{"id":8144,"date":"2025-07-24T18:01:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=8144"},"modified":"2025-07-24T18:01:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:01:37","slug":"isle-of-purbeck-church-farm-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=8144","title":{"rendered":"Isle of Purbeck, Church Farm, July 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are a lot of campsites located on farms next to churches so we were relieved that Google navigated us without incident to Church Farm on the Isle of Purbeck. Located in a farmers field in the village of Church Knowle, this site is a Certified Site in the Camping and Caravanning club network. It’s off-grid, very peaceful and absent of light pollution at night. The facilities are basic – a couple of loos and a shower and we think the price is around \u00a315 per night. We aren’t really sure because after two days here, we haven’t seen anyone from the farm yet!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once we had pitched up, we headed to the New Inn, a short walk from the campsite. There were references that it is now a community pub but we didn’t get that vibe whilst we were there. It’s a stunning building, in keeping with the overall feel of Church Knowle being an affluent rural community in a lovely part of Dorset.<\/p>\n\n\n

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New Inn, Church Knowle, Isle of Purbecj, July 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Food was excellent with plenty of choice and there’s a decent selection of fish dishes. Although between us we weren’t very adventurous with Moe choosing Scampi and Joe enjoying the duck salad starter.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Dinner at the New Inn, Church Knowle, Isle of Purbeck, July 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Today we headed into Poole and the reason for our visit, was the annual service of our campervan at Breeze VW Commercial. After a number of awful experiences with other VW main dealers, Breeze continue to provide a great service. Whilst it was a struggle last year to even determine if Yeoman’s in Exeter had actually performed an oil change, there was a detailed video from Breeze showing the work carried out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the afternoon we stopped off at “Blue Pool” where we lunched at the cafe and wandered around the gardens and pool. The pool \/ lake was an old 19th century quarry excavation that filled naturally with water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The claim to fame for Blue Pool is that is hosts the longest rope bridge in the UK. Moe adds that it’s very bouncy… hmm.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Blue Pool, near Corfe Castle, July 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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There are a lot of campsites located on farms next to churches so we were relieved that Google navigated us without incident to Church Farm on the Isle of Purbeck. Located in a farmers field in the village of Church Knowle, this site is a Certified Site in the Camping and Caravanning club network. It’s … Continue reading Isle of Purbeck, Church Farm, July 2025<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-isle-of-purbeck-july-2025","category-2025-united-kingdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8154,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions\/8154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}