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