Allhallows Place Touring Park

When it’s twitching time, RSPB Northward Drive (15 minutes’ drive from the site) is tiptop: toddle over here to see marsh harriers while looking out over the Thames Marshes. A bluebell wood, rookery and cherry orchard are also at the reserve – as well as chances to sight wigeons, lapwings and grey herons. If you’re thinking Kent’s castles might be worth a look too, you’d be right – Cooling’s is 15 minutes drive away while Hadleigh’s is an hour. A little closer to the park for town times are Chatham and Rochester, each around a 25-minute drive, for yet another castle as well as a 14th-century cathedral. For a rather different experience, a theme park dedicated to construction-related amusement is around here too. Finished with travelling in the UK? Further on in Folkestone (an hour and 15 minutes), you can flee over to France on the ferry or Eurotunnel.