Known simply as ‘The Pig’ until it farrowed, the first of Robin Hutson’s growing family of Pig hotels (see index) occupies a hunting lodge in the New Forest.

There’s plenty of laid-back glamour at this Georgian lodge in the heart of the New Forest, with a relaxed, family-friendly vibe and well-regarded spa.

A former shipbuilder’s house in a Georgian hamlet on the Beaulieu river, where the New Forest meets the Solent, is today a shipshape and stylish dog-friendly hotel with 'very pleasant staff'.

In rolling New Forest countryside, this Victorian verderer’s manor house overlooking grazing deer is today a stylishly updated hotel with a well-regarded restaurant and a cosy duo of spa treatment rooms.