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Fen Farm Caravan Site

“Long-established park beside the Blackwater Estuary” - AA Inspector

LOCATION

MERSEA ISLAND, ESSEX

Official Rating

★★★★

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The first tents were pitched at Fen Farm in 1923 and over the years the farm gave way entirely to becoming a caravan park. Enjoying an enviable location beside the Blackwater Estuary, it has unique atmosphere with a mixture of meadow, woodland and marine shore, and varied wildlife to match each environment. There are two excellent solar-heated toilet blocks, which include three family rooms and privacy cubicles, with the newest block constructed in the local style of black clapboard and a red tile roof. There is a woodland dog walk and two well-equipped play areas, while crabbing in the beach pools is also a popular pastime. The site also offers an electric car charger.

Facilities – at a glance

Dogs allowed

Electrical hook up

Wi-Fi

Fen Farm Caravan Site

Moore Lane, East Mersea, MERSEA ISLAND, Colchester, CO5 8FE

Phone: 01206 383275

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Features

Leisure

Playground
Sports field

Facilities

Launderette
Ice pack facility
Shop onsite
Wifi available
Baby bathing/changing
Motorvan service point
Calor Gas
Camping Gaz
Toilet fluid

Site Information

Total Touring Pitches: 90
Total Static Pitches: 90
Caravan Pitches Available
Motorhome Pitches Available
Tent Pitches Available

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About the area

Discover Essex

Essex is full of pleasant surprises. It has the largest coastline of any county in England, with its fair share of castles, royal connections and scenic valleys. Take Colchester, for example, which was built by the Romans and is Britain’s oldest recorded town. Its castle contains the country’s largest Norman keep and yet, a stone’s throw from here, East Anglia’s newest arts centre promises to put Colchester firmly on the map as Essex’s capital of culture.

Tidal estuaries are plentiful and their mudflats offer migrating birds a winter feeding place. Essex was known as the land of the East Saxons and for centuries people from all over Europe settled here, each wave leaving its own distinctive cultural and social mark on the landscape. Walking a little off the beaten track will lead you to the rural retreats of deepest Essex, while all over the county there are ancient monuments to explore:

the great Waltham Abbey
Greensted, thought to be the oldest wooden church in the world
the delightful village of Pleshey has one of the finest examples of a former motte-and-bailey castle
Hedingham Castle, magnificently preserved and dating from the 11th century.