Vast, varied and fiercely proud, Yorkshire rewards those who travel slowly and look closely. From moorland villages and grand houses with spellbinding interiors to tea rooms, abbeys and bracing sea ai

The North Country Rover ticket offers four days’ travel within an eight-day period and covers the north of England from Halifax up to Newcastle and Carlisle (excluding heritage railways). Available at

If we had to choose our “special place”, Andy and I would always choose Exmoor National Park. It’s a place we often escape to. Straddling the Somerset/Devon border, Exmoor’s coastline is littered with

We keep the ‘van stocked and ready, the bed made and cupboards full should a break in the weather and granddaughter childminding duties allow us to spend a few days away. I like to keep an eye on the

Discover a fancy spa hotel, a pub’s cosy shepherd’s huts and a glam camping lodge

Lauran Elsden escaped to a TREETOP CABIN squirrelled away in the grounds of a Gothic manor on the edge of the Derbyshire Dales