Katrina and William Reynolds run their ‘good-value’ restaurant-with-rooms in a rural village by the River Whiteadder.

In peaceful countryside, Paul and Michelle Mattinson’s Georgian house is run as a ‘most welcoming’, child-free B&B.

Jeff and Jill Sutheran’s ‘superb’ B&B, in Seahouses, at the heart of the Northumberland coast, ‘fully deserves’ its praise, say Guide readers this year, who were made to feel ‘very much at home’.

In the centre of a pretty Borders town, this ‘excellent’, well-established hotel near the banks of the River Tweed has been run by the Henderson family for 46 years.