‘In a small village in a valley, surrounded by forest walks’, Annabel and Stephen Thomas’s 16th-century country house is ‘ideal for guests wishing to holiday with their four-legged friend’.

Cocooned in ‘lovely, peaceful grounds in glorious countryside’, Jean-Pierre Mifsud’s ‘welcoming’ Victorian country house hotel continues to offer an enjoyable bucolic break.

Embedded firmly in the Wye valley, Chris and Kirsty Harrod’s Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms again delighted readers’ taste buds in 2018.

‘A great base for exploring,’ Richard Ireton and Sarah Hudson’s ‘pleasing, white-painted coaching inn’ stands overlooking an old stone bridge across the River Monmow, while ‘behind it, green hills gently rise’.

Blond sofas, fluted pillars, chandeliers, paintings, oriental rugs, gilded mirrors… Opulence abounds in this bay-fronted Victorian former gentleman’s residence on the prom.

‘Intimate and eccentric’, this one-time cottage hospital on a ‘testing’ country lane has been converted into a ‘stylish’ rural guest house at the foot of Cadair Idris.

Surrounded by ‘handsome’ gardens bursting with rhododendrons, this ‘striking’ Italianate villa is a peaceful spot in an idyllic setting.

‘The name means “leg of stone”,’ a Guide inspector tells us – a reference to the rocks on and over which this ‘fabulous, ultra-modern’ B&B is built.

A walk through a wooded valley up from the sea leads to this imposing Edwardian vicarage above the village.

In a sylvan setting on the remote Lleyn peninsula, Gunna and Chris Chown’s Georgian country house has enchanted guests for over 30 years.

A romantic Jacobean mansion, first opened as a hotel in 1990 by the late Sir Bernard Ashley, remains home to his ‘fabulous collection of paintings, sculptures and antiques’.

‘The best of its kind.’ Standing in an ‘appealing’ village is Edward and Louise Sykes’s small, ‘equally professional and personable’ Georgian restaurant-with-rooms.

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 HG Wells, George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell.

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

‘As good as ever’, this ‘delightful’ small hotel occupies an 18th-century stone dower house (once the home of Sir Wilfrid Thesiger), in extensive grounds leading to the River Teme.

There’s much to shout about at this long-established, family-run restaurant-with-rooms in a pretty village of artisan shops and galleries.

‘Delightful, hands-on’ Neil and Marco Soares-Baines have transformed the former home of the Armstrong-Jones family into a luxurious B&B, set between the mountains and the sea.

In the verdant Elwy valley, Lynn Cunnah-Watson and Tim Watson’s handsome sandstone inn provides ‘utter relaxation’.

Riverside ambles and ‘by far the best breakfast of our holiday’ draw fans to this ‘very good’ B&B in a well-restored Pembrokeshire longhouse, a short drive from a pleasant market town.

In a prettily conserved mid-Wales town, a ‘charming’ restaurant-with-rooms occupies this historic coaching inn, where refined dining is matched by elegantly Provençal-style accommodation.