Jerusalem Farm

Ticket off bucket-list attractions like the castle, Georgian New Town and Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh (35 minutes’ drive), or climb up Arthur’s Seat for views to the Firth of Forth. If city life is not for you, genteel Haddington (10 minutes) is a mellow market town with riverside walks alongside the Tyne and pretty gardens to wander at St Mary’s Pleasance. Meander through dunes to the vast sandy beach in John Muir Country Park (20 minutes), and if you’re looking for something a mite more challenging, the cycling and hiking routes of the Lammermuir Hills are about 20 minutes away by car. Combine your strolls with a history lesson and clamber up Traprain Law (15 minutes) to the site of an Iron Age fort, or visit the castle ruins at Dirleton (20 minutes), Crichton (15 minutes) and coastal Tantallon (25 minutes). There’s parkland to explore at Lennoxlove House (10 minutes), along with sumptuous apartments in the house itself, with parts dating from the 14th century and much remodelled down the centuries.