{"id":8310,"date":"2025-12-21T11:08:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=8310"},"modified":"2025-12-21T11:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:08:03","slug":"carpenters-arms-dale-abbey-ilkeston-derbyshire-pub-stopover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=8310","title":{"rendered":"Carpenters Arms, Dale Abbey, Ilkeston, Derbyshire &#8211; pub stopover."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Spent the night here (December 2025) en-route from Harrogate back to East Devon. A large, level carpark and cost to stay over in the carpark is \u00a310 plus \u00a35 for electricity (metered and you get about 15 kwh).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also a small campsite which I think was \u00a325 plus electric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Very friendly pub, toasty log fire and great food. I had the Christmas dinner and it was excellent. Decent selection of real ales including Abbott and Marston Pedigree. Not a bad effort on the cider front too with Aspall and Inches on draft<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Very peaceful and felt safe. 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en-route from Harrogate back to East Devon. A large, level carpark and cost to stay over in the carpark is \u00a310 plus \u00a35 for electricity (metered and you get about 15 kwh). There is also a small campsite which I think was \u00a325 plus electric. Very friendly pub, toasty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/?p=8310\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Carpenters Arms, Dale Abbey, Ilkeston, Derbyshire &#8211; pub stopover.<\/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":[126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-pub-stopovers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310","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=8310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8312,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8310\/revisions\/8312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caravanramblings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}