Oakdown Touring & Holiday Caravan Park

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  • Award-winning secluded park, family-run for over 40 years
  • Spacious pitches, dog walking area, playground and family golf course
  • Spotless warm amenities with free hot water
When a family spends forty years building their site to the highest standards, there might be an award. Or two. Or three. Or…OK, you get the picture... Developed by the Franks family over forty years from open meadowland to an award-winning secluded park, Oakdown Touring & Holiday Caravan Park at Sidmouth has been lauded with all sorts of accolades, including plenty of gongs for cleanliness, green credentials and even its spotless loos. The family's knowledge of what makes a campsite work is all over the park, like the sparkling clean showers, in warm shower blocks with lashings of free hot water and a free hairdryer in each; roomy pitches, playground with climbing frames and play tower, family golf course, maps and books of local walks available at reception, and a dedicated dog walking area on site for furry campers. For tuck, the Oakdown café sells tea, coffee and hot chocolate as well as freshly cooked breakfasts and toasty breakfast paninis, and there's also a shop with essentials, daily papers and camping stock. A supermarket to stock up at is five miles’ drive away, or the staff can recommend local pubs and restaurants if you’d rather let someone else do the cooking. When exploring off site, the Sidmouth Hopper bus runs from the park on a daily basis during season - and is free of charge too.

Site type

Caravans for hire 16
Tent pitches 25
Touring caravan pitches 25
Motorhome pitches 20
Lodges, cabins, pods or huts 7

Tourist board rating

Languages spoken

English

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Features

Leisure on site

Bar or club house

Cycle hire

Evening entertainment

Fishing

Fitness centre

Games room

Indoor swimming pool

Kids' club

On-site restaurant/cafe

Outdoor swimming pool

Play area

TV room

Take away

Tennis

Watersports

Amenities on site

Bath available

Car parking by pitch/unit

Composting toilet

Disabled facilities

Dog park

Drying room

Food shop

Free wifi

Ice pack freezing

Internet access

Launderette

Parent & baby washroom

Pick-up from public transport

Portable toilet

Pub toilets

Public telephone

Shower available

Toilet block

Washing-up area

Wifi

Groups welcome

Family friendly

Motorcycle friendly

Single-sex groups welcome

Student groups welcome

Rules

Barbecue provided

Barbecues allowed

Campfires allowed

Commercial vehicles allowed

Dogs allowed

Dogs allowed all year

Themes

Peaceful

Walkers' paradise

Utilities

Charging facilities

Chemical disposal

Electric car charging point(s)

Gas cylinders available

Recycling available

Renewable energy

Nearby amenities

Bar nearby

Dog walk nearby

Public transport nearby

Shop nearby

Type

Large (51-200 pitches)

Touring and motorhomes

Drainage hook-up points for tourers

Seasonal pitches

Tourer storage facilities

Water hook-up points for tourers

Location

Oakdown Touring & Holiday Caravan Park

Gatedown Lane

Weston

Sidmouth

Devon

England

EX10 0PT

Directions

Timezone

Europe/London GMT (GMT+00:00)

GPS

50.70553°N
-3.18027°W

Route directions

From M5 exit at junction 30 signposted Exeter. Follow the A3052 eastwards through Newton Poppleford and continue to Sidford. Proceed for another 1.5 miles towards Lyme Regis and take the second Weston turning at the Oakdown sign on your right.

