Beauport Park Holiday Park

Beauport Park is within easy reach of the seaside town of St Leonards-on-Sea: stop off for a pint at the oldest pub in the town, the Horse & Groom, before browsing around the artsy shops or getting lost in the maze at St Leonards Gardens. Then prepare your best blood-curdling battle cry for a trip to Hastings, with the nearby 1066 Battle Abbey and Battlefield, and Hastings Castle and the 1066 Story, both telling the story of King Harold’s demise; Europe’s largest beachside fishing fleet is also in the town and there’s St Clements Caves on West Hill for smuggling adventures. There are plenty of walks in and around Hastings too, including – not surprisingly – a 1066 route; you can arrange guided walks (or geocaching), or just take off under your own steam. Golfers can tee off at the championship 18 hole course at Beauport Park Golf Course with 9 hole pitch and putt for junior champs – there’s a course at Battle too and crazy golf at the Hastings Adventure Golf Course as well as a golf school at Rother. For getting off land, there are watersports and sailing from the beaches of Hastings, Bexhill, Camber and Pevensey. Further afield in East Sussex, there’s a host of activities and attractions of all flavours: museums and galleries galore, tasty vineyards, the castles of Bodiam and Herstmonceux; more battling at, er, Battle; following the Cuckoo Trail from Heathfield to Polegat; Drusillas Park and Paradise Park for the kids, and puffing along on the Kent and East Sussex Railway or the steepest funicular railway in the country, the East Hill Lifts at Hastings’s Cliff Railway.