‘Bravo! I spent three marvellous days at The Lygon Arms in the Cotswolds.’ A reader in 2019 raves about her stay at this Elizabethan coaching inn with roots in the 1300s.

In a picturesque village of honey-stone houses, tea shops, antique shops and galleries, Andrew and Gaynor Riley’s restaurant-with-rooms occupies a 17th-century building overlooking the Green.

On fine days, guests eat and drink alfresco in front of this 15th-century inn, watched over by two towering clipped yews.

A wisteria-festooned arch frames the entry to this prettily refurbished hotel, in a hilly Cotswold town.

Everyone agrees about the ‘stunning setting’ of this 18th-century dower house high in the Malvern hills: ‘One of the best views in the country.’

‘Beautifully appointed’, a B&B in a Grade II listed late 16th-century building overlooking a Cotswold high street of mellow stone houses.

Imagine that a 'stylishly renovated' château has been lifted from the Loire valley and set down in 'magnificent' parkland with lake, fountain and 17th-century dovecote, all in deepest Worcestershire.

Pickles entrepreneur Judy Gardner preserved the historic character of a timber-frame farmhouse and outbuildings when she restored and converted them to create a stylish restaurant with ‘beautifully decorated’ rooms.

In a ‘unique and peaceful’ location, yet within easy reach of the town centre and Worcester cathedral, Chrissie Mitchell’s ‘spotless’ and ‘very reasonable’ B&B is ‘surrounded by delight’.