Nearest transport

Coach
12.8 mi Honiton Road Park and Ride
12.8 mi The Barn Owl
12.9 mi Rail Station
Rail
6.3 mi Honiton Rail Station
7.3 mi Feniton Rail Station
8.8 mi Whimple Rail Station
Ferry
12.3 mi Exmouth Ferry Landing
12.6 mi Topsham (Turf Lock Ferry) Ferry Landing
12.7 mi Topsham Ferry Landing
Airport
10.5 mi Exeter International Airport

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

Local attractions

Based on the East Devon Heritage Coast in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the area around Oakdown has walks, wildlife, history and geology galore. Stretches of coast here and along the Weston Valley are managed by the National Trust and there’s easy access to the tors and Bronze Age features of Dartmoor National Park. Historic villages are all around for sightseeing, traditional pubs and the essential Devon cream tea: Branscombe, the longest village in England, has a working Victorian thatched forge, a Norman church and a drive-on beach, or there’s the shingle beach and caves of Otterton’s Ladram Bay, home of the Otter Estuary Nature Reserve. The fishing village of Beer is five miles away with huge quarry caves to explore, gardens and a model railway at Pecorama, sea fishing from its sheltered shore or just picking up a fresh catch from the fishermen on the beach. Not that you’d get back to base and pretend you landed the haul yourself… Sidmouth has its famous Folk Week to bop along to in August each year; between sets, wander down the Esplanade from the red cliffs to Jacobs Ladder Beach, amble around the nineteenth century Connaught Gardens – with more music at the bandstand in the summer months – or take in the spectacular view towards Salcombe Hill after clambering up Peak Hill Slope. The village of Sidbury is in the Sid Valley a few miles inland from Sidmouth and has an Iron Age fort, a working watermill and a Saxon crypt at St Giles Church. Day trippers are spoilt for choice too: start off in the historic city of Exeter with shopping, museums and its famous cathedral as well as Bicton Park Botanical Gardens to sink down and relax in. The watersports centre of Exmouth has its Country Life Museum and is one of the several Devon gateways to the Jurassic Coast for fossil-hunting and coastal clambering: hire a bike in the town to go along the seafront and up the Exe estuary to Lympstone, or explore the estuary by taking a tram from Seaton along the River Axe. Junior campers can fly high at the adventure areas at Crealy Adventure Park between Sidmouth and Exeter, with farm animals and pony rides for when they’re back down to earth. If they’re still equinely inclined, the famous Donkey Sanctuary is a short walk from Oakdown and there’s pony trekking available at Farway.

Water quality at nearby bathing waters

Name Distance Type 2020 2019 2018 2017
Sidmouth Town 3.4 mi Sea N/A Excellent Excellent Excellent
Sidmouth Jacobs Ladder 3.6 mi Sea N/A Excellent Excellent Excellent
Beer 4 mi Sea N/A Excellent Excellent Excellent
Seaton (Devon) 4.8 mi Sea N/A Excellent Excellent Excellent
Ladram Bay 5.4 mi Sea N/A Good N/A Good

Data source: European Environment Agency

Must see

Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site 3.2 mi

Crealy Great Adventure Park 10.3 mi

The National Trust Killerton House & Gardens 13.5 mi

Blackdown Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty 14.8 mi

Exeter Cathedral - Church of Saint Peter 15.3 mi

National Trust

Branscombe: the Old Bakery, Manor Mill and Forge 2.1 mi

Shute Barton 6.9 mi

Loughwood Meeting House 7.7 mi

A la Ronde 10.8 mi

Killerton: Marker's Cottage 12.1 mi

Cycle routes

Find local routes on the National Cycle Network - over 12,000 miles of cycling routes.

Other

Weston - Coastal Path - Salcombe Regis 0.8 mi

Branscombe – Street and the Coastal Path 2.7 mi

CONNAUGHT GARDENS 3.5 mi

Seaton - Beer - Pratt's Hill - Holyford - Seaton 4.8 mi

COMBE HOUSE 5 mi

Local events

  • Sidmouth Folk Festival (Friday 2 August 2024 – Friday 2 August 2024)

    Sidmouth, Devon 3 mi

  • Beautiful Days (Friday 16 August 2024 – Friday 16 August 2024)

    Ottery St Mary, Devon 7.2 mi

Please note: All distances on this page are calculated "as the crow flies" - please check actual distance depending on your mode of travel using the Get directions button above.

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