Top hotels for Autumn breaks
Top hotels for Autumn breaks
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Bowness-on-Windermere
With glorious views of Windermere and seven acres of spectacular grounds, this guest house feels more like a country house hotel, complete with wood panelling and ornate ceilings.
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New Milton
Readers are ‘unable to fault anything at all’ at this ivy-clad country house hotel on the edge of the New Forest, ‘the ultimate luxurious and indulgent treat’.
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Barnard Castle
Guide readers and their dogs love this village inn, with panelled dining room and a beamed locals bar warmed by a big open fire.
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Salcombe
It’s all about the sublime seaside setting at Keith Makepeace’s family-centric, dog-friendly hotel with ‘amazing views to take your breath away’.
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Veryan-in-Roseland
‘The Nare’s description of itself as “the country house hotel by the sea” sums it up nicely.
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Beaulieu
Wigeon and teal are arriving now to overwinter on the shining expanse of the Beaulieu River, in front of this Arts and Crafts-style Victorian hotel.
Corse Lawn House
Corse Lawn
Pink without and peachy within, this Queen Anne-style mansion, in a rural hamlet with views to the Malvern hills, has been owned by the Hine family since 1978.
Star Castle
St Mary's
The Francis family’s charismatic hotel, with many historic features, continues to please regulars, mainly for its ‘superb’ hilltop location, genial service and tip-top seafood.
Knockinaam Lodge
Portpatrick
‘A stiff walk from Portpatrick along the cliffs’ brings you to Sian and David Ibbotson’s Victorian hunting lodge overlooking the Irish Sea.
The Hare and Hounds
Tetbury
There is nowhere better in Britain to see spectacular autumn colour than at the National Arboretum, Westonbirt, a stroll from this Cotswold hotel.
Kinloch Lodge
Sleat
Stalking, fishing and foraging with the aid of a ghillie are all laid on at Lord and Lady Macdonald’s former hunting lodge on the shores of Loch Na Dal.
Biggin Hall
Buxton
In a small Peak District village, James Moffett’s ancient manor house is run as a hotel in a spirit of generosity, with complimentary drinks on arrival, and a packed lunch for walker, cyclist or angler.
The Three Chimneys and The House Over-By
Isle of Skye
In the remote north of Skye, a whitewashed stone crofter’s cottage overlooking Loch Dunvegan, with views to the peaks of Harris and North Uist, is home to an ambitious restaurant-with-rooms.
The Cottage in the Wood
Braithwaite
Autumn is a glorious time to visit Liam and Kath Berney’s restaurant-with-rooms on Whinlatter Pass, in England’s only true mountain forest.
Hotel Endsleigh
Tavistock
Hunter wellies wait by the door at Olga Polizzi’s dog-friendly ducal fishing lodge in parkland laid out by Humphry Repton, with the River Tamar running through.
The Gunton Arms
Thorpe Market
Close to the bracing North Norfolk coast, this dog-friendly pub-with-rooms is a showcase for owner Ivor Braka’s art collection, including works by the likes of Lucian Freud, Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst.
The Pig at Bridge Place
Canterbury
Take tea in a panelled bar with a log burner and deep, plush sofas, or cosy up in the snug or study, at this Grade I listed mansion, built in 1701, in a village close to Canterbury.
Hipping Hall
Kirkby Lonsdale
Between the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District – and just ten minutes from the M6 – Hipping Hall is a surprising foodie find with understated but luxurious bedrooms, a relaxed atmosphere and restful views.
Killiecrankie Hotel
Pitlochry
Standing in wooded grounds in the wooded Pass of Killicrankie, this former dower house is today a family-friendly country house hotel, run by owner Henrietta Ferguson.
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