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.

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

‘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.

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'.

‘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.

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.