About The Thornley Family

Thornley Leisure Parks - a Family Tradition ...

Thornley Leisure Parks founder, the late William (Bill) Sutcliffe Thornley and his wife Dorothy, had holidayed for many years in North Wales. They loved it so much that they decided they would like to own their own caravan park which they did in 1961 when they purchased the then derelict Craiglwyd Hall in Penmaenmawr. Since then the company has grown to the successfully run seven holiday parks it operates today in North Wales and Cheshire.

Craiglwyd Hall when first purchased consisted of just 50 pitches, today the park has 157 fully serviced pitches. Over the years since 1961 the progression of the company has resulted in Thornley Leisure acquiring following parks, Lakeside Caravan Park at Winsford in Cheshire, Maenan Abbey Caravan Park, near Llanrwst, Ocean Heights Caravan Park, Chwilog, near Pwllheli,
The Beach Caravan Park at Llanddulas near Abergele, Dinlle Caravan Park, near Caernarfon and finally in 1999 Green Pastures in Abersoch.



Today all seven parks are administered from the William Sutcliffe Suite at Thornley Leisure Head Office in Colwyn Bay. Managing Director David Thornley, together with his son, David Jnr and daughter, Libby together with an outstanding administrative and maintenance team who continue to uphold family traditions of excellent service and customer care. Each park is staffed by highly competent and friendly personnel many of whom have been with the company for many years. All the parks are maintained to an exceptionally high standard throughout with continual upgrading on a progressive basis. At Thornley Leisure Parks, our main objective is to make sure that our owners and guests both short or long term are completely satisfied.