‘The three generations were happy with the day. We relaxed over croquet, some played tennis, and we had the library for ourselves.’ Praise this year for this Jacobean-cum-Georgian mansion in an Arcadian landscape, from readers who celebrated a significant anniversary there.

The Pointers were a prominent local family, but as a motif for an inn with an outdoorsy, farm-to-fork ethos, a gun dog does very nicely.

Nick Mash has taken a step back to the future in reinventing the 18th-century red brick Three Horseshoes pub as a restaurant-with-rooms.

Owner George Dailey revitalised this honey-stone roadside pub from a tired pub into a popular village hub.

Opposite the Bodleian Library, this contemporary conversion of three stone buildings retains the spacious feel of their Georgian origins.

Beyond a walled terrace, an oak door leads into a 17th-century house that now finds itself at the edge of the city.

Near Blenheim Palace, old-world charm and modern facilities unite at this child-friendly hotel with bags of personality in a Cotswolds market town.