Abbey Farm Holiday Park
Lancashire
Nearest full-facility touring park to Liverpool, 13 miles north east at Ormskirk
About Abbey Farm Holiday Park
Liverpool itself has no campsite, so the closest proper touring park with full facilities is Abbey Farm, on Dark Lane just outside Ormskirk in west Lancashire, around thirteen miles north east of the city centre. The site sits beside the ruins of Burscough Priory in flat farmland, and it is a ten-minute walk into Ormskirk, a working market town with a twice-weekly market and a Merseyrail station. Trains from Ormskirk reach Liverpool Central in roughly forty minutes, which makes this a workable base for anyone who wants to see the city without driving into it.
The park is laid out in small paddocks rather than one open field, which keeps it feeling settled: one paddock for seasonal units, one for tents and one for touring caravans and motorhomes. There are around sixty touring pitches, all on hardstanding with 16-amp electric hook-up, and a dozen of those add water and waste connections. Shrubs and flower borders divide the bays, so pitches are more private than the numbers suggest. Tents are taken on grass, with fire pits available.
Facilities run well beyond the basics. Showers are free and hot, with individual shower rooms and a fully accessible bathroom, and there is a covered washing-up and food preparation area alongside a laundry with commercial machines and an iron. On site you will also find a fishing pond, a children's play area, a games field, a games room and a library, plus a large dog-exercising area. Ormskirk supplies the pubs, supermarkets and restaurants, and Southport's beach is twenty minutes up the road in the other direction.