Guide readers this year ‘enjoyed the warm welcome’ from ‘helpful hosts’ Katrina and William Reynolds at their ‘good-value’ 18th-century restaurant-with-rooms in a Borders village.

Well-manicured lawns stretch away from Paul and Michelle’s ‘most welcoming’, Georgian house where tranquillity is part of the package.

At their home in a cobbled market town in the Scottish Borders, the Girdwood family’s ‘traditional’ B&B receives generous praise from a Guide regular in 2018.

Regular Guide readers laud Jeff and Jill Sutheran’s B&B, forged from a ‘delightfully converted’ Presbyterian church, as ‘a perfect base for exploring this beautiful part of the north-east’.