‘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.

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.

‘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.

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

Not far from the road to Scotland, Chef/patron John Topham and his wife, Claire’s, restaurant-with-rooms ‘is great at what it does: provide fantastic service, excellent food and comfortable rooms'.

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.

‘The progress made by a family of farmers who thought that they would like to run a restaurant is quite remarkable.’

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.