Horam Manor Touring Park campsite review

The South Downs coastline is my favourite place in England, so to have finally found a quality touring park which makes this beautiful area easily accessible (I live 3½ hours further north) is a dream come true.

Horam Manor is set amid the wooded countryside of the Horam Manor Estate. Facilities here include spacious, heated showers, privacy cubicles, a laundry and motorhome service point. There are 20 all-weather pitches with 16 amp electric, plus further grass pitches. Our dog loved the large exercise field adjacent to the site and we made the most of the site-wide WiFi to plan our trips out.

It’s only a short walk into Horam village where there’s a petrol station with shop and within the Horam Estate itself is a fishing lake, nature trail and café serving all manner of breakfast and hot food options. We chose the full English to set us up for the day.

I didn’t travel all this way to stay on site all the time though. An easy 30-minute drive will have you at the South Downs coast. There’s ample parking at Birling Gap where the National Trust has a café and shop. All that’s left then is to explore to your heart’s content.

You can get down to the seashore at Birling Gap where it’s wild and rugged in its beauty – with the thrashing sea and the towering, crumbling cliffs. Or you can walk along the lush green heathland of the top of the Seven Sisters white chalk cliffs and be awed by the scenery. The view extends for miles and in the summer the water along the coast towards Seaford Head is as clear as that of any foreign clime.

I’ve visited this area in the cold frost of winter and the glorious haze of summer and it never fails to amaze me. And having somewhere as good as Horam Manor to return to each time completes this utopian dream for me.

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