The luminous café alone at Ffin y Parc is worth a detour from the A5. The stately manor house...
Chirk Castle is a magnificent medieval fortress built on a rocky escarpment overlooking the Welsh...
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal washes through this former weaving village, bringing with it crowds...
If the word 'castle' had a collective noun, you'd use it to help describe Northumberland's...
Hemmed in by the Malvern Hills on one side and the river Severn on the other, this pocket of...
Skirt the tulip and sunflower field at the entrance to Alison and Ian’s working farm to find this...
What do you do when your 18th-century village pub closes down? You buy and reinvent it, of...
Set on the edge of the Earl of Plymouth’s estate, this fab farm shop is a microcosm of the foodie...
You'll find this prettily named place on the high street in Uddingston, a small town near Glasgow...
Wide open spaces, lakes to walk around and an enormous adventure playground (complete with...
A country home tableau – wicker dog basket, newspapers, enormous exotic flower arrangement, milk...
When you’ve had enough of the tailbacks, few things will cheer you up quite like a field full of...
The heady, scented gardens set the Hundred House apart, encircling this eclectic Shropshire...
Landlords Simon and Mike abandoned their high-flying management jobs in banking to take on the...
Just off the motorway in the shadow of the fairytale Castell Coch, plan2ride is a pit-stop café...
If the kitchen is the heart of the home, the Wellington Farm Shop is the centre of the...
Carmarthen is a convenient staging post if you’re heading to Pembrokeshire or on to Ireland by...
A light-hearted café-bar on Boston Spa’s high street, Tom Foolery is decorated whimsically with...
Pigs and poultry are big news at this family-friendly farm shop in the Suffolk countryside. It's...
Piled with unusual gifts, crockery, homeware, reclamation finds, greetings cards, furniture,...
An utterly idyllic spot in Wiltshire where you can malinger from dawn to sundown. The café and...
The evocatively named Lost Kitchen is a gift for seekers of the unusual. Housed in a traditional...
With a young family keeping them busy, Ryan and Lisa sought quality coffee close to home. Drawing...
The name for this record-spinning spot isn't there because its patrons are repenting their...
Northleach, a delightful (and mercifully comparatively quiet) Cotswold town, was once at an...
Darts Farm, on the Exe estuary, is a vibrant farming, shopping and eating hub. Links to the soil...
Earthlings and would-be astronauts pull in here to be wowed by the enormous, 90m-high Lovell...
Like something from a sweeping Merchant Ivory epic, Nymans is a garden lover's home for all...
With views reaching over the Nottinghamshire countryside and 16 delicious ice cream flavours,...
The Courtyard Craft Centre is a lovely pop-in near Poole, brimming with interesting folk and...
The Courtyard is within a horse's neigh of Ascot. Fresh, relaxing and festooned with foliage,...
Slav and Daniela have run their well-liked café in this striking building - on the corner of Bank...
