Glendaruel Short Walks

Around the Caravan Park

Whilst staying at the Caravan Park there may be the odd day that you do not want to venture into nearby towns. Instead you may want to see what there is to do locally.
If you happen to have young children with you there it is likely that you will not be going on any hikes so one of the options that you have is to walk around the outside of the Caravan Park. There are four exists to choose from and they are:

• The main car entrance
• Through the woods beside the Camping site
• The path beside the Static Caravans
• Through the park at the back of the site

Whilst walking round the site you will come across something that looks like the remains of an old building in the image below.

Lucknow Gates

The remains of the old building are in fact the Lucknow Gates. These gates are replicas of the gates that exist in India in the city of Lucknow. The gates were built in honour of the former resident Sir Colin Campbell who was part of the Indian Rebellion in 1857.Originally these gates lead to Glendaruel House where Sir Colin Campbell also known as General Colin Campbell lived and sadly the house no longer stands as in the 1970s it was destroyed by a fire.
Along this path there are plenty of animals can be spotted and in the B&B located behind the caravan are chickens whose eggs are for sale early in the morning so if you want fresh eggs you must get up pretty early.
Before you reach the B&B there is a path mainly suited for off road vehicles but it is safe to walk on. After walking up this path for around five minutes there is an old church. There are no signs informing you of what church it is though it looks well looked after. Once we found this church we asked others at the caravan park and what we found was that it used to be a church but it has since been renovated and it is occasionally rented out to tourists. There is no way in which to verify this as after multiple Internet searches there is nothing about this old church.

Old church

In the next post I will talk about the other walks in Glendaruel. If you want to look at any more images please visit the Gallery.