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Cool Camping: England [Paperback]

Jonathan Knight , Paul Marsden , Andy Stothert
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28 April 2008
This best-selling travel guide gets a complete update in a fully revised Second Edition. Now covering 70 of the very best campsites in England including 35 brand new entries, it's essential reading for contemporary campers. As before, it features the pick of campsites and camping experiences across England, and presents in-depth reviews, practical info and plenty of inspirational colour photos for every site. For this edition, original author Jonathan Knight has overseen a team of 6 travel writers. Between them, they have visited over 500 campsites, travelled thousands of miles and lost at least half a dozen tent pegs in the search for England's coolest sites. New entries include a quirky sea-view site at Lizard Point, a retro-kitsch caravan park in Yorkshire and a Dorset farm with castle views.For each campsite, you'll find all the essential info that other guides leave out, including 'Nearest Decent Pub' and 'If It Rains' entries and new for this edition, a food and drink category to guide you to the best quality local produce and unusual gastronomic treats. The handy 'At A Glance' section allows you to easily identify the campsites you like, by browsing categories including 'Cool For Campfires', 'Family Friendly', 'Romantic Retreats', 'Lakeside Chilling' and 'Surf's Up'. This new edition confirms Cool Camping as the first-choice guidebook for contemporary campers. Other books in the series include France, Wales, Scotland and the Cool Camping Cookbook.

Time Out, April 12th 2006

'Fantastic!'

FT Magazine, September 12, 2006

"This guide... will have you longing for the open air."

The Times, November 18, 2006

"an inspiring reminder of how much home-grown beauty you can miss
on the way to the airport."


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Product details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Punk Publishing Ltd; 2nd edition edition (28 April 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 095520366X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0955203664
  • Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 16.6 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 51,830 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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99 of 99 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Great gems 21 May 2008
By Sinead
Format:Paperback
This is great! We were camping up around the lake district and it directed us to some superb little-used spots. It also has excellent suggestions for eating/drinking etc near each campsite and/or warnings if there's a bit of a walk. We definitely found a few gems (like the Drunken Duck!). It covers 40 campsites across England (each one gets a page or two, and some lovely photographs so you can see what you're getting) - not a huge amount of choice, but as it says itself it "features a hand-picked selection", and seemingly they visited hundreds of camp sites across England to find this list of 40, and i'd much prefer that to a huge list of ones where you turn up and are disappointed.
Something that i found a huge advantage, but that you might find a disadvantage is that they're NOT looking for "holiday park" type camp grounds - their (and my) idea of hell. so the ones listed here will be beautiful , or quirky, or in a brilliant location ... but they won't have lots of swimming pools and hi-de-hi activities etc.
The only (small) disadvantage is, although the directions to/from the campsites are detailed, it wasn't great with directions to some of the "nearby food/amenites" locations - but it does give phone numbers so you can ring and find out if you want to (i suppose it saved space).

Bottom line - i've just now discovered on Amazon (sorry - i originally bought cool camping : england in a little camping shop!) that there are companion guides to wales etc ... and I'm going straight out to put them in the shopping basket!
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great revision of this essential camping guide 31 July 2008
By Katie
Format:Paperback
Great revision of this essential camping guide. Now it features more
campsites across England (70 rather than the original 40), and some of the
originals have been substituted, not sure why? The photos are still first
class and the expanded 'handy information' gives a neat little overview of
what to do and where to eat & drink we loved a secret little locals pub
right on the beach in Dorset, recommended in the guide. The write-up and
information for the campsites are accurate, and the authors seem to favour
the kind of campsites I prefer - small ones with personality, rather than
the large, static caravan type. All in all another great guide from the
dependable Cool Camping dudes.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Cool Camping 31 Aug 2009
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Excellent book if you want to camp in a wild and non -production-line place where you wont see rows of identical tents. The selection of campsites are in mouth-wateringly beautiful locations or quirky, or both and are tempting enough to get you out of your snug b& b and into some real countryside in the UK at it's best.
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50 of 57 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A great idea, but.... 7 Sep 2008
Format:Paperback
A book of out of the way, out of the ordinary camping is a terrific idea, which is why I bought the book. Many of the sites featured look amazing, and they have all been personally 'road-tested' by the CC crew. So far so very good. However there is a (quite a big in my view) downside in that although there is on the surface a large choice of sites, in reality this amounts to an average of less than four sites in each of the 23 counties/regions represented.

