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.

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.

‘Grassington House provided all I could want for a most enjoyable break in this busy but beautiful village.’ A full entry this year for Sue and John Rudden’s restaurant-with-rooms overlooking the cobbled square.

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