Delph Bank Caravan Park

Keen cyclists can join National Cycle Route 1 directly from the pitches for flat cycling through Fenlands crisscrossed with peaceful waterways and flat landscapes dotted with church spires. Walkers may like to follow the way-marked, circular Three Church Trail from Fleet Hargate Baptist Church (10 minutes’ walk) to the landmark ‘Cathedral of the Fens’ in Gedney (20 minutes) along country lanes and dykes. There’s plenty of grand architecture in these parts too – and nothing comes much grander than the sprawling Royal household on the Sandringham Estate (50 minutes’ drive), open for guided tours when the King’s not in residence. Almost as impressive is 16th-century Burghley House (55 minutes), where you can peek into sumptuous interiors and stroll the extensive deer park. For days on the North Norfolk coast, choose between shingle Snettisham Beach (55 minutes), good for wading birds around RSPB Snettisham Reserve; the brace of beaches (one lively, the other nigh-on deserted) at Heacham; and sandy Hunstanton (both an hour), backed by pink-tinged cliffs. A nose around the Georgian Hanse House, Custom House and Purfleet Quay in King’s Lynn (half an hour) recalls the town’s heyday as a thriving sea port before the Fens were drained.