The chef holds a Michelin green star for his superb tasting menus at this neo-Jacobean Victorian country pile in wooded grounds on the edge of Snowdonia National Park, where past guests have included Queen Victoria and Winston Churchill.

Huddled below wooded hills, beside a stone bridge over the River Monnow, this whitewashed former 17th-century coaching inn is delightfully at ease in the landscape.

Occupying two waterfront former warehouses, part of the town's maritime heritage, this new hotel has bedrooms modelled on captains' cabins and lined with reclaimed timbers.

A 19th-century Italianate villa in 14-acre grounds, with views across the gently rolling Teifi valley, is today a hotel and popular wedding venue with an in-house beauty parlour and romance in its very fabric.

There is a spirit of inclusiveness about this family-friendly, singularly accessible clifftop hotel and spa, with a wide range of rooms and suites, from cheap and cheerful to luxury, and a menu to suit most tastes.

This former coaching inn in the heart of Cowbridge, with its fashionable shops (and just a few miles from the Wales Coast Path, too), is popular with both locals and visitors.

Overlooking the Tywi estuary, this contemporary restaurant-with-rooms in a restored Georgian mansion is enjoyed for its 'really lovely hospitality, food and accommodation.'

A Victorian mock-Tudor fishing lodge in wooded grounds on the River Irfon is today a spa hotel and foodie destination with a country house ambience and views to the Cambrian mountains.

The farmhouse on the Evans family's working farm has been elegantly styled with wallpaper and furnishings faithful to its Georgian origins, while outbuildings have been used to create more rustic-chic suites.

Overlooking St Bride's Bay, a 19th-century windmill tower forms the centrepiece of this contemporary art hotel with a wide choice of generously supplied bedrooms, and a restaurant serving creative, modern dishes.

A tree-lined drive leads to this 17th-century Wye Valley mansion, remodelled in 1912, replete with country-house comforts, important artworks, and a well-regarded fine-dining restaurant.

There is nothing chintzy about this B&B, an Edwardian vicarage with views to the sea, where the hosts serve a locally sourced breakfast with home-baked bread and can provide a tapas hamper for supper.

Trained chef Alan Latter welcomes guests to this B&B on the organic dairy farm where he grew up, with characterful bedrooms, including one converted horsebox, and food sourced on the very doorstep.

Two 16th-century buildings above the medieval castle combine as one inn with seven well-presented bedrooms, an aviation-themed bar, and a restaurant serving modern British cooking with a Thai twist.

Four nights a week, Bryan Webb cooks exciting menus of local produce at this restaurant-with-rooms, with elegant, traditional bedrooms in the Georgian house, where he and wife Susan have been welcoming guests for more than four decades.

A 12th-century castle on a rocky outcrop is the unlikely setting for this smart contemporary B&B with ancient features, modern luxuries and free transfers to Blas restaurant at sister hotel Twr y Felin.

High above the town, a modern hotel with 'exceptional' seascapes that are as restorative, perhaps, as the calm that washes over guests in the award-winning spa.

In landscaped gardens, with woodland path, river and meadow, this Victorian Tudorbethan rectory has modern interiors, dramatic abstract artworks, cosseting touches, and complimentary transfer to restaurant Blas at sister hotel Twr y Felin.

Spruce, modern bedrooms occupy a lake-view lodge and single-storey barns set around a courtyard at this excellent family-run B&B in countryside three miles from Narberth.

Magnificent views over Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan spread below this hotel just north of the city with the air of a country retreat.