The River Marlais runs by the garden of Paul Bennett and Melissa Hurley’s 16th-century country house in a village on the edge of Brechfa Forest.

‘In a lovely location’, Sarah Hudson’s restored coaching inn on the banks of the River Monnow continues to delight readers.

‘You sense that hospitality comes naturally to the owners and their team.’ A Guide insider was impressed by Edward and Louise Sykes’s ‘personable’, family-run restaurant-with-rooms inside the Pembrokeshire Coast national park.

‘An example of what a British seaside hotel can do.’ Trusted readers were impressed by Lindsey and Andrew Evans’s coastal property, created with an ‘ambition, vision and style one might associate with California or Australia’.

At the end of a long drive, Lisa Hutton’s ‘welcoming’ Italianate villa stands ‘in stunning grounds’, a mile outside Lampeter.

Rich in antiques, fine wood panelling and painted ceilings. this sumptuous, well-refurbished country house hotel, in a historic Victorian manor house, lies on the edge of Snowdonia national park.

In the verdant Elwy valley, this handsome sandstone inn is well placed for country and coastal walks.

‘Overall, a very enjoyable stay.’ With extensive views over the Tywi estuary, David and Wendy Beaney’s restaurant-with-rooms brings ‘stylish minimalism down to a fine art’.

‘Not quite the back of beyond’, but this restaurant-with-rooms ‘in a very pleasant, quiet, rural location’ is well worth the trek, according to trusted Guide readers.

A ‘fabulous’ art collection still adorns this Jacobean mansion, which was opened as a hotel by the late Sir Bernard Ashley in 1990.

Clustered on the edge of a spectacular tidal estuary, this mansion house hotel – the focal point of Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis’s Italianate village – has welcomed guests including H G Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell.

Across from the seafront, this long-established, family-run restaurant-with-rooms is helmed by two husband-and-wife teams, Sally and Dean Fuller, Sally’s sister, Catherine Walsh and her husband, Patrick.