Treza Camp Site, Porthleven

If you can’t decide between Land’s End and The Lizard, why not pitch up in between and visit both? Treza Camp Site is midway between England’s most westerly point and its southernmost, within walking distance of Porthleven Harbour. It’s a great-value, back-to-basics kinda site for tents, campervans and motorhomes with clean facilities, friendly hosts and campfires allowed.

What’s not allowed is amplified music and this one simple rule means peace pervades across this laid-back, six-acre site. The campsite’s slope affords visitors views of rolling countryside – from some spots all the way to the sea, but it’s worth noting that if you like a perfectly level pitch with marked-out boundaries, this may not be the place for you. It's a farm. And these are farm fields, given over to camping in the summer with free form pitching as you please. And it's all cared for by a family who've farmed here for a good 50-plus years.

Porthleven, the UK’s most southerly working port, has an ever-growing reputation as a foodie destination – it has nowhere near the crowds of Padstow and St Ives so its harbour is a great place to tuck in to fresh fish and seafood. You can walk there from Treza in around 15 minutes and there are three miles of sand and shingle beyond. And, if it's beaches you're after, you don’t have to go far to find another, and another, and another: this is Cornwall after all. The lifeguarded Praa Sands, for example, is four miles along the coast. Lizard Point is 14 miles east, Lands End, 22 miles west but you might find it’s more pleasant to just stay put and explore this little slice of the Cornish coast.