Bishop's Castle caravan park expands
A caravan park in the Shropshire countryside is expanding.
Twenty-five extra pitches are being created at Bow House Country Park, in the hills of south west Shropshire near Bishops Castle.
The park already has 62 caravan holiday homes and 15 luxury lodges. Fourteen new pitches are being created in the first phase of the expansion.
The park is one of six across Shropshire and Snowdonia owned by Shrewsbury-based Morris Leisure and is managed by Russ and Jane Smithurst.
Edward Goddard, managing director of Morris Leisure, said: “Bow House Country Park is a wonderful place to get away from the stresses and strains of modern living, an idyllic, secluded location for a holiday retreat.
“We are expanding the park due to the demand for pitches with most of the owners living within a two-hour drive of Bishops Castle.
"We have sold 15 holiday homes on the park in the past 12 months and envisage this demand continuing due to the growing popularity of staycationing."
He said many of the buyers had taken the opportunity to stay for a couple of nights and view multiple homes and lodges on the park while they did so in a "try before you buy" scheme.
Set on 33 acres of parkland with the Long Mynd as a backdrop, the park has pitches for caravan holiday homes and lodges with water, electricity, piped gas and TV connection, well-lit tarmac roads, maintained grounds, a four-acre fishing lake and full site security with electrically operated barriers. Managers Russ and Jane live on the park.
Home owners on the park got together and raised £740 for the Alzheimer’s Society at a barbecue earlier this summer, the adopted charity for Morris Leisure and sister company Morris Lubricants this year.
