Tranquil Parks news January 2026

We’re starting off the year with a 5-night stay at Old Oaks Touring, Camping & Glamping Park to be won. As you may know, this is a much loved and multi-award winning park set in Somerset farmland near Glastonbury. It’s a peaceful and relaxing base for exploring this scenic and historic part of the country, with luxurious amenities and thoughtful touches.

The Old Oaks was Overall Winner for the Top 100 Sites 2025, as both a Regional Winner and Best Site for Caravans. It also picked up the prestigious VisitEngland Rose Award and the campsites.co.uk Best Adult Only Site title, having won the AA’s first ever Sustainable Park of the Year award for 2024/25.

Renowned for beautiful borders, fabulous facilities, perfect pitches and doggie delights, The Old Oaks also has a large fishing lake and great walks from the park as well as excellent food options and an honesty bar. The prize is 5 nights on a Super A, Super B or Standard Electric pitch for a low season stay – see T&Cs for details.

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When Somers Wood Caravan Park opens at the end of this month, it will be 30 years since they welcomed their first guests in 1996!  To celebrate they are giving a huge 30% discount on stays next month. Marc and Angie built the site themselves in the village of Meriden, North Warwickshire.

If you’d like to get out and about next month and enjoy a big discount on a high quality pitch with £2 per night electric included, call 01676 522978 to book or visit www.somerswood.co.uk. (The offer excludes the NEC show week 15-22 February). The team looks forward to celebrating with you and would like to point out that there is no increase in pitch fees for 2026.

The Old Oaks will be running a new type of opening weekend offer. All guests arriving on Friday 27 or Saturday 28 February and staying for at least 2 nights, can enjoy a free burger (reared at Wick Farm, where the park is based) and chips from Lavender Kitchen caterers.   

If you’re quick, you can get 15% off any stay of 3 or more night stays, whether on a pitch or glamping, during March or November at Old Oaks (applies to new bookings only). Offer ends on 23 January 2026.

Valentines Day at Delph Bank – Valentines Day falls on a Saturday this year and the team at Delph Bank Touring & Glamping Park near Spalding in Lincolnshire are planning a celebration in the clubhouse. The park’s first Christmas and New Year celebrations were a huge success (photos on left) and people are already booking for this year!

Eye Kettleby Lakes live music nights – The Lakes Bar & Tearoom is an excellent venue for entertainment just for those staying at Eye Kettleby Lakes, which is near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. Events are taking place throughout the year and they are very popular.

The park has just announced the lineup for November and December, which includes tributes to Annie Lennox, Meat Loaf, ABBA, The Blues Brothers and Complete Madness, plus a 60s and 70s party band. See all events at www.eyekettlebylakes.com/events

At Briarfields Touring Park near Cheltenham the team is starting the year as they mean to go on, with winter improvements officially underway. The work started with the arrival of a 5 tonne digger and pecker, which means owner Scott is in his happy place! (Apparently he loves a digger, especially one with a good heater. Powered by homemade Christmas cake, Scott has been upgrading another 30 pitches from concrete/gravel to fully gravel, allowing guests to pitch awnings on all pitches.

Up by the North York Moors, the Overbrook Caravan Park team have already made a start on some winter projects, one of which was enclosing their small dog exercise area. (It’s shown here as how it will look in springtime!)

Following the launch of ‘The Hideaway’, a social cabin in the woods (top left), 2 new ensuite shepherd huts are on the way at Back of Beyond Touring Camping & Glamping Park near Ringwood. The new units, named Heather and Bramble, should be ready for March.  The team are also working on shower block improvements, 6 new astroturf pitches, a new Number Plate Recognition barrier system, improvements to Monty’s Bar, work on the lakes and changes to reception. Discover The Hideaway, find out more about the new shepherd huts.

Parkland Caravan, Camping & Glamping Site in South Devon (on the right) has given the deluxe pitches a makeover by resurfacing them with granite chippings.  These pitches provide access to your own private washroom and use of the shared utility room which is only available to guests staying on the deluxe pitches.

On 14 June, the South Wales Touring Park family will be celebrating 50 years at Llwynifan Farm in Llangennech near Llanelli!  Hywel, shown here with sister Cathrin (top left) , says that they have not yet finalised plans, but there will be a celebration and commemorative gift for guests. We look forward to sharing more details.

Tom and Chantelle, the Red Kite Touring Park Managers, plus little Louie of course (top right), have left for their winter break. They’ll be spending around 6 weeks in their campervan in Scotland! We hope they have a fantastic time. A big thank you to the guests for taking part in the Red Kite new year’s eve event with hot dogs, vin chaud (hot wine), bubbles and quiet fireworks (bottom right). They raised £600 for Dementia Research.

Christmas and New Year at Cartref Caravan and Camping Site near Shrewsbury was busy and filled with fun laughter, food and drinks (bottom left)! Hungry Chef’s festive menu went down a treat and Christmas and New Year bookings are filling up fast, so don’t leave it too late. We’re also looking forward to sharing news of events at Cartref in 2026.

The jam-packed New Year’s Eve party and charity fundraiser included a home-cooked 2 course meal, a quiz, raffle, auction and live music by Tanglewood, raising a whopping £1,021 for Fighting to be Heard, a charity founded by women with incurable secondary breast cancer. The park team thanks everyone who donated prizes and money.

Snowy scenes from Two Mills Touring Park in Norfolk.

Top row: Snow at Yr Helyg / The Willows near Abersoch, North Wales.

Bottom row: A frosty morning at Red Kite Touring Park and snow around the Clywedog Reservoir 5 miles away.

A stunning snowy sunset and snowman at Somers Wood Caravan Park which reopens at the end of January.