Lower Lacon Caravan Park

Site facilities include two toilet blocks, free hot showers and two laundry rooms. There is also site wide WiFi and a dog exercise field.

There is a licensed shop onsite selling all of the essentials including calor gas and caravan accessories. In terms of entertainment, there are two play areas on site, a crazy golf course and an outdoor heated swimming pool with a toddler's paddling pool.

Please note that the pool is open from the end of May until mid September (weather permitting). Entertainment and activities are available between March and 15th November.

For meals onsite, there is the J.A.K.K.S barn which offers a bar in summer as well as live entertainment, including family discos, here there is also a cafe and takeaway. Or, the Windmill Lounge Bar is for adults only in summer with an adjoining children's marquee that extends to the swimming pool. Note, that during Winter and low season it is only open for weekends.

By the pool is CJ's snack bar which is open for the summer holidays, October half term and over Christmas, but is closed from September to December.

What does Lower Lacon Caravan Park mean to me? I have lived on the caravan park for most of my life, it was wonderful to be brought up with nature and the peace that brings.

I'd like to share a bit of our history with you. Our park originally served as the back entrance to the Aston Park American Army Camp, a munitions and distribution depot built during World War II. The land was originally owned by my paternal grandfather before being taken for the war effort.

During the development, a D8 Bulldozer was lost when it sank into the soil. To address this, the Americans covered much of the park with up to three feet of hard-core material from local foundries. This makes pegging a bit tricky, but it ensures our pitches remain firm in any weather.

Our hardstanding pitches were once large Nissen huts from the Army Camp, retaining their original concrete floor bases, with some now topped with tarmac. These pitches are perfect for motorhomes, American RVs, or those who prefer not to park on grass.

In 1971, my parents bought the land back and decided to develop it into a caravan site here in Shropshire. We opened in 1974 with 60 pitches for touring caravans, motorhomes, and tents. Back then, the site spanned 30 acres, had no electricity, and featured only a small shop and a single toilet block, smaller than our current facilities.

We charged just 66p per night. To support the park's development, my family continued market gardening on nearby land.

Nowadays I enjoy the challenges of running the business and giving people the best holidays we can, while still trying to look after nature.

We try to be as environmentally friendly as possible.

We have been running on green electric for many years now and have a little solar. We recycle as much as possible and have recycling facilities for customers also.

I believe it's the little things that add up to make a big difference to the environment, like when we need to have any trees cut, we leave most of the trunks in the woods to rot providing food for the insects. In turn this provides food for the small birds and other wildlife and also leaves some areas of grassland mainly untouched. But there is definitely more to do.

Although like any business, we're not perfect. We are trying to provide a good family holidays with a minimal impact to the environment as possible. To give the best holidays we can with minimal impact the wildlife.

We hope to welcome you soon,

The team at Lower Lacon Caravan Park.