Oak View Caravan Park

Scragged Oak Caravan Park is in prime position to traverse the best of Kent's countryside, coast, castles and well-known gardens – with Essex and its coast easily accessible too to the north.

If you're here for a very soothing hol indeed and don't fancy travelling too far/at all, the Kent County Showground showcases the best of the county all year round, especially in the farming and agriculture displays each June in the Kent County Show. (You might see the BBC Countryfile team there at some point too.)

Plenty of pedalling and perambulating opps are around the North Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, such as the 153-mile route of the North Downs National Trail through from Farnham to Canterbury, passing the White Cliffs of Dover. This takes in the 119-mile Pilgrims' Way, the supposed route of Thomas Becket from Winchester to Canterbury Cathedral.

Elsewhere in Kent, loads is on all year round in the 500 acres of parkland and formal gardens at lovely Leeds Castle, like free falconry displays, play areas, special events and making one's way intrepidly out of the castle maze.

Also see Rochester Castle, on the east bank of the Medway, for its twelfth century keep and stacks of historical info: the castle was sacked during the Peasants' Revolt, held for Henry III against the barons, and besieged (also because of barons) by bad King John.