‘We enjoyed it all.’ ‘Charming host’ Amanda Lane greets guests with home-baked treats – perhaps ‘the best shortbread ever’ – at her ‘impressive’ Edwardian B&B in acres of landscaped gardens on the crest of the North Downs.

Modern, Kent-inspired cuisine draws guests to this smart restaurant-with-rooms, in a little village between Dover and Folkestone.

An ‘enjoyable’ pub-with-rooms, this16th-century hall house has been updated with stylish, unfussy bedrooms and a buzzy, village-hub feel.