New Vincent Farm Caravan and Camping

Spend days traipsing through miles of countryside on the Tissington or High Peak trails – both are flat and manageable routes that run along old railway lines that were bought and converted into traffic-free paths by the Peak District National Park in the 1970s. Take the Tissington Trail south and you'll end up in Ashbourne (20 minutes' drive), a market town with plenty of outdoor kit shops where you can pick up extra gear. The landscape hereabouts is arguably as interesting below ground as it is above it – earmark an hour or two for subterranean sauntering at Thor's Cave (20 minutes), or head to the Heights of Abraham (25 minutes) and make a day of it. The smart spa town of Buxton (15 minutes), meanwhile, has an impressive opera house, well-kept botanical gardens and distinctive Devonshire Dome to admire.