Needams Camping

Done The Monsal Trail (10 minutes’ drive) and looking for a few days of pottering? Take time out amid the Georgian architecture of Buxton (20 minutes), head for Bakewell (15 minutes) on the River Wye to taste some of its legendary puddings, or have a nose around photogenic Tideswell (five minutes) – be sure to have a look in the village’s vast 14th-century church, nicknamed the ‘Cathedral of the Peak’. Chatsworth House (25 minutes) is one of the region’s biggest attractions, with priceless decorative arts in the house and Capability Brown-designed parkland; it also has workshops, a petting farm and playgrounds for children. Thornbridge Estate (15 minutes) makes a fun day out for younger kids; they can fish plastic ducks out of a fountain, encounter fairytale figures in the woods and follow nature trails. If prehistory is your thing, head to Arbor Low Stone Circle and Gib Hill Barrow (25 minutes), a collapsed neolithic stone circle and Bronze Age burial mound on high moorland. There are more ancient relics at Nine Ladies Stone Circle (half an hour), reached by a ramble across Stanton Moor.