The family-run J.J. Cooper and Sons group of eight parks spans six counties across the south of England. We visit two of them for this issue

Garstons Park Home Village

We love the name of this park; ‘home village’ accurately sums up the appeal and character of this 17-acre park. Garstons Park is the headquarters of J.J. Cooper and Sons, who own eight parks spanning six counties across the south of England.

Garstons Park has a well-established look, with mature trees and well-tended flowers and shrubs. Homes are arranged in little avenues with Victorian-style lamps. The plots vary in size and angle, some with picket fencing, some with open aspect. There’s a quiet maturity about this park; a well-settled feel that makes you feel instantly at home.

Homes at Garstons Park start at £165,000 and rise to £279,500 for a home with two double bedrooms. A part-exchange scheme is in place to consider if you have a property to sell.

J.J. Cooper and Sons has owned this park for 18 years. One of the gradual changes taking place is that plots are being made larger as the general shift from single units to double-unit homes continues.

This park is in a brilliantly convenient location, 15 minutes from Reading, 10 minutes from Pangbourne, on the Thames (well known for its good choice of restaurants and cafés). Ascot is close by and so is Wokingham, rated as one of the top 10 best places in the UK to live. London is a 40-minute drive away and less by train, from Reading. Location is everything and Garstons Park is close to so many desirable places; you’d never be short of ideas for days out from here!

J.J.Cooper and Sons was founded by Joseph J Cooper Senior who has been a park owner for more than 40 years. Today, the parks are largely run by his sons, James and Joseph Junior; it’s clear to us that they carry on the personal touch and attention to detail ethos laid down by their father.

Lincoln Farm Park

We visited four of the parks; among them Lincoln Farm Park on the southern edge of the Cotswolds, a park with a very different character to all other residential parks.

That’s because Lincoln Farm Park has a holiday element – a separate area of the park for touring caravans and motorhomes. It also has an indoor swimming pool, sauna and gym complex (for which there is free membership for residents), plus an amusement area and a shop. All of that combines to create the impression that you’d always feel you are on holiday if you bought a park home here.

Lincoln Farm Park is 10 minutes from the character Cotswold town of Burford and also close to Witney, once a centre of wool production, the industry on which the prosperity of the Cotswolds was founded.

Ornamental cherry trees were in full bloom at the time of our visit; the park is immaculately kept everywhere. All of the plots are large and most have open field views where Muntjac deer are frequently seen. It’s a gorgeous, quiet location.

Contact
J.J. Cooper

Garstons Park Home Village
Tilehurst, Berkshire RG31 4TS
0118 942 8782

Lincoln Farm Park
Standlake, Witney, Oxfordshire OX29 7RH