A long winding drive leads past a lake to this Victorian mansion, remodelled in the 1940s in the style of a Loire château, with parkland, fountain and 17th-century dovecote.

Tables are set for some seriously good dining at Andrew and Gaynor Riley’s restaurant-with-rooms, occupying the former showroom of Sir Gordon Russell, wartime pioneer of utility furniture, in a picture-postcard Cotswold village.

Pam Talboys runs her ‘beautifully appointed’ B&B on a quiet cul-de-sac in this honey-hued village.

Judy Gardner’s restaurant-with-rooms and purpose-built cookery school sit amid a working farm in the Avon valley.

Within easy reach of the city centre and Worcester cathedral, this ‘spotless’ B&B is in a ‘peaceful’ rural hamlet, just right for ‘a good night’s sleep’.