You’ll feel your spirits immediately lift among the peaceful throng of flowers in Webbs’...
A dash through leafy Cheshire towards Macclesfield leads to pretty countryside and breakfast or...
Castle Donington's charming village centre, with its farmers’ market and Saxon history, is well...
Tapps is a charming garden centre situated in a spacious barn. It offers a cosy atmosphere with...
The Canal Quarter just east of central Lancaster is seeing some serious and ambitious cultural...
Slav and Daniela have run their well-liked café in this striking building - on the corner of Bank...
The Coffee Crate isn’t exactly the sort of place you expect to find behind a car wash at the edge...
A labour of love for owner Peter Stott, Larch Cottage is a rambling, theatrical beauty, a maze...
Johnson’s is a family farm with a difference, on the outskirts of Huntingdon. It’s not only home...
Haverfordwest is Pembrokeshire's ancient county town. It's a handy journey breaker before...
Grade I-listed Renishaw Hall, surrounded by award-winning Italianate gardens, has been the...
Forage (farm shop, butchery, cafe and takeaway) showcases the people and products of the Penllyn...
Handsome Castle Douglas is an 18th-century market town in the heart of one of Scotland’s most...
A detour into the colourful market town of Strathaven (‘Stray-ven’) will bring you to the...
This is a handsome, red-gabled pub on the road to Hungerford. It's spirited too, as it was...
The Langham Wine Estate is a wall-to-wall, grape to glass delight. Not content with being an...
The Pump is a captivating tea room alongside the mighty Bolsover Castle. Renovated brick by brick...
For delicious, freshly baked goodies, look no further than the Three Hares, run with love by...
Ever since the duck pond in Bredgar's village centre was restored as part of the Queen's Jubilee...
The Kitchen is not just a tea-room and coffee shop but also a studio for the cake artists at work...
One for the eco-minded, the Pitney Farm Café is one of just a few Soil Association-accredited...
At the very fringe of what was once the Roman Empire, Corbridge is steeped in history. It was...
On our roving research trip around Wales we stumbled across the Little Valley Bakery (and its...
The flat whites at The Hall, an inauspicious looking 1930’s Art Deco parish hall, have been...
A local landmark, The Speyside Centre peeps out of a pine forest in the Cairngorms. Once nearly...
The wood-panelled Potting Shed drips with foliage and is a failsafe pit-stop on your way to or...
If you’re stuck in the confusion of motorways that is Manchester’s ring road system, give...
You can do your weekly grocery round in Udder Farm Shop, which has a deli, fishmonger, gift,...
A family-run farm shop brushing the A35, Millers has a snug café and enough country fayre to fill...
Whether you explore the abundant display garden or farm shop shelves or simply seize a quiet...
The Smiddy Farm Shop stands on the site of the old village blacksmith’s, now transformed into a...
The family-run Three Trees Farm Shop & Café is part of a mixed farm housed on Chiseldon's...
