‘We were welcomed with a complimentary Pimm’s,’ write Guide insiders, who dined at James Moffett’s historic stone manor house in the Peak District national park.

‘The hotel, its staff and food were exquisite,’ a reader writes of an anniversary visit to Max and Susan Fischer’s stone manor house, in a village on the fringe of Chatsworth Park.

Built in 1652 as a manor house, this stone inn on the edge of the Peak District national park is owned by Lord and Lady Manners of nearby Haddon Hall

A 19th-century cottage and barn combine as one exceptional B&B on private land within the Peak District national park.

Gazing across the lake in Buxton’s ‘elegant, well-wooded main park’, the Victorian B&B’s ‘fine premises’ earned a return visit and more praise from trusted Guide correspondents.

With ‘superb views’ of spectacular limestone cliffs, Chris and Zoe Hipwell’s Georgian town house hotel is ‘a very special spot’ near the River Derwent.

On a 150-acre working farm, clucking hens are the only neighbours at this Joan and Martin Slack’s 'charming, welcoming’ B&B in the Derbyshire Dales.

A charming stopover not far from the M1, Charles and Charlotte Meynell’s B&B in a listed Georgian manor house has bags of country house style and a splendid walled garden.

Vibrantly colourful inside, Rob and Roberta Aitken’s handsome Victorian B&B occupies a historic mill village near Darley Abbey.

A hotel of character in a Peak District village, The George is hundreds of years old. Owner Eric Marsh likes to say 500 – but the deeds prove only 300.

Approached along winding lanes, past dry stone walls, Gilly and Simon Groom’s ‘wonderfully quiet’ Elizabethan stone house is surrounded by a working sheep farm.