Wispy Meadows

Stretch your legs (and those of any accompanying dogs) on local strolls in Wayland Wood (five minutes’ drive), on The Great Eastern Pingo Trail (15 minutes) following a former railway line, or amid the vast leafy expanse of Thetford Forest (also 15 minutes). Alternatively, combine your hike with sporting action and play a round at Richmond Park Golf Club (five minutes’ walk). Spend the day seeing how the other half live in the museums and ornate chapel of Sandringham Estate (45 minutes), where you can also explore 400 acres of parkland. Ingest more grandeur with a tour of lavish rooms and alfresco sculpture trails at Houghton Hall and Gardens (40 minutes), built for Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole in the 1720s. Hit a rainy day? Make for the entertaining Dad’s Army Museum in Thetford (half an hour), celebrating the antics of the much-loved TV series, and have a spin through local history at the Ancient House Museum, housed in a crooked half-timbered cottage with all manner of eccentric artefacts displayed in period rooms.