Between town and racecourse, Nirav and Dhruti Sheth’s conveniently situated hotel is in a fine stone mansion in leafy Pittville.

‘Enjoyable, quirky and good value’, Paul Smyth and Shaun Bailey’s butler-themed B&B occupies a 19th-century gentleman’s residence, ‘an easy walk’ to the promenade and the Montpellier district.

Across from Imperial Gardens, this trio of well-restored Georgian town houses forms an alluring whole: one modish, metropolitan hotel with a smart restaurant, two lively bars and a collection of very-voguish bedrooms.

Period features, paintings and objets d‘art fill the de Savary family’s elegant B&B, in a Georgian town house in the fashionable Montpellier district.

Pink without and peachy within, this Queen Anne-style mansion, in a rural hamlet with views to the Malvern hills, has been owned by the Hine family since 1978.

Judy Gardner’s restaurant-with-rooms and purpose-built cookery school sit amid a working farm in the Avon valley.

In one of the prettiest villages in the Cotswolds, this Palladian house overlooking the Slad valley in Laurie Lee country is a soothing escape for rattled city-dwellers.

Golden stone abuts Tudor black-and-white at this historic hotel, which has a large terrace for alfresco dining overlooking a picture-postcard village green.

Tables are set for some seriously good dining at Andrew and Gaynor Riley’s restaurant-with-rooms, occupying the former showroom of Sir Gordon Russell, wartime pioneer of utility furniture, in a picture-postcard Cotswold village.

An impressive list of famous guests, including both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, have stayed at this rambling Tudor coaching inn with beams and inglenooks, panelled walls and leaded windows.

Pam Talboys runs her ‘beautifully appointed’ B&B on a quiet cul-de-sac in this honey-hued village.

This 17th-century manor house of honeyed Cotswold stone looks every bit the smart country house hotel.

The hub of a pretty Cotswolds village, this mellow-stone pub-with-rooms (Calcot Collection) is liked for its stylish accommodation and relaxed nature.

The late Rosemary Verey, doyenne of the 20th-century English country garden, created the flourishing grounds at this 17th-century Cotswold stone mansion, her home from the late 1950s.

In a historic wool town, the classic Cotswold-stone exterior of this ‘likeable’ 17th-century inn gives way to a cool, contemporary decor that mixes wooden beams and ancient floorboards with Scandi-chic furnishings, a fine cocktail list and a family-friendly feel.

‘What a setting!’ Creeper-covered and wood fire-warmed, this busy 17th-century coaching inn (now owned by Fuller‘s) stands on the banks of the River Coln, in a quaint village William Morris described as the most beautiful in England.

High in the Malvern hills, this refurbished Georgian dower house has ‘stunning’ views over the Severn valley.

Amid the green fields of the Stroud valleys, Fiona Shiner’s family-owned vineyard and winery shelter a modern B&B.

A striking landmark in the centre of the market town, this refreshed hotel occupies two black-and-white-timbered Tudor buildings with many original features: exposed ancient beams, leaded windows, a centuries-old staircase.

An 18th-century malthouse on a hilltop, with spectacular views across the Evenlode valley, is today a village hub, pub and foodie destination.

‘The staff were friendly and helpful, the setting on the village green was delightful – what a wonderful place to stay,’ says a trusted reviewer of this Cotswolds inn-with-rooms.

Facing the market square in a Cotswolds town known for its fine ‘wool church’, this stone-built 15th-century building has variously hosted a monks’ chanting-house, a post office and a coaching inn.

Overlooking the green in a Cotswolds village, and decked with hanging baskets, this pretty pub-with-rooms was in the doldrums before two local families took it on and spruced it up.

‘At the heart of a quintessentially Cotswold village’, this Georgian rectory turned laid-back but stylish hotel proved ‘enough to make a pair of Londoners consider giving up city life’.

The very model of an olde worlde inn, with its flagstones, beams, blazing fires and jumbled interiors, The Lamb sits on the edge of a picture-perfect Cotswolds wool town, in the aptly named Sheep Street.

‘We had a wonderful family holiday here.