Bowland Lakes Leisure Village

If the weather turns and you don’t fancy sitting in your cagoule under the rain waiting for fish to bite, you can head to the Flower Bowl Entertainment Centre (15 minutes’ drive), where a huge range of indoor entertainment awaits. Options include bowling, curling and miniature golf, plus a cinema and a virtual-reality jungle ride. Bowland Wild Boar Park (35 minutes) is home to more than wild boar, with ostriches, alpacas and meerkats, among other residents. You can feed the animals, ride a tractor (or drive a tank) through the grounds and let the kids blow off some steam at the playground, which has a climbing wall and a zipline. It would be a shame to come to this region and not have a good old hike at Lake District National Park (35 minutes). You can explore forested trails, visit National Trust properties like Wray Castle and Hill Top (Beatrix Potter’s cottage) and, of course, have a go at watersports on the lakes.