Oak Lodge Glamping

Family-friendly pubs with food are close to hand, a popular choice being the Crown Hotel in Mundford 10 minutes’ drive away. There’s an added bonus at the Bridge House Hotel in Brandon (15 minutes); hire rowing boats there to venture down the Little Ouse past water birds and weeping willows. Thetford (half an hour) is the place for shops and supermarkets but it’s a town worth lingering in too. Visit the Ancient House Museum of Thetford Life to see how the Tudors did things, get contemplative in the ruins of the medieval priory… then spend some time in the Dad’s Army Museum to see a towering collection of sitcom memorabilia. Next door, Thetford Forest Park is brimming with walking trails and cycle paths; you can hire bikes here, or if you’re less energetically inclined, see the forest on a Segway. For an aerial view of this ancient bit of woodland, hit the treetop rope trails at Go Ape Thetford. It’s a 50-minute drive to the coast and The Wash National Nature Reserve, a marshland wilderness where footpaths go past flocks of wading birds under massive skies; head to Hunstanton for the beach and boats out to the seal colonies.