This good-value B&B in a Victorian farmhouse on the Sissinghurst estate makes the perfect base for a visit to the iconic English gardens laid out in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. The largest bedroom looks out to ancient woodland and to the castle's iconic Elizabethan tower.

A Georgian manor house is home to a restaurant with spacious, old-fashioned bedrooms, where Frederick Forster, a former Roux Scholar, has been winning plaudits for his creative ways with locally sourced ingredients.

On a remote corner of the Isle of Sheppey, this former inn on the Swale Estuary is a birdwatchers' paradise, with smart bedrooms and a waterside restaurant serving highly inventive dishes of locally farmed and foraged ingredients, with produce from the dynamic kitchen garden.

Just five minutes and a world away from Ashford International, Brad and Kristie Lomas's 17th-century manor house in an oasis garden is a fine country-house hotel and foodie destination.

Old meets new in this revived 16th-century coaching inn, now a busy, cheerful pub in a historic Wealden village.

In a leafy setting just a stroll from the town centre and the famous Pantiles, this pub has six contemporary bedrooms, a snug in a cave carved into the rock on which it stands, a popular bar, restaurant and beer garden, and seasonally inspired, locally sourced menus of pub classics, with more exotic dishes and sharing platters.

Do you remember an inn, Miranda? Hilaire Belloc certainly remembered this Georgian coaching inn, from which he described setting out in The Four Men.