So if you want to use this to plan a trip, rather than take it with you, then its really good and will get you to some really interesting off-the-beaten-track places (and I do intend to try some of them out), but much less use as something you carry around in your panniers or glove compartment. So great for selecting a camp for a week's holiday, but much less useful if you are on tour, the kind where you say 'This looks a nice area, let's find a campsite near here' because (my experience) the nearest one might be 50 miles away (and if you happen to be travelling anywhere near a border - Wales, Scotland -- you'll need to buy another book).

Ideally this approach would suit the 'TripAdvisor' style of online consumer contributions. The CC people do have a site, but is is mainly to sell their books. Nothing wrong in that, this is really good book worth buying provided you know what it does and doesn't do - and nothing to stop someone else setting something up of course (maybe someone already has)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars give it a miss 15 Aug 2010
Format:Paperback
This is a stylishly made and well-iilustrated book, with some unusual sites listed in it. It's OK if you want to extend your repertoire of interesting campsites, but beyond that is of limited use. It is obviously aimed at middle-class, image conscious campers and the tone of the whole thing is somewhat condescending, talking about "yummy" farmers markets and rustic pubs. I wouldn't recommend it as a guide, as quite honestly you can find most of these sites on the internet.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Casual Camper 9 Aug 2009
Format:Paperback
Probaby not the book for hardened campers who want a definitive guide, but great picture book for fairweather families, such as ourselves, who go away for the occasional week or weekend of casual tenting.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Cool camping England 2 Sep 2009
Format:Paperback
This is a great series. My only worry is that the more people who know about these wonderful campsites the less wonderful they may become!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Cool Camping 30 Aug 2009
By Henry
Format:Paperback
Great book, very well laid out and good basic information. Can't wait to try some of the sites described.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars cool book
Brilliant !
Stayed in 2 sites in the book and they are pretty accurate accounts
Published on 2 Oct 2010 by lucy
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Refernce Book
My partner and I spent three weeks camping in Cornwall and Devon this August.
We were keen to see some off-the-beaten-track places - and not to spend our time huddled among... Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2010 by Ms Joanne McCarthy
3.0 out of 5 stars Coffee Table Camping
I must qualify all that follows by saying that I have not had this book long - about a month - and have only just used it to book a couple of nights at the start of a holiday next... Read more
Published on 13 Aug 2010 by Steve H
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT BOOK!!! :)
The book is really good, you will get so many campsites including great reviews. Highly recommended
Published on 6 Aug 2010 by wewis61
3.0 out of 5 stars nothing the internet cant provide for free
the only thing this book is good for is overinflated prices at campsites that are in the book. give it a miss and search the internet for local campsites to the area you want to go... Read more
Published on 5 Aug 2010 by ib
4.0 out of 5 stars the best camping book ive brought!
I really love this book, i am an avid camper and love to explore!! I have been to three of the sites in this book and the reviews are spot on!! Read more
Published on 7 Jun 2010 by Mrs. S. L. Newman
4.0 out of 5 stars cool camping
The way that the book is set out is different from your average camping guide. cool photos and definitely makes you want to go there !
Published on 13 Sep 2009 by Jane Elliott
2.0 out of 5 stars marketing puffle
I should have known better...as if i couldn't find all this info in 2 mins by googling it...just a few semi okay campsites that are deemed 'cool' because they happened to have some... Read more
Published on 10 Aug 2009 by Ms. Nicola J. Elliott
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