Norfolk

Norfolk is about bucket and spade and end-of-the-pier, candyfloss and fish and chips, but it's also strolling with dogs on wide open, empty beaches, warming mugs of hot chocolate, candy-coloured beach huts and big bowls of mussels with frites in cosy gastropubs. Uniquely, it has the Deep History Coast, home of the oldest and best-preserved mammoth skeleton ever found (some bones have hyena teeth marks!) and where 900,000 year old human footprints were found, the earliest evidence of man found outside the Great Rift Valley in Africa. This means that not only is Norfolk the cradle of British civilisation, it's also the destination for the first tourists ever to come to the UK!