‘The place breathes class,’ says a Guide inspector of Jake Dinsdale’s Jacobean-style country house, set high in the Yorkshire Dales on the Pennine Way.

Overlooking the village pond, this golden-stone group of buildings set around a pretty courtyard ticks all the boxes for country house comforts, memorable food and good service.

Traditional pub features of local ales in a fire-warmed snug are mixed with a smarter dining room with candlesticks and polished tables at the Buchanan family’s 16th-century coaching inn.

Devotees of this thatched village pub-with-rooms with its Michelin-starred cooking and quirky style will be thrilled when it fully re-opens in autumn following 2021’s disastrous fire; rooms and breakfast, meanwhile, are unaffected.

A circular drive, creeper-covered facade, rolling lawns and woodland are as you would expect of a country home once a retreat for circuit judges.

Not so much a hotel as a grand country estate, with bedrooms in cottages, former stables and outbuildings, a restaurant in the coach house and 200 acres to explore.

This Edwardian suburban villa, on the Peak District side of the city, surprises with Scandi-chic rooms, a buzzing restaurant and relaxed vibe.

In a quiet Yorkshire village, a mile from lovely Runswick Bay and on the edge of the North York Moors, this country inn is a beacon of good service, and is great value, too.

Real ales in the bar, a handful of smart rooms and a deserved reputation for its food make this ‘excellent-value’ village inn ‘a great stop-over near Harrogate’.

Log fires and settles downstairs, country-style bedrooms up: in this ‘sophisticated’ 18th-century inn, Paul and Helen Klein offer an ‘utterly authentic’ slice of rural Wensleydale hospitality.

A welcome staging post for travellers between Scotland and England, this revamped 18th-century coaching inn is now under new ownership.

An alluring update has brought zesty eating and drinking spaces, refined bedrooms, a rooftop terrace and a modern fitness studio to this stately Georgian manor.

This Georgian town house, near the centre of a handsome Yorkshire Dales town, offers a personal welcome and good food in stylishly casual surroundings.

A successful blend of the traditional and the modern can be found at this smart village inn, with views over the Vale of York, chalet-style bedrooms, and classy food.

There are ‘tremendous views to all sides’ from this ‘friendly’ roadside drovers’ inn in Pennine countryside, but diners may find their attention drawn, instead, to the ‘detour-worthy food’ served within.

In a hilltop village along an ancient Celtic trail to York, this ‘friendly’, personably run pub-with-rooms has hosted visitors for centuries.

The atmosphere is one of ‘laid-back luxury without pretensions’ at this contemporary restaurant-with-rooms in a ‘beautiful Yorkshire Dales setting’.

‘Good food’ and ‘a friendly welcome’ await visitors at this Georgian roadside hostelry, on the western edge of the North York moors.

Facing the Stray’s 200 acres of open parkland, a Victorian coach house is today this jazzily refurbished town-centre hotel.