Far from the hurrying world, this former coaching Iinn stands amid Wordsworth’s northern Lakes.

A babbling brook etches a course past Louise Dinnes’s ‘good-value, thoroughly dependable’ Victorian pub-with-rooms, where visitors find ‘outstanding food’ and ‘welcoming, efficient service’.

‘Always a favourite’ of Guide friends in the north, Richard Rose’s 300-year-old pub-with-rooms is in ‘one of the prettiest villages in south Lakeland’. It is promoted to a full entry this year.

In the Lyth valley, Becky and Ash Dewar’s 16th-century hostelry is a village pub ‘with a modern twist’.

A home-away-from-home mood permeates this ‘lively, friendly’ stone-built pub-with-rooms in a Ribble valley village.

The sun and moon make their haste, but this 400-year-old inn near the river Lune remains a dependably restful spot for travellers, walkers and their dogs.

Buzzy design and imaginative French-inflected cooking attract visitors from near and far to Julie and Patrick Beaumé’s 17th-century coaching inn.

In a scenic village outside Manchester, Philip Whiteman’s ‘well-kept, traditional’ inn occupies an 18th-century coaching house.

Ideally placed for exploring the Lake District and the Yorshire dales, Paul Spencer's laid-back inn sprawls comfortably on the road to Lupton.