Fine dining is the order of the day at Max and Susan Fischer’s Jacobean-style Edwardian mansion in the Peak District, approached by a chestnut-shaded drive.

In a village known as the ‘jewel of the Cotswolds’, Andrew and Gaynor Riley’s restaurant-with-rooms occupies Sir Gordon Russell’s former furniture showroom facing the grass-fringed, chestnut-shaded ‘broad way’.

Julia and Nick Davies are bringing a breath of fresh air – and a few ‘tastefully flamboyant touches’ – to their 18th-century dower house high on the east side of the Malvern hills.

In a ‘charming setting’ by the River Wye, this ‘good-value’ restaurant-with-rooms occupies a ‘lovely old building’ a 15-minute walk, over the bridge, from town.

In a town that hosts a clutch of food and drink festivals every year, this ‘excellent-value’ restaurant-with-rooms is but a stroll from the popular Ludlow Food Centre.

Judy Gardner runs her rural restaurant-with-rooms and cookery school in an ‘attractive conversion’ of farm buildings, in a ‘charming, peaceful' village on the edge of the Cotswolds.