If you prefer a chat-fuelled chow down to a formal meal, beeline for Bootleggers in Hopeman with...
Owners Candida and Georgie stumbled across The Extra Mile and loved its suggestions, so we're...
The ever-hospitable Pear family, who are also behind the popular (and posh) Pecks restaurant...
The Meikleour Arms stretches our 'distance from the motorway' a tad but, with its focus on...
If you venture south off the A303 in South Petherton you'll enter a rural idyll, driving past...
If you're venturing cross-country between the M1 and A1(M) near Northampton, factor in a detour...
A bone fide all-rounder, Cobbs Farm Shop has a butcher, delicatessen, florist, cheese counter –...
Leyland’s Worden Park is a haven of mature woodlands, meadows and playgrounds. The 18th-century...
Blasus is a Carmarthen institution for cheese connoisseurs and oenophiles. The word means...
Sometimes, you're cruising along a rural country road and come across a hive of activity. Who are...
Isabel Revill set up shop in her rustic stable 20 years ago, with coins for fresh asparagus...
If you find yourself in the quaint, rural village of Cawthorne - perhaps after visiting Canon...
A short distance from Cambridge, Papworth Everard stands on the old Roman highway that once...
The A4019 from the M5 brings you almost to the door of this café, whose smiling staff have hearts...
A pen of goats bleat for their breakfast outside Red Bank Farm Shop, while Limousin and Angus...
Pretty Boroughbridge is bounded by rolling hills and pockets of history. Stroll along the river...
Romaldkirk is one of those lovely villages where little has changed in 200 years. It sits...
A friendly welcome awaits you in this village tearoom, once you have located it behind the car...
The Puffing Billy is a relaxed country pub just beyond the end of the M5 at Topsham. It’s more...
The folk at The Bridge were so proudly independent (and keen to join The Extra Mile) that we're...
Balsham’s former butcher’s shop has been at the centre of village life for more than 300 years....
There's something comforting about visiting a family-run business. The award-winning Dalesman...
To discover you're going to a cow shed for lunch mightn't spark the greatest joy...until you...
Teals is a wall-to-wall treat. Just off the A303 – and only 10 minutes from the A37 – it's a...
This book exists to bring you such first-rate finds as The Old Dairy, a rustic café on a working...
Pyne’s is a cracking farm shop and café serving excellent coffee and exceptional food – fast. The...
Once Cullompton’s family grocer as the original signwork still proclaims, the Bakehouse is now a...
A labour of love for owner Peter Stott, Larch Cottage is a rambling, theatrical beauty, a maze...
Doddington Hall is a grand, late-Elizabethan mansion. Completed in 1600, it hasn't been sold or...
'It's fresh and exciting because it's not posh' said Masterchef judge William Sitwell, naming...
A 15th-century coaching inn in the quintessentially English village of Dedham, the Sun Inn has an...
No quick roadside stop-off, Glenwhan Gardens and Arboretum are worthy of a half-day diversion if...
