A DORSET-based holiday business sold new homes worth more than £1.1m in one weekend.

Hoburne Holiday Parks made the sales at the Holiday Park and Homes Show at Beaulieu.

Some 22 holiday homes were sold to new and upgrading customers, 17 of them from manufacturer ABI.

The sales also included a new lodge, which will be the first to be sited at Hoburne Bashley in New Milton.

Hoburne’s group sales manager, Dan Steadman, inset, said: “It was a great weekend. The weather was good, lots of our owners came to the show, manufacturers like ABI unveiled some fantastic designs and we have top quality parks in incredible locations that families want to buy into.”

Open weekends are being held at all seven Hoburne Holiday Parks across Dorset, Hampshire, Devon, Somerset, the Cotswolds and Cornwall for the next four weekends.

The Holiday Park and Homes Show, held in the grounds of the Beaulieu estate, was an exhibition of next season’s caravan holiday homes and lodges from many of the major UK manufacturers. Exhibitors ranged from holiday park operators in the UK and overseas to decking manufacturers and insurance firms.

Hoburne Holiday Parks traces its roots to May 1912, when John Burry, the current chairman’s great-grandfather, bought a plot of land at auction. Temporary bungalows were put up one by one and the holiday parks of today were born. Mr Burry bought Naish Farm eight years later, after which redundant railway carriages, shepherds’ huts and other structures began appearing around the fields for conversion into holiday homes.

Hoburne Ltd and its sister company Burry and Knight run seven parks, three golf courses, property development company Hoburne Development and electrical company Hoburne Electrical.