Arise and go now, and go to Uppingham, to find this ‘delightful hotel in a delightful town’, its poetic name recalling WB Yeats’s yearning for the peace of Innisfree.

‘Lively, enjoyable’ village pub/restaurant.

A hostelry of some sort has stood on this spot for a millennium, gradually sweeping up a church, motley outbuildings and a hospital to create this traditionally run hotel that remains ‘very much a part of the town’.

‘Very much a town hotel’ (‘at teatime it was full of people taking tea; in the morning, it was heaving with coffee drinkers’), this popular spot attracts many guests who return for the ‘friendly welcome’ and the ‘pleasant, unfussy’ service.

Allegedly the one-time meeting place of a raucous coterie of 17th-century gentlemen – the Honourable Order of Little Bedlam – this refurbished coaching inn now attracts a more honourable order of regulars and visitors to its inviting pub.

Under the shade of a leafy horse chestnut tree stands this pretty, thatch-roofed country inn.

Homely accommodation, wholesome food and fresh air by the lungful are on offer at this B&B on the Marriott family’s small arable farm.

Down an avenue of lime trees stands this characterful hotel, its apricot-washed facade a welcome sight to its legions of loyal fans.