Oxenleaze Farm Caravan Park

There's a sign in one of the caravans at Oxenleaze that reads: "This is our Happy Place".

And when you arrive - when you turn off that final country lane and see the site nestled into the southern fringes of Exmoor National Park - you understand exactly what they mean.

This isn't a holiday park in the traditional sense. No entertainment complexes. No shouty club houses. Just 25 privately owned static caravan holiday homes set within a landscaped, tree-lined meadow on a working 155-acre sheep farm. The Rottenbury family have owned this land for nearly 50 years, and the peace they've protected here isn't accidental - it's the entire point.

You're genuinely away from it all here. Ten miles from the nearest A-road. Six miles from the historic market town of Wiveliscombe. Thirty minutes from the M5 at Taunton, but it feels like another world entirely. Clean air. Dark skies. The sound of sheep, birdsong, and not much else.

The facilities are thoughtfully understated. A heated indoor swimming pool (open May to mid-September) that's there when you want it, tucked away when you don't. A games room in a converted stone barn - pool table, table tennis, the sort of place children disappear into on rainy afternoons. A laundry room with everything you need, including free ironing facilities. Free Wi-Fi for when the outside world calls, though many owners admit they forget to check it.

But what makes Oxenleaze special isn't what's been built, it's what's been left alone.

Country walks start from your caravan door. Abundant wildlife. Views across to Exmoor that change with every season. The coast is a drive away. So are the market towns of Dulverton and Dunster, local pubs serving proper food, Wimbleball Lake, Clatworthy Reservoir. You're close enough to explore, far enough to retreat.

The park runs from Good Friday (or 1st April) through to mid-January, so it's not just a summer destination. Autumn here - when the moorland shifts colour and the light softens - stays with people. Winter too, when the wood burners go on and the place feels even more like home.

Because that's the other thing owners mention. It doesn't take long before this stops feeling like a holiday and starts feeling like where they're supposed to be.