Forest bathing at Tredegar House Park

Tredegar House Country Park is about 90 acres of historic parkland around the 17th-century home of the Morgan family, on the south-west side of Newport. Newport City Council owns the park and the National Trust has looked after the house and grounds since 2015. The last of seven original oak avenues still runs from the 17th-century gates, there are redwoods, and a serpentine lake with a boathouse sits among the trees.

This is the easy option for Newport. Start at the pay and display car park by the mansion and follow the National Trust's mile-long lakeside walk, which begins on a flat gravel path, takes in a small area of woodland in the south-west corner and the oak avenue. Away from the gravel the parkland gets very muddy in wet weather, and woodland paths have roots. Grebes, herons and swans use the lake, and there are toilets by the car park and a café.