Grange Farm Touring Park

Keen on outdoorsy endeavours? With Thetford Forest just a 10-minute drive away, get stuck in… feet first, indeed, if you begin at High Lodge (25 minutes’ drive), where there are Segways for hire and several cycling or hiking trailheads diverting off into the beech, oak and silver birch. High Lodge also organises activities like archery, and there’s a Go Ape Thetford (25 minutes) with zipwires, so take your pick. That should be plenty of family-friendly activities to get on with, but if you're looking for more, a farm park should do the trick: Melsop Farm Park (35 minutes) and Church Farm - Stow Bardolph (15 minutes) both have farm-themed activities. Just a couple of turns of the car will get you to Oxburgh Estate (five minutes) for a totally different day out. The National Trust site has a Victorian garden, a parkland with a chalk river and Victorian Gothic interiors. When it’s time for some fresh sea breeze, the beaches of Hunstanton (50 minutes) and Heacham (45 minutes) are northwards, and Norfolk Lavender (45 minutes) and the market town of King’s Lynn (25 minutes) are also in the same direction. Seeing the countryside is always a fine thing, especially when you’re chugging along three miles of historic railways on a locomotive from Bressingham Steam & Gardens (40 minutes).