Widescreen vistas of salt marshes and big skies rush to this family-friendly, quayside hotel. Helmed by Emma Stannard, with 'universally friendly and efficient staff', the north Norfolk grand dame is approaching its centenary.

Wisteria festoons Wendy and Jim Sarton’s peaceful manor house, in a picture-postcard village at the heart of Constable country.

‘The drama of dinner is played out in fine style’ at Tracy and Galton Blackiston’s ‘gorgeous’ restaurant-with-rooms in a coastal village.

A tiny lane just off the high street in a bustling market town leads to a striking Palladian villa set by a circular courtyard of hornbeam trees.

In ‘a great location, just across from the beach’, Michael Pritt’s Victorian hotel has been family owned and run since 1920. ‘It always delights us,’ say readers who visit every year.

There is no mystery to the appeal of Emma and Hugh Asher's ‘comfortable, 'most welcoming', country hotel with strong Agatha Christie associations.

A ‘cosy, friendly restaurant-with-rooms’, this timber-frame, former 15th-century merchant’s house has been an inn for some 400 years.

‘A lovely hotel with efficient, friendly staff,’ declares a trusted Guide reader this year after a third visit to the Nye family’s inn, which gazes across tidal salt marshes to Scolt Head Island and the open sea.

In landscaped gardens that gently melt into Constable country, with tables for alfresco drinking and dining, 'one of Suffolk’s oldest pubs has been renovated very smartly’.

‘One of the most unusual hotels we've ever visited.' Guide inspectors were left reeling by art dealer Ivor Braka's pub-with-rooms in the deer park of Gunton Hall.

Liz and Rob Cameron’s ‘beautifully presented’ B&B is ‘well located’, in 'walking distance of the whole city’.

New arrivals at this boutique B&B, in a ‘quiet, attractive street’ close to the seafront, are welcomed with ‘delicious’ afternoon tea and cakes.

A country retreat just outside St Albans occupies an extended 300-year-old manor house, once the home of Lord Louis Mountbatten.

In ‘a beautifully rural setting’, the North Norfolk countryside stretches away on all sides from Tim and Janie Elwes’s ivy-covered Georgian inn.

In a pleasant market town, Annie Rowley’s artful Georgian B&B is an Aladdin’s cave of vintage glassware, sculptures and ‘an unbelievable collection’ of objects.

A modern spa hotel, staffed by a friendly, welcoming team, in a 19th-century watermill in lovely surroundings five miles from the city centre.

With views across gently undulating Hertfordshire countryside, this sprawling old building, with its outlying stables and barns, dates back to the 15th century.

‘We enjoyed our stay', say trusted readers this year, returning to this much-loved Suffolk restaurant-with-rooms in a coastal town dominated by its castle.

A creeper-covered, former 18th-century coaching inn, The Neptune has been run as a ‘most enjoyable restaurant-with-rooms’ since 2007 by Kevin and Jacki Mangeolles – and has held its Michelin star since 2009.

Built in 1700, and once home to the Lord Mayor of Norwich, this 'well-placed' luxury B&B is run 'with enthusiasm' by father and daughter Dennis and Holly Bacon.

In a rural village overlooking a medieval packhorse bridge across the River Kennett, this ‘revitalised’ Victorian boozer was the first venture for Philip Turner’s spreading Chestnut group.

An opulent wedding venue, hotel, art gallery and cookery school in one, The Assembly House offers history and contemporary style in a Grade I listed city-centre location.

Overlooking verdant Parker’s Piece, this large, family-owned hotel is a short stroll to colleges, shops and cafés.

By the River Bure, ‘perfect peace and quiet’ drifts across ‘lush grounds’ up to James Holliday and Anna Duttson’s ‘splendid’, wisteria-hung Georgian house.