Hi all
I've started thinking that a useful resource for caravanners would be a list or eating places on the road which have good accessible parking for caravans - something which, apart from motorway service areas, seems to be becoming quite rare. For example, main roads back to our home in Hampshire from our favourite spots in Dorset seem to have nowhere at all that combines food and loo availability with parking that doesn't require unhitching the caravan and parking it in a car space.
So, lets have your favourites - useful info would be name, road it's on, and a location, preferably in either National Grid or Lat/Long. If we get enough ideas to make it worthwhile I'll investigate the rpocess for putting together a downloadable POI file for satnavs.
I'm not thinking of offering this as a commercial service or chargeable download, although if PC wanted to host the downloadable file I guess that would be good! Since it was my idea, I'll start...
Layby with food van Including an eat-in service and decent loos, plenty of parking for caravans and trucks, on the A36 between Stapleford and Steeple Langford, only just off the A303.
NGR SU052371
N 51 07.993 W 001 55.638
Paul
I've started thinking that a useful resource for caravanners would be a list or eating places on the road which have good accessible parking for caravans - something which, apart from motorway service areas, seems to be becoming quite rare. For example, main roads back to our home in Hampshire from our favourite spots in Dorset seem to have nowhere at all that combines food and loo availability with parking that doesn't require unhitching the caravan and parking it in a car space.
So, lets have your favourites - useful info would be name, road it's on, and a location, preferably in either National Grid or Lat/Long. If we get enough ideas to make it worthwhile I'll investigate the rpocess for putting together a downloadable POI file for satnavs.
I'm not thinking of offering this as a commercial service or chargeable download, although if PC wanted to host the downloadable file I guess that would be good! Since it was my idea, I'll start...
Layby with food van Including an eat-in service and decent loos, plenty of parking for caravans and trucks, on the A36 between Stapleford and Steeple Langford, only just off the A303.
NGR SU052371
N 51 07.993 W 001 55.638
Paul