Best places: Scoutings in Charlestown, United Kingdom

👍👍 Took the dogs out to Fordell Woods, passed many a time but never stopped. The houses look like our ideal place to live in the woods, very quiet and scenic. I was never interested in the Scouts when I was younger however the set up at Fordell Woods would have changed my mind. It's like an adventure c...

👍👍 I have visited this site since the nineteen eighties. It was and is a fabulous resource for young people. Opened by Baden Powell himself in 1926, the extensive camping grounds offer great views over to the Campsite Hills, the Blane Valley and Loch Lomond. I use it as a base for DofE expeditions at B...

👍👍 I was one of the first scouts to camp here when it became a scout camp in the early sixties and I did so several more times over the years, it is a fantastic woodland site and is very peaceful. I wish I could turn back the clocks and go there to camp and relive those good times spent there.