This grand stately home was almost scrapped for timber in the 1920s. Imagine! Thankfully, the...
Middleport Pottery’s café is a nostalgic find. In this canalside spot that is true to its...
The Leeds and Liverpool Canal washes through this former weaving village, bringing with it crowds...
Low Sizergh is a paragon of happy animals, organic farming, community growing schemes,...
Cosy and inviting with iron windows, bare brick walls and wooden panelling, the café at the Emma...
Greenhouses, it seems, make wonderful cafés. The Applestore fills a beautifully rustic glasshouse...
There's something comforting about visiting a family-run business. The award-winning Dalesman...
A pen of goats bleat for their breakfast outside Red Bank Farm Shop, while Limousin and Angus...
The flat whites at The Hall, an inauspicious looking 1930’s Art Deco parish hall, have been...
Leyland’s Worden Park is a haven of mature woodlands, meadows and playgrounds. The 18th-century...
The Plough, the modern incarnation of a classic coaching inn, is a popular dining and...
Not content with being England's official Book Town (even the bus shelter has a good selection),...
Brockholes is a nature lover’s paradise with a unique, strikingly modern visitor village that...
The Queen's Head pub has been restored by the Lowther family, of Askham Hall, whose masterplan is...
Tebay sits amid the bracken-dabbled Cumbrian hills: the mothership of good motorway services. The...
You’re as likely to rub shoulders with narrowboaters as landlubbers at this countryside farm...
Kenyon Hall Farm, on the Cheshire and Lancashire border, has been lovingly tended by the Bulmers...
Congratulations are in order - welcome to the North West's Farm Shop of the Year and the UK's...
Earthlings and would-be astronauts pull in here to be wowed by the enormous, 90m-high Lovell...
This magnificent house on the edge of the Lake District (the ancient family home of Lord and Lady...
Sister to glamorous Askham Hall hotel and the Queen's Head pub down the road, this low,...
A labour of love for owner Peter Stott, Larch Cottage is a rambling, theatrical beauty, a maze...
Swing off the M6 and into the Cheshire countryside to find the Ginger and Pickles tea-room at...
If you're ogling counters full of pies topped with birthday greetings; multi-tiered pork pie...
If you love glamping, you’ll love ogling Laing’s gorgeous, hand-crafted shepherd’s huts and...
A handsome, open-armed pub just minutes from the M6. Inside is snug and easy-going: chairs and...
Penrith stands on a route to Scotland that’s been strategically important since Roman times and...
For delicious, freshly baked goodies, look no further than the Three Hares, run with love by...
Pioneer has only recently flung open the doors to its new food hall and café, and it’s already a...
A dash through leafy Cheshire towards Macclesfield leads to pretty countryside and breakfast or...
The ever-hospitable Pear family, who are also behind the popular (and posh) Pecks restaurant...
Beetham is a beautiful, narrow-laned, Postman Pat-styled village of stone houses on the...
