Middlewood Farm Holiday Park

Middlewood is fably set for coast and countryside as well as days hiking – or biking – over the Yorkshire moors. Bike hire is available on site. The closest beach is that of Robin Hoods Bay, a 10-minute walk through peaceful countryside. You can access the 110-mile Cleveland Way from here if you're after a more strenuous time (stride to Boggle Hole or Maw Wyke), or stay around the bay to cast off from the sea wall or bay marks to land fish of up to 20lb. Robin Hoods is also the end point for the Coast to Coast Walk if you care to tramp part of its 192-mile path to Cumbria. Famed and vampirish Whitby five miles or about 10 minutes' drive away is a must-see for its abbey; HMS Endeavour; and, twice a year, the hordes of pale-faced and elaborately-booted types swooping into town for the Whitby Goth Weekend. (Which is also rather fab if you can make it). Another famed and must-see Yorkshire seaside spot is Scarborough half an hour's drive south, for fish and chips, amusements, Scarborough Castle and the Stephen Joseph Theatre. Filey and Bridlington are also very much worth a look, as is a journey inland to steam along on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.