‘Food-focussed readers will be happy’ at this red brick Chilterns restaurant-with-rooms that offers a ‘distinctive cooking style’.

Having hosted everyone from Chaplin to Churchill, this ‘superbly refurbished’ Italianate mansion seduces visitors with the prospect of ‘luxurious country house living’.

An idyllic spot on and off the water, this Thames-side hotel and spa is ‘so very relaxing’.

Far-reaching views of ‘peaceful’ countryside roll away from this luxurious, ‘very grand’ Victorian mansion; Gertrude Jekyll designed the ‘spectacular’ surrounding gardens.

Closed down because of ill health at end of September 2018. Gerry and Ann Price ‘set the standard’ at their ‘well-run’ pub/restaurant-with-rooms, where the ‘hands-on owners’ foster a hub-of-the-village atmosphere. Closed down because of ill health at end of September 2018.

‘The immaculate and well-laid-out garden gave the promise of the outstanding stay to come,’ write readers this year, of a night at Simon Page and Jason King’s ‘amazing’, dog-friendly pub – an 18th-century former hunting lodge on the North Wessex Downs.

In a Georgian Arcadia, this Jacobean mansion, refashioned in the 1700s, was the palatial refuge of the exiled Louis XVIII and his court.