Run with ‘an easy, informal air’, Graham and Rachel Bucknall’s ‘bright’, ‘lively’ restaurant-with-rooms on the historic Union Canal has ‘all the character you could hope for’.

Soak in the ‘great, cosy, country-pub atmosphere’ at this log fire-warmed waterside inn, where even the resident whippet is an ‘affable character’.

Resilience pays off at Judith Fish’s near-legendary, white-painted hostelry on the shores of the Applecross peninsula.

Katrina and William Reynolds run their ‘good-value’ restaurant-with-rooms in a rural village by the River Whiteadder.