it is to clean the camping block, or to retrieve lost items when the smaller ones leave 'em behind.

Full Site map and plans with campsites marked out

 

Gates

Please keep the field gate shut as sheep graze the field & we don't want them escaping, especially into the plantations of hardwoods we are cultivating. .

It's also important to keep the main gate from the road into Cornel closed at all times, since the public use the road and an open gate is often seen as an invitation by those on holiday.

Fires and cooking

Wood fires are encouraged but wood is - as everywhere - in short supply. Do not cut any live timber, either on the site or in surrounding woodlands. When making fireplaces, please cut turf and make the fires on the earth, so the fireplaces can be restored before you leave.