The holiday retreat in West Yorkshire that prides itself on no internet and no television

Two have taken place already this year on ‘foraging, fermenting and wine-making’ and ‘stitching and sketching’, which was earlier this month.

Daisy Bank Camp was starting to take shape in 2019 with the conversion of some equestrian buildings but the pandemic meant that the business had to take a back seat.

It did, however, put a new perspective on it and the direction that Angie and Andrew Mossman would take it.

Angie said: “In lockdown we could walk on the moors and so many people couldn’t access that. We have friends in London and they said so many people needed to escape to nature and that became part of the business - to make sure what we were creating was a space of respite from the intensity of that.

“At first people say ‘there is no tv, no wifi’ and I say, ‘I know, isn’t that brilliant?’

“We have 3.7 metres of glazing that you pull back, huge bi-fold doors facing the sunrise and the moors. That is your television. Be moved by what you can see, smell and hear.”

Angie appreciates the need to get out of cities and into the countryside after spending her early years in a high-rise flat in Peckham.

She said: “I am from London, I did not have access to nature when I was younger. My mum and dad realised we needed to get out of London. We lived in a high rise in Peckham, we moved to Stevenage and I was fascinated that they had such things as green spaces, trees and country lanes.”

In 1998, Angie got a job with the Halifax Building Society and moved to Holmfirth and, despite leaving that role and going to Milton Keynes, it wasn’t long before she was back in Yorkshire.

She added: “I had completely fallen in love with Hebden Bridge, got another job, got made redundant but didn’t want to go back down south. Then I met my husband and I have been here 17 years.

"My husband was really comfortable out on the moors but I was really intimidated by the vast expanse - it is such a different landscape for a girl that had always been a townie but seeing the access to nature stimulated that part of me that I felt when I was a kid.”

Daisy Bank Camp has three honeycomb cabins and three stable cabins that don’t have internet, phone signal or tv reception but do have reading lights, terraces to enjoy the view and the Calderdale and Pennine Ways and the Sustrans National Route 68 cycle route on the doorstep and the couple are on hand to point you in the right direction for walks.

Angie added: “More and more ideas have started to come around to move away from the digital world, be in a place of peace and nature and be supported and encouraged to try something new and open the creative part of the brain.

“We are so fortunate to have this on our doorstep, it is almost a crime not to bring people to it.”