Valley View

There's a huge range of walks to check out in the surrounding area, whether you're in the mood for scaling the slopes of witchy Pendle Hill (10 minutes' drive), wandering between the trees and willow sculptures at Skipton Castle Woods (25 minutes) or hiking over the moors to Malham Cove (35 minutes), a craggy cliff where peregrine falcons make their nests. Meanwhile, down the road in the village of Barrowford (five minutes), there are all sorts of shops, cafés and bars to visit, while Colne's outlet village at Boundary Mill (10 minutes) has plenty more opportunities to browse your favourite brands. For something a little different, you could also head over to the model town of Saltaire (45 minutes) in West Yorkshire, where a huge Victorian mill has been beautifully converted into a collection of boutique shops, art galleries and cafés. The area's not short of big-hitter attractions either: Skipton (25 minutes) has its castle and canal boat tours, Burnley (25 minutes) has National Trust-run Gawthorpe Hall, while the nearby Forest of Bowland is home to the very popular Bowland Wild Boar Park (40 minutes).