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

After more than two decades, Frances and Bill Atkins have sold their cherished, creeper-covered 18th-century stone coaching inn overlooking the green in a Dales village – but fans should take heart.

We have readers who return year after year to this ‘delightful, comfortable’ B&B with panoramic views across the North Yorkshire countryside.

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.’

‘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.

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

A unique, centuries-old working waterwheel helps generate business for Jane and Neil McNair’s ‘warm and welcoming’ guest house in the Yorkshire Dales national park.

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

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

An ideal base for exploring James Herriot country, Robert and Sheila Mitchell’s ‘relaxing, welcoming’ B&B offers great walking and cycling routes, straight from the door – and ‘splendid’ facilities for wet or muddy kit.

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.

Guests step straight into a ‘grand entrance hall’ at this B&B in a village in the Yorkshire Dales national park.

St Mary’s ‘stunning spire’ rises like Jack’s beanstalk – a heavenly marker of the approach to James and Kate Mackenzie’s ‘sublime’ pub-with-rooms.

‘Informal and friendly’, Jane Ratcliffe’s ‘utterly peaceful’ B&B stands on a hillside overlooking rolling Yorkshire countryside.

‘The tranquillity is very appealing’ at the Stainsby family’s 18th-century coaching inn-turned-gastropub in a hamlet on the slopes of the Washburn valley.

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

‘High on the hills’ near Huddersfield, this ‘friendly’ roadside drovers’ inn has ‘detour-worthy food’; ‘tremendous views to all sides’ are nearly as impressive.

Overlooking the surf-licked sands of North Bay, Donna and Mike Buttery’s unassuming guest house is liked for its ‘good central position’ and the ‘warm welcome’ of the hosts.

For over 100 years, visitors have crossed the cobbled square of a Dales village in search of sustenance and safe harbour at this striking limestone house.