Nature lovers stuck on the M25 should stop off at the Rickmansworth aquadrome, a 41-hectare...
The succour of this Georgian coaching inn, set at the edge of the Marlborough Downs, is not to be...
A large blackboard outside advertising film nights and game supper evenings underscores the...
For those heading for the Suffolk coast, Friday Street Farm Shop has to be one of your grocers of...
Like all the best farm shops, Rumwell started life as a small stall selling potatoes and...
Crazy Bear seems an appropriate moniker for a group that encompasses hotels, restaurants, bars,...
This lovely café is tucked amid the flowers of Russell’s Garden Centre at the outskirts of...
The Village Café is a new addition to the Bidford high street, and has been an instant hit with...
One of the best local food shops in Somerset, Brockley Stores started life 80 years ago as a...
From the moment you swoop past the elegant landscaped entrance you’ll be revived by Burford’s 15...
An 18th-century beer house turned coaching inn, The Swan was refurbished by new owners in 2014...
This magnificent house on the edge of the Lake District is the ancient family home of Lord and...
The ever-hospitable Pear family, who are also behind the popular (and posh) Pecks restaurant...
Traditional crow-stepped gable, quirky nooks and of course a sundial in the corner, this café is...
A lovely farm shop and café in an old stone barn across the road from the village croquet green....
Diversification is key for today’s farmers to survive, which has given the UK a wave of wonderful...
A cracking country pub, the Royal Oak stands at the edge of the Chilterns, not far from the...
Isabel Revill set up shop in the old stable 15 years ago with little more than a cash tin and a...
Originally built to serve the RAF airfield that stood here in the war, the former squadron...
A wonderfully ramshackle collection of old farm buildings on a former dairy farm transformed...
Opposite the conical ‘village lock up’, this listed building’s former life as a farrier’s lends...
Penrith stands on a route to Scotland that’s been strategically important since Roman times and...
The Green Dragon bustles with customers day round, a sure sign that Jay brothers Adam and...
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal washes through this former weaving village, bringing with it crowds...
Slip into the Royal Oak and you’ll be greeted by a cosy village pub of tartan carpets,...
The scenery alone makes a diversion here worthwhile – set between rolling hills the Larder has a...
Lose yourself in the aisles of the gargantuan Malt House Emporium, a two-storey warehouse on the...
There’s a wonderful homely feel to The Boars with its vintage furniture, posies of flowers on...
You’d be forgiven for thinking the blue-framed windows, handsome front door and low ceilings of...
Explore the abundant display garden, browse the homewares, stock up in the farm shop or take a...
Pull in here if you’re hankering after a hot chocolate on your way through Scotland. Iain Burnett...
Friends and next-door neighbours Pam and Chris set up The Station Coffee House to bring good...
