The Blackmore Vale Group is a family run business near Shaftesbury in North Dorset, established by Fred and Joan Farrow along with their son and daughter (Michael & Dawn) in 1966.
Back then the business consisted of a 24 hour transport café serving good homemade food for hungry truckers and a modest caravan park for campers and tourist experimenting with the newly launched “mobile caravan”.
As a business Blackmore Vale has remained on the same site outside Shaftesbury, growing and diversifying. Today the Blackmore Vale Group of companies employees 3 generations of the Farrow family here in Dorset, covering a range of business enterprises including:
- A Murco fuel service station, with fuel & Calor gas sales
- BMV M-tech quality pre-owned car sales company
- BMV cycles sales, servicing & accessory shop
- Blackmore Vale Tyres & Exhausts vehicle servicing & mot testing centre
- Blackmore Vale Leisure caravan, motorhome, & residential mobile home sales and servicing centre
- Blackmore Vale Leisure caravan accessories shop
- Blackmore Vale Caravan & Camping Park holiday park
- Dorset Country Holidays & Events fishing lake
- Blackmore Vale Leisure caravan hire
- Dorset Country Holidays & Events Glamping holidays self catering holiday rental, stag and hen activitiy holidays, wedding receptions & event services
Our site also hosts M –Tech a specialist vehicle serving & superchip agent and JS Fitness & personal training.
A lot has changed over 5 decades but one thing as remained the same, our firm belief that providing high quality customer service in a friendly and honest way is the key to continued success.
DCHE provide cost effective stag and hen activity holidays from just £13.75 per person per night! choose from a range of luxury glamping accommodation or park homes and a variety of activities ranging from wine tasting to paintballing. Contact Rob for more details.
The futures bright, the futures....Alice!
Congratualtions to James (BMV M-tech Car sales) & wife Angela who have just had their 1st child, little Alice. With the arrival of the 4th generation of Farrow family you can rest assured that we intend to be serving you for a while to come yet.
We look forward to hopefully meeting you soon.
The Farrow family
