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Camping doesn’t get any more child-friendly than on this classic small farm, a stone’s throw from unspoiled Compton Bay where, if lucky, you could find a dinosaur footprint. On the farm itself, kids can have old-fashioned fun in the farmyard – with old tractors to play on, ducks to feed and eggs to collect – and with acres of downland in which to run amok or fly kites. It’s a traditional campsite, not commercialised in the least.
“Some of our campers have been coming for over 30 years,” says Compton’s Jane Phillips. “They visited as children, loved the freedom and fresh air and now bring their own families.”
Still a working farm, this is a place where campers co-exist with a 100-strong herd of suckler cows. Farmed by the Phillips family since the 1920s, this National Trust land is set in a sheltered fold in the Downs looking across to the white cliffs of Tennyson Down and where the higher you climb, the more jaw- dropping the views.
Part of the appeal for returning campers is the rare flora and fauna to spot: butterflies like the Adonis Blue and Glanville Fritillary and flowers like the Early Gentian. And it is obvious from the profuse organic garden tended by Jane Phillips that, like them, she is keen on what she calls “botanising.” Open May-mid September.
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