An 18th-century town house combines with its 17th-century neighbour as an atmospheric small hotel, a stroll from a charming survivor of this market town’s Georgian heyday, the Theatre Royal.

You can arrive by helicopter at the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire’s hotel 'in extensive lawned grounds with a view towards the River Wharfe’.

‘A hearty welcome’ awaits guests at Heather and David Armstrong’s farmhouse which has been in the host's family since 1904.

In ‘a lovely village' on the edge of the North Yorkshire moors, Andrew Pern’s ‘stylish old inn’ is a mix-and-thatch of ancient cruck-framed pub, dining extension, and lodgings in a converted building opposite.

Not a cottage at all but an elegant Georgian manor house once owned by playwright and newspaper proprietor Major Edward Topham, now run as a B&B by Katrina and Derek Gray.

A trove of arts décoratifs is ‘trustingly displayed’ in this Georgian house, ‘in a good situation off the market square'.

‘We had a delightful stay.’ Guests were impressed by Georgina and Michael Curnow’s well-located B&B within the North York Moors national park,

A stay at the Georgian family home of Nuala and Walter Sweeney, he a former MP, is ‘memorable for all the right reasons’.

More tasteful developments this year among the potpourri of Georgian estate buildings that create James Allison’s hotel 'in beautiful countryside a few miles from Scotch Corner’.

‘A beacon of how to do things properly: metropolitan style with Yorkshire substance.’ Generous praise from a regular reader this year for this ‘smart, sophisticated' hotel on the edge of Sheffield’s student quarter.

Across a cobbled driveway, Paul and Helen Klein’s ‘sophisticated’ 18th-century inn is an ‘utterly authentic’ slice of rural Wensleydale hospitality.

A scenic riverside walk away from the city centre, Steve and Tricia Townsley’s three-storey Victorian town house B&B offers an exceptional Yorkshire welcome.

Serenity is assured at this 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.

For three centuries Michael and Sasha Ibbotson’s village pub-with-rooms has hosted visitors following an ancient Celtic trail to York, and has been family-owned for two decades.

No cause for truancy at this revamped former Victorian school and headmaster’s house, in a pretty Dales village on the River Ure.

Overlooked by the ruins of Easby Abbey, Karen and John Clarke provide luxurious B&B accommodation in a rustic country house setting.

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

‘Excellent accommodation and a breakfast that sets you up for the day.’ Denise Carter extends a warm welcome at her ‘good value’ B&B in the centre of a ‘lovely’ market town.

At this playful, welcoming B&B in a solidly Victorian former rectory, owners Phil and Sarah Bucknall claim to ‘eschew chintz, embrace eclecticism’.

Across from The Stray’s 200 acres of open parkland, this alluring town-centre hotel is in a seamlessly converted Victorian coach house.

Head straight out on to beautiful moorland from the doorstep of Peter and Sarah Garnett’s ‘very comfortable’ Edwardian guest house in a scenic village within the North York Moors national park.

‘So glad it’s in your guide – keep it in.’ A strong endorsement this year for Jacquie Pern and Peter Neville’s hotel overlooking a duck pond.

Occupying a prime spot in a moors-edge market town, this ‘excellent hotel’ has been a local hostelry for 450 years, though the Buchanan family has been at the helm for just 37 of those.