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Titchwell Manor - 20% Midweek Discount Special Offer

Brancaster

‘A log fire was burning in a small sitting room’ when our inspectors arrived on a rainy night, at Eric Snaith’s Victorian farmhouse hotel overlooking field and marsh to the sea.

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The White Horse - 3rd Night Free Special Offer

Brancaster Staithe

‘A lovely hotel with efficient, friendly staff,’ declares a trusted Guide reader this year after a third visit to the Nye family’s inn, which gazes across tidal salt marshes to Scolt Head Island and the open sea.

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Congham Hall - Sunday Special Offer

King's Lynn

Close to Sandringham, a Georgian country house set amid lawns, orchards and woodland.

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The Farmhouse at Redcoats - 3rd Night Free Special Offer

Hitchin

With views across gently undulating Hertfordshire countryside, this sprawling old building, with its outlying stables and barns, dates back to the 15th century.

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The Blakeney Hotel, Holt

Widescreen vistas of salt marshes and big skies rush to this family-friendly, quayside hotel. Helmed by Emma Stannard, with ‘universally friendly and efficient staff’, the north Norfolk grand dame is approaching its centenary.

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Dedham Hall, Colchester

Wisteria festoons Wendy and Jim Sarton’s peaceful manor house, in a picture-postcard village at the heart of Constable country.

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Morston Hall, Holt

‘The drama of dinner is played out in fine style’ at Tracy and Galton Blackiston’s ‘gorgeous’ restaurant-with-rooms in a coastal village.

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Strattons, Swaffham

A tiny lane just off the high street in a bustling market town leads to a striking Palladian villa set by a circular courtyard of hornbeam trees.

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The Wentworth, Aldeburgh

In ‘a great location, just across from the beach’, Michael Pritt’s Victorian hotel has been family owned and run since 1920. ‘It always delights us,’ say readers who visit every year.

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Beechwood Hotel, North Walsham

There is no mystery to the appeal of Emma and Hugh Asher’s ‘comfortable, ‘most welcoming’, country hotel with strong Agatha Christie associations.

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The Bildeston Crown, Bildeston

A ‘cosy, friendly restaurant-with-rooms’, this timber-frame, former 15th-century merchant’s house has been an inn for some 400 years.

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The Rose & Crown, Snettisham

‘We had a wonderful stay. It’s a fabulous pub in a gorgeous village, and just a couple of miles from the sea.’

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The Crown, Stoke by Nayland

In landscaped gardens that gently melt into Constable country, with tables for alfresco drinking and dining, 'one of Suffolk’s oldest pubs has been renovated very smartly’.

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The Gunton Arms, Thorpe Market

‘One of the most unusual hotels we've ever visited.' Guide inspectors were left reeling by art dealer Ivor Braka's pub-with-rooms in the deer park of Gunton Hall.

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No. 33, Hunstanton

New arrivals at this boutique B&B, in a ‘quiet, attractive street’ close to the seafront, are welcomed with ‘delicious’ afternoon tea and cakes.

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Sopwell House Hotel, St Albans

A country retreat just outside St Albans occupies an extended 300-year-old manor house, once the home of Lord Louis Mountbatten.

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The Saracen’s Head, Erpingham

In ‘a beautifully rural setting’, the North Norfolk countryside stretches away on all sides from Tim and Janie Elwes’s ivy-covered Georgian inn.

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Quy Mill Hotel & Spa, Cambridge

A modern spa hotel, staffed by a friendly, welcoming team, in a 19th-century watermill in lovely surroundings five miles from the city centre.

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The Crown and Castle, Woodbridge

‘We enjoyed our stay', say trusted readers this year, returning to this much-loved Suffolk restaurant-with-rooms in a coastal town dominated by its castle.

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The Neptune, Old Hunstanton

A creeper-covered, former 18th-century coaching inn, The Neptune has been run as a ‘most enjoyable restaurant-with-rooms’ since 2007 by Kevin and Jacki Mangeolles – and has held its Michelin star since 2009.

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The Packhorse Inn, Newmarket

In a rural village overlooking a medieval packhorse bridge across the River Kennett, this ‘revitalised’ Victorian boozer was the first venture for Philip Turner’s spreading Chestnut group.

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Norfolk Mead, Norwich

By the River Bure, ‘perfect peace and quiet’ drifts across ‘lush grounds’ up to James Holliday and Anna Duttson’s ‘splendid’, wisteria-hung Georgian house.

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The Ship at Dunwich, Dunwich

Once a smugglers’ haunt, the creeper-covered red brick building has become a great base for twitchers, outdoorsy types and their dogs.

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Bedford Lodge, Newmarket

Amid acres of ‘lovely’ rose gardens and landscaped lawns, this family-run hotel combines old-fashioned comfort and modern flourishes with ‘superb service’.

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The Mistley Thorn, Mistley

Constable country reaches to the doorstep of this affable, historic restaurant-with-rooms in a village known for its swans.

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The Crown, Woodbridge

A ‘comfortable, welcoming’ spot in a small market town close to the Suffolk coast, this popular 16th-century coaching inn offers ‘cool’, modern interiors alongside traditional hospitality.

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Heacham House, Heacham

The wide sands and salt marshes of North Norfolk are within a flat, short-ish walk of Rebecca and Robert Bradley’s fine B&B.

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The Westleton Crown, Southwold

A bird call from the RSPB nature reserve at Minsmere, birders convene with locals at this 12th-century coaching inn, much-liked for its friendly atmosphere.

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Hintlesham Hall

Ipswich

One hundred and seventy-five acres of rolling countryside surround this Grade I listed country house, with opportunities for golf, clay pigeon shooting and boundless walks; treatments and a Jacuzzi in the restful spa. Characterful bedrooms, some timbered, some panelled, have four-poster of canopy beds. Fine dining menus in Carrier’s restaurant make use of fresh herbs and vegetables from the garden.

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Best hotels for walking in East Anglia

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Titchwell Manor - 20% Midweek Discount Special Offer

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The White Horse - 3rd Night Free Special Offer

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Congham Hall - Sunday Special Offer

King's Lynn

The Farmhouse at Redcoats - 3rd Night Free Special Offer

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