New Hanson Grange Holidays

You’re staying in the Peak District National Park, where walking opportunities abound. Footpaths radiate out in all directions from the farm, whether you’re after a short stroll in Dovedale or hoping to yomp sections of the Tissington Trail (10 minutes’ drive) or the Manifold Way (15 minutes), which is also open to cyclists. If you need a rest from all that hiking and biking, tour subterranean caves and fossil displays at the Heights of Abraham (half an hour), reached by cable-car ride, or see crystals and limestone formations gleaming on guided tours of the Blue John Cavern (40 minutes). There’s plenty of culture to be had in these parts too; have a snoop around elegant Chatsworth House (half an hour) or Tudor-era Haddon Hall (20 minutes) with its gorgeous Elizabethan-style gardens. You can learn about the once-infamous (and now jolly pretty) plague village of Eyam at its namesake museum (35 minutes), and have a potter around the visitor centre and ruins at Peveril Castle (45 minutes), built by King Henry II in 1176.