The woodland setting of this restaurant-with-rooms offers tranquillity and Michelin-starred dining that suits walkers as well as those looking to sit back and relax.

With a moat-turned-lake, walled kitchen garden and rustic barn, this Jacobean manor house is now a smart restaurant-with-rooms turning out Michelin-starred food.

The lonely setting of this former coaching inn, half a mile from the Scottish border, belies its chic bedrooms and creative cooking.

Watch the tide race in from Robert Lyons and Lesley Wheeler’s traditional pub-with-rooms overlooking the Levens estuary – it’s a thrilling sight that harks centuries back to the days when the inn was a stopover for coaches and horses before they crossed the sands to Lancaster.

On the High Street of a small, book-loving town at the foot of the Howgill fells, this 17th-century inn has been sympathetically updated by chef/patron Nina Matsunaga and her husband, James Ratcliffe, a Dales native.

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 and a relaxed atmosphere.