'Each time, something good gets better,' wrote one frequent visitor to this smart little B&B in a village in the Dartmoor national park. Owner Tim Daniel, once co-owner of Number Sixteen in South Kensington, London (see Shortlist), lives in an adjoining cottage. Named after the village well, and set in a walled garden, the house overlooks meadows. It has a comfortable lounge with original paintings, sculptures, fresh flowers, books and a fire. The 'immaculate' small bedrooms upstairs 'have everything you might expect'. One has its bathroom across the hall. Breakfast is 'varied, cooked to order, nothing packaged, all fresh local produce', and with blue-and-white china. It is normally served communally, round a farmhouse table, but guests wanting privacy may eat at a table for two across the hall, in a small room hung with luxurious drapes that once belonged to the late Queen Mother. There are good walks from the door, on the moor and in the wooded Teign valley. 'A hidden gem,' says a visitor in 2009. (David Charlesworth)