A former 18th-century shooting lodge swathed in Virginia creeper, this Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms, with ‘friendly service’, enjoys an ‘unsurpassed’ location in the rolling Yorkshire Dales.

In ‘a lovely village’ on the edge of the North Yorkshire moors, Andrew Pern’s ‘stylish old inn’ is a mix-and-thatch of ancient cruck-framed pub, dining extension, and lodgings in a converted building opposite.

John Rudden shows great attention to detail at this Georgian house on the village square. Even the butter is home made. Dishes range from simple fish and chips to, perhaps, Yorkshire lamb loin, breast, braised shoulder, potato, peas, wild garlic.

Tommy Banks was just 17 with dreams of a professional cricket career, when his dad bowled him a googly.

‘Just the place to break up trips across the border.’ Chef/patron John Topham and his wife, Claire’s restaurant-with-rooms is not far from the road to Scotland.

Hunt the mice at this refurbished hotel, restaurant and coffee shop, formed from two old buildings on the bustling market square.