Ridge Farm Camping and Caravan Park

Stayed here for a couple of nights this summer and was pleasantly surprised having not attempted to camp since my youth. There are two main areas in this camp site, one for families and one empty field where you can park your car and stick your tent up next to it. This place also caters for electrical hook ups for caravans and the like. Facilities include a small shop (on-​site) to get the basics, gas canisters and toilets and showers which are free to use 24 hours a day, so that you don’t have to relieve yourself in the bushes in the middle of the night (hurrah!). This camping site is in a pretty good location if you are interested in doing some local site-​seeing as it’s a short drive away from Corfe Castle and Swanage and just outside Wareham. It’s also pretty close to Lulworth Cove (the favourite holiday destination of Mike Leigh’s smug vegetarians Candace-​Marie and Keith). The price of pitching isn’t hugely expensive considering what you pay these days and the facilities provided make it worth it. Look out for farm shops on the road down to Corfe Castle.