Beacons View Camping

With views stretching as far as Pen Y Fan, the highest peak in the Brecon Beacons National Park, it’s easy to work out how Beacons View Camping got its name. This Monmouthshire pop-up campsite is set in secluded fields down a 1.5-mile single-track lane with plenty of passing places to make life easier for drivers.

Mountain bikers, listen up: this is a clever base for cycling holidays, with both challenging and gentle bike rides nearby. Walkers can amble through woodland in Cwmcarn Forest (20 minutes’ drive) – any canine pals can join in too, of course, but must be kept on a lead back at the site.

Your mornings will be distinctly brightened as you can order from a breakfast menu the night before – everything is cooked fresh to order and delivered to your pitch at a time to suit you; fry-up options are available.

For everything else, there’s a supermarket in Blackwood (10 minutes) for picking up barbecue stuff – just please, no disposable barbecues on the grass; they must be raised up off the ground. Campfires are allowed in firepits only; the site owners can hire them out if you don’t have your own, and they also sell kindling. If you’d prefer someone else to do the cooking bit, there’s a pub nearby (10 minutes’ stroll, leave the car behind and make a night of it) where you can order home-cooked pub grub.

And as this is an off-grid site, there are no electric hook-ups or shower facilities – just portaloos and a mains water standpipe.