A Georgian gentleman’s residence and next-door Carolean town house combine as one hotel on cobbled Frenchgate.

A ‘lovely drive over moors’ leads to this hotel in a North Pennines village built from the stone of a dissolved 12th-century abbey.

Heather and David Armstrong are warm and accommodating hosts at this ‘fascinating’ hotel, occupying a farmhouse and rustic-looking, purpose-built annexes.

‘Wow, what a wonderful place this is!’ A regular reader lauded Andrew Pern’s restaurant-with-rooms on the edge of the North York Moors, which has a Michelin star and ambience on tap.

‘Nothing could have prepared us for the beauty of Wold Cottage, where Katrina welcomed us with warmth and kindness.’

Above the dene (ravine with a stream), surrounded by ‘attractive woodland’, sits Peter Candler’s ‘impressive’ 19th-century hotel.

‘Wonderful location in rural Northumberland. Friendly, peaceful; superb dinners and a lovely breakfast.’

‘Silver, copper, glass, china, pictures, rugs’ and other treasures are ‘trustingly displayed’ at Tim Culkin and Austin Lynch’s ‘wonderfully eccentric B&B’ just off the town square.

'Just outside a picturesque little village’, host to an annual gooseberry show, in the North York Moors national park, this ‘high-quality B&B’ is run by owners Georgina and Michael Curnow.

Dee and Richard Slade’s hybrid of pub and hotel in the empty reaches of Northumberland again reached for the stars with its unique blend of sustainable hospitality and astronomy.

Developments are afoot at this hotel, centred on a Georgian coach house, ‘in a glorious setting on a huge estate with beautiful walled garden’.

‘Effortless charm and warmth’ personify Tiina Carr’s ‘vibrant’ hotel, a ‘stone’s throw’ from the Botanical Gardens.

Guests are greeted with a hot drink and ‘a slice of something sweet’ at this Victorian town house B&B within easy reach of the city centre.

Peace, quiet and a slapup breakfast are to be found at a B&B in England’s oldest active convent, next to the city’s medieval walls.

Opposite Red Beck, the stream that once powered its machinery, this former mill draws visitors to the wooded Shibden valley.

Michael and Sasha Ibbotson’s village pub-with-rooms has stone flags, wood panelling and log fires – the legacy of three centuries of hosting visitors following an ancient Celtic trail to York.

International joie de vivre is found in well-travelled Charlotte and David Reilly’s revamped former Victorian school and headmaster’s house.

Travellers heading between London and Sunderland have long stopped at this Georgian inn which skirts the North York moors.

A warm welcome awaits at Denise Carter’s ‘enjoyable, good-value’ B&B at the centre of a ‘lovely’ market town.

Facing the leafy Stray’s open parkland, this alluring town-centre hotel is in a seamlessly converted Victorian coach house.

‘Just perfect,’ says readers this year of Kathryn and Stuart Dobson’s large Victorian manor house in the heart of Weardale.

Head straight out onto beautiful moorland from the doorstep of Peter and Sarah Garnett’s Edwardian guest house in a scenic village within the North York Moors National Park.

‘In a quiet part of the village, overlooking the duck pond,’ Jacquie Pern and Peter Neville’s ‘very comfortable hotel’ finds favour with trusted readers.

The Buchanan family has run this ‘heart-warming’ hotel for two generations, but, bar two short breaks, it has been a local hostelry since the 16th century.