Ground conditions, drainage, and wet-weather closure

The operator does not offer the field in wet weeks, ‘because it is a field’. That is an accurate description of the ground. It is not a procedure. There is no rainfall threshold, no named person who decides, no notice to persons already booked, and no record of weeks refused in 2002. Persons arriving after a wet day, with a letter sent the previous week, would find the same grass and no one on duty after 20:00.

• Soil: surface organic, then a wetter horizon. Not a stone-based pitch. Vehicles would rut it; the parking rule is therefore also a ground-protection rule.
• Fall: slight, toward the trees. After prolonged rain, water will stand at that end before it stands at the hall.
• The upper crossing of the parish trail is wet after rain; that is a different piece of land. It is noted only because visitors to the field are often walkers on that trail.
• No French drain, no soakaway crate, no raised pitch.
• Winter use: not offered. The field is then simply the hall field. No caravan is stored.