Howgills Hideaway

Walking first: the Howgill Fells are well known for their beaut landscape and their views to the Lakeland Fells and beyond, and can be accessed straight from the site. Two Marilyns and five Hewitts are here to climb too with heaps more peaks in the Yorkshire Dales National Park (Howgills Hideaway is in the park's upper northwest tip). Those who want town trips have England's book town Sedbergh four miles away, also home to the famous public school and plenty of shops, cafés, banks and pubs. Kendal is 11 miles away with a shopping centre, a cinema, leisure facilities and a wide variety of places to eat. The market town of Hawes is to the east; head here for the Wensleydale Cheese Factory, Hawes Ropemakers and the Dales Countryside Museum. Heading west, water wanderers will reach the Lake District National Park and the town of Bowness on Windermere, home of The World of Beatrix Potter.