Long Acres Caravan and Camping Park

Don’t lose your head with the huge range of historical highlights in the area, starting with 13th-century Hever Castle, the childhood home of Anne Boleyn (boo to Henry Eighth) and with award-winning gardens, water maze with a mind of its own and what will probably be the fave of the kids – a 13th-century gatehouse with historical instruments of execution and torture. Standen, a National Trust property at nearby Grinstead, has a hillside setting around an arts and crafts house with work by William Morris.

Gardens more your thing? Wander around the world woodlands at Wakeland Place, managed by the Royal Gardens at Kew and the setting for much of Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of As You Like It, or take a look at Wisley, the flagship garden of the Royal Horticultural Society.

Horses? You’ll like Lingfield Park Racecourse, one of only five all-weather racecourses in the country, with race meetings all year round. Or how about other types of beasties – Surrey is stuffed with animal parks, wildlife centres and farms: Lingfield’s British Wildlife Centre with 40 native species, Farnham’s Birdworld (with penguins) and the farm park Hobbledown for starters – or the zoo and Sea Life Centre at Chessington World of Adventures.

Not that a visit to the racecourse coincides with this, but if you’re looking for free things to do around Long Acres and in Surrey, again the area is stuffed with options including walks among the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and chalky North Downs, drooling with envy at Mercedes Benz World or learning about Lewis Carroll at Guildford Museum.