Banbury Meadow

There’s more to Glastonbury than the festival (though Banbury Meadow’s just a half-hour drive from where it’s held): as well as climbing the Tor, make pitstops at Glastonbury Abbey, the Shoe Museum and the Somerset Rural Life Museum before poking around the shops. If your appetite for retail therapy has been well and truly whetted by Glastonbury, take a slightly different way back to the site for an afternoon burning through your cash in the designer and high street stores at Clarks Village Outlet. Rather spend your time in the past than the present? This is a top spot for history buffs: the Fleet Air Arm Museum and Haynes International Motoring Museum are within 20 minutes of Banbury Meadow, and Montacute House, Wells Bishop’s Palace and Wells Vicar’s Close are just a little further afield. Fancy a getaway free of humankind’s fingerprints? Get out in nature at Ebbor Gorge or get your birdwatching on at Ham Wall RSPB, then dive below the earth’s surface at Wookey Hole caves. Top it all off by cheersing to your fab hols at Wilkins Cider Farm and Burrow Hill Cider and Brandy Farm, half an hour from Banbury Meadow.