salisbury plain road trip

sorry if iv posted in the wrong place.
me and a few mates are planing to a trip to salisbury plain for the weekend some time in november to do some laning and wanted to know if anyone knows of an hotel, b'n'b or campsite in that area that wont mind a few muddy landys turning up?

MadMarc said:

sorry if iv posted in the wrong place.
me and a few mates are planing to a trip to salisbury plain for the weekend some time in november to do some laning and wanted to know if anyone knows of an hotel, b'n'b or campsite in that area that wont mind a few muddy landys turning up?

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There's a campsite in Tilshead that will take you. The Hertford guys came down for a weekend last year and they were fine with a group of 15 muddy landys being towed in and out.

If you ask the guys in the Hertford thread they may remember the name of it. It's situated 100yds from a byway that takes you straight up onto the plains.

Are the plains any good,i can only remember parts as a kid.

Beast o Bodmin said:

Are the plains any good,i can only remember parts as a kid.

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yes the plains are good and offer a good variety of mud, water hills etc. If the weather has been good for a couple of weeks though it can be hard to find any mud or water holes.

You need to keep a close eye on your radiator though. Salisbury mud and water blocks yer rad up in no time. Many people on here have suffered problems with this so keep a close eye on the temp gauge.

Ahhhhh.

Had same prob with trattor tother day but it were dust.Doing grass the seed gets in the rad and heat up quick she does.Ive got flyscreens mounted on rad/intercool and air con so you just slide out screen and clean.Easy.Had considered this fer me rangie...

We use here on the Ebble Valley Trial (weekend long green lane navigational rally) so I expect they will be ok with a few green laners.

Stonehenge Touring Park

Beast o Bodmin said:

Are the plains any good,i can only remember parts as a kid.

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They are brilliant… you just cant get enough of it..
I'm there almost every weekend.
There's muddy bits where you can have a laugh and see who gets stuck, dry areas for some axle articulation and deep holes where you better have your tow rope ready just in case you get stuck…or you might get water up to your waist!
I don’t know much of the south area of the plains, as we always play on the area between Tilshead, Buldford camp and Everleigh

here's some pics BoB

ratty said:

There's a campsite in Tilshead that will take you. The Hertford guys came down for a weekend last year and they were fine with a group of 15 muddy landys being towed in and out.

If you ask the guys in the Hertford thread they may remember the name of it. It's situated 100yds from a byway that takes you straight up onto the plains.

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ok thanks i will do im not sure on the full details yet but if anyone fancys it all are welcome or could meet up with ppl that are local to the plains i will post times/dates ect

well ive a freind in durrington so will be staying there fer a november weekend no doubt...
the plains do look muddy i will have to make me radiator screens and snorkle

yes, definately a radiator screen... I'm doing one for mine as I have to wash it everytime I go there...
and the stuff in Salisbury when it dries is like cement..

[JP];843213 said:

yes, definately a radiator screen... I'm doing one for mine as I have to wash it everytime I go there...
and the stuff in Salisbury when it dries is like cement..

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Slap some tinfoil on the outside. that'll keep it clean

[JP];843213 said:

and the stuff in Salisbury when it dries is like cement..

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Clay and chalk will do that

Went down a month ago; soils very chalky, and well drained; was raining; had been raining for a week, but what were described on the OS as 'fords' were little more than puddles!
Bludy mud they got though is just 'plain' wiered!
Gets where parafin wouldn't, and sets like glue!
Hosed down when I got home, as I normally do, and a quarter of a century of mud-plugging has left me a bit 'anal' in that ritual, yet towed the caravan away a week ago and overheated! At home, after foreward and back-flushing gawd knows how many times the rad, its still clocgged with wiltshire cement! and I've resigned myself to a new set of discs come MOT time as I've given up trying to get it out the vents!
Not like good old Leicestershire clay..... you just dig that off with atrowel and make bricks out of it!
Stuff is MEAN I tell you!

I blocked my rad on my last landy with salisbury's finest mud. I bought a rad muff to stop it happening to my TD5.

ratty said:

I blocked my rad on my last landy with salisbury's finest mud. I bought a rad muff to stop it happening to my TD5.

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Does it get muddy in the garage then???

Sirus said:

Does it get muddy in the garage then???

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My TD5 is better off in a garage than becoming a kiln like my last landy did.

ratty said:

My TD5 is better off in a garage than becoming a kiln like my last landy did.

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You could make some of the terracota landies with the salisbury mud and your landie kiln

Sirus said:

You could make some of the terracota landies with the salisbury mud and your landie kiln

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I don't have my kiln anymore. The insurance company took it away.

hey ratty.. where did you get the rad muff?