Not content with being England's official Book Town (even the bus shelter has a good selection),...
Roaring fires, flagstone floors, a piano, friendly Welsh welcome and home-cooked food on the...
Marooned in a sea of gorgeous shrubs and surrounded by emerald lawns, Fig and Olive restaurant...
Priory Farm Nursery, at the edge of the Sussex Downs, is a positive haven from the motorway. You...
Albert Beckett and his small herd arrived here from Shropshire in 1937. Three generations later,...
Beetham is a beautiful, narrow-laned, Postman Pat-styled village of stone houses on the...
The flat whites at The Hall, an inauspicious looking 1930’s Art Deco parish hall, have been...
Just off the motorway in the shadow of the fairytale Castell Coch, plan2ride is a pit-stop café...
Bunting-draped Betty Berkins could hardly feel more welcoming if your own favourite aunty ran the...
Many things to many people, Oldpost is a brilliant reinvention of Nutfield’s former Post Office....
A lovely old pub in a village wedged in a valley at the edge of Cardiff, the Kings Arms is a...
On the banks the River Alde, this vast complex of old Victorian maltings looks out over a...
Chirk Castle is a magnificent medieval fortress built on a rocky escarpment overlooking the Welsh...
Gilbies is frequently described as a hidden gem, tucked behind the main street in the leafy...
With food cooked over a wood-fired hearth, vegetables grown down the road at a horse-ploughed...
Pigs and poultry are big news at this family-friendly farm shop in the Suffolk countryside. It's...
The Courtyard is within a horse's neigh of Ascot. Fresh, relaxing and festooned with foliage,...
* Tea at Tapps now has lovely new owners and is called Tapps Café. Do visit their website (link...
The Stables at Kirklevington is a new, purpose-built bistro at Town End Farm's rural riding...
The Queen's Head pub has been restored by the Lowther family, of Askham Hall, whose masterplan is...
Life's too short to drink instant coffee. Enter Owens - named a 'game-changing coffee brand' - to...
Food miles are so low at the Minskip Farm Shop that you can see vegetables growing in the field...
When we first met Lucy she was racing off to bid at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers. We didn't want...
The unassuming car park gives little away but standing in the Clyde Valley between Lanark and...
Sister to glamorous Askham Hall hotel and the Queen's Head pub down the road, this low,...
Blasus is a Carmarthen institution for cheese connoisseurs and oenophiles. The word means...
Sometimes in life you take a risk...and it pays off. That's exactly what happened for Kate and...
The Meikleour Arms stretches our 'distance from the motorway' a tad but, with its focus on...
Cholderton is a handy halfway between the South West and The Big Smoke. It's a fully organic farm...
What do you do when your 18th-century village pub closes down? You buy and reinvent it, of...
Doddington Hall is a grand, late-Elizabethan mansion. Completed in 1600, it hasn't been sold or...
Originally opened as an alehouse in 1847 this rural inn was recently bought and refurbished with...
