Lemons Farm Glamping

Vital (and victual) business first: there's a pub with food five minutes' drive away and plenty more of them, plus shops and supermarkets, in Barnstaple (15 minutes' drive). With supplies sorted, hit the beaches of Westward Ho! and Woolacombe (half an hour and 40 minutes respectively) for surfing, sandcastle building and burying your siblings in the sand. If you're into walks, the former's beach links up with the mighty South West Coast Path, though you're under no obligation to do all 630 miles of it… Equally popular with walkers and cyclists, the Tarka Trail passes through 32 miles of the Taw estuary, hitting many of the wildlife-heavy spots featured in Henry Williamson's 1927 novel. Join it at Torrington (20 minutes) or, like the famed otter, fish the Taw yourself (enquire at the High Bullen Hotel in Chittlehamholt, 15 minutes from the site). For more energetic pursuits, the rides at The Milky Way Adventure Park launch you into space screaming and the Ultimate Adventure Centre in Bideford has the whole spread from kayaking and laser tag to an assault course, surf school and Nerf arena. Both are within half an hour's drive. If you fancy some calm after that, make for Ilfracombe (40 minutes) for rides over the waves to the bird-thronged wilderness of Lundy Island.