Amid ‘some of the most remote and beautiful scenery one can find anywhere in the world’, Sheila Condie’s traditional Highland inn stands close to the ferry, overlooking the Sound of Sleat.

Flanked by the 18th-century stone bridge after which it’s named, Graham and Rachel Bucknall’s ‘characterful’ restaurant-with-rooms on the water has much to like.

A gateway to the north for 300 years, Debby McGregor and Brian Horsburgh’s unassuming inn – one of the oldest in Scotland – stands in a village on the edge of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs national park.

Rounding the final bend of an 11-mile stretch of winding single-track road, visitors might breathe a sign of relief at the sight of Judith Fish’s white-painted hostelry.

Guide readers this year ‘enjoyed the warm welcome’ from ‘helpful hosts’ Katrina and William Reynolds at their ‘good-value’ 18th-century restaurant-with-rooms in a Borders village.