On the pretty square of a historic market town on the edge of the Cotswolds, this Grade II listed Georgian house has been restored with ‘immense panache and impeccable taste’.

‘B&Bs this good are rare,’ write hoteliers who stayed at Jane and William Pusey’s 16th-century manor house.

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

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.

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.

Tim and Denise Perkin run their well-regarded B&B in a suburban house, close to the farmhouse where Anne Hathaway lived as a child.

In a 400-year-old Grade II listed building across the road from the Guildhall, this style-savvy hotel and restaurant occupies a prime spot in the medieval market town.

‘Foodie heaven, with the bonus of nearby culture in Stratford-upon-Avon’, this restaurant added rooms in 2019 and is new to the Guide after an insider was bowled over by its ‘amazing value and fantastic meals’.