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The Tempus
Doxford, Northumberland
From the chequerboard edifice chairs to the disco ball-glittered barroom and leopard print-cushioned bedrooms, this 41-bedroom edifice has much than a hint of Alice’s Adventures successful Wonderland astir it. The 2026 victor of Visit England’s golden grant for champion tiny hotel, the Tempus precocious opened 8 woody cabins overlooking the estate’s lake, and runs stargazing breaks successful concern with adjacent Kielder Observatory. This period sees the motorboat of wellness experiences, combining gentle yoga and dependable baths, portion foraging workshops observe the estate’s chaotic bounty. Alnwick, Bamburgh and kipper-smoking Craster are adjacent by.
Doubles from £121 B&B, thetempus.co.uk
The Old Bridge Inn
Aviemore, the Cairngorms
You tin walk, cycle, aquatics oregon kayak consecutive from the doorway of this pub and bunkhouse connected the banks of the River Spey successful outdoorsy Aviemore. This mellow gastropub serves smoked haddock chowder and Caribbean lamb curry pies on with Cairngorm Brewery’s ales – and you’re apt to drawback immoderate unrecorded people euphony too. Fresh from a caller revamp, its 7 vintage-inspired bedrooms are decorated successful autumnal shades of gold, green, rust and teal. Ranging from elemental dorms to en suite doubles and household rooms, they travel with entree to a shared room and eating country for DIY dinners and breakfasts.
Family rooms for up to five from £80 room-only, oldbridgeinn.co.uk
The Black Horse
Amberley, Sussex
Food is the large gully astatine this caller pub with rooms successful the South Downs. Run by farm-to-fork restaurateurs the Gladwin brothers, the 12-bedroom inn is their archetypal task extracurricular London, and their archetypal with accommodation. One happening they are profoundly acquainted with is section producers – not slightest their ain family. Beef comes from their farm, wines from their vineyard, Nutbourne, and immoderate of the pub’s artwork has been painted by household matriarch Bridget. Stay implicit and you tin aftermath to breakfasts of homemade brioche with just-laid eggs, farmhouse sausages oregon trout gravadlax. Stroll astir the village, with its castle hotel and pottery, oregon hike implicit to Arundel past drawback a bid backmost to Amberley.
Doubles from £125 B&B, blackhorse-pub.com
The Abergwaun
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire
Pembrokeshire is location to spectacular beaches, but if an autumn tempest blows in, it’s large to person galleries, cafes, pubs and cinemas wherever you tin instrumentality cover. That’s wherever Fishguard comes in. This tiny harbour municipality has softly blossomed implicit the past mates of years. The latest opening is the Abergwaun, a bistro with rooms launched successful July by the people down the adjacent Red Onion cafe. Feast connected locally line-caught seabass with kelp beurre blanc, past drift disconnected to slumber successful 1 of 5 smart, latte-coloured bedrooms. The adjacent day, instrumentality successful a pottery store astatine Tŷ Clai, hike on the Pembrokeshire seashore path for a Sunday roast astatine the Sailor’s Safety, oregon drawback a gig astatine Ffwrn.
Doubles from £140 B&B, theabergwaun.co.uk
The Lister Arms
Malham, Yorkshire Dales
Malham is 1 of the Yorkshire Dales’ large hiking hubs, with Malham Tarn, the amphitheatrical cliffs of Malham Cove, and Janet’s Foss and Gordale Scar waterfalls wrong casual scope – and staying successful the colony became a small easier this summertime with the opening of Lister Farmhouse. Its 13 bedrooms brace astute taupe, olive and blueberry fabrics with lukewarm wood and leather. Part of the expanded Lister Arms, which includes rooms astatine the inn itself and astatine a adjacent barn conversion, the caller farmhouse bedrooms are 2 minutes’ locomotion away, beside sister pub the Buck Inn. For breakfast, stroll crossed a packhorse span to the pub.
Doubles from £135 B&B, listerarms.co.uk
The Great Decoy
Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hampshire
Formerly the George & Dragon, erstwhile this Test vale pub with rooms opened successful June, its sanction was changed to the Great Decoy successful a motion to the area’s 2nd satellite warfare history, erstwhile the surrounding countryside was utilized arsenic portion of a web of decoy sites to gully force bombers distant from strategical targets. These days, a tempting premix of pub bangers (venison steak frites, wood-fired pizzas), plump-pillowed bedrooms and affordable rates is luring a much peaceful crowd. The pub is simply a low-beamed, candlelit haven and its 8 bedrooms premix antiques with agleam modern creation and jauntily striped, scalloped headboards.
Doubles from £90 B&B, thegreatdecoy.co.uk
The Riverside Inn
Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire
It was successful Ross-on-Wye successful the precocious 18th period that the creator and writer Rev William Gilpin acceptable the blueprint for British tourism. Popularising the picturesque, helium encouraged travellers to research the section scenery for pleasure, helping to found the thought of the British scenic flight (albeit infamously suggesting that “a mallet judiciously used” mightiness amended the ruined charm of Tintern Abbey). More than 2 centuries later, 5 elegant caller bedrooms person conscionable opened astatine the Riverside Inn, giving modern-day visitors a suitably comfy basal from which to research the area’s antiques and salvage shops, and stroll the leafy riverside pathways astir Symonds Yat. Named aft Charlie Mackesy characters, the rooms are decorated with finds from Baileys Home Store and different section businesses.
Doubles from £180 B&B, riversideinn-wyestreet.com
The William Cecil
Stamford, Lincolnshire
On the borderline of the Burghley estate, on 1 of Stamford’s cute-as-a-bonnet Georgian streets, this treasured edifice underwent a large renovation 2 years ago. Named aft Lord William Cecil, main advisor to Elizabeth I, the 18th-century gathering is location to 26 bedrooms decorated successful Bridgerton-meets-Babington chic, each chalky pinkish and sage greenish stripes, ginghams, velvets and chintz. The latest summation is Wild Floral, a botanical-inspired country launched this summertime successful collaboration with Lincolnshire decorator Sophie Allport. Head retired to research the copper-flecked parkland of Burghley House, past instrumentality for pheasant kiev and blackberry tart astatine Milly’s, the in-house bistro.
Doubles from £155 B&B, thewilliamcecil.co.uk
Corsham House
Corsham, Wiltshire
It was nary astonishment that Corsham was chosen arsenic a backdrop for the caller TV dramatisation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals – the marketplace municipality is simply a primetime destination. Wild peacocks roam its Georgian streets, a “secret” plot unwinds down stately Corsham Court – location to 1 of Wiltshire’s finest backstage creation collections – and autarkic shops and cafes rule. In the centre of it each is Corsham House, a caller brasserie and vessel store with rooms that opened successful July. Once a bank, it’s present profiting from the town’s “Bath successful miniature” credentials, serving its signature Corsham chips with chickenhearted brackish alongside abdominous rump headdress steaks, and putting guests up successful 11 tiny but daintily designed bedrooms painted successful shades of rose, damson and beech.
Doubles from £111 room-only, corshamhouse.com
The Copley Arms
Hessenford, Cornwall
Just disconnected the A387, betwixt Plymouth and Looe, this riverside pub with rooms is worthy detouring disconnected the beaten Cornish way for. Recently taken implicit by the mates down Lydford’s award-winning Castle Inn, its 17th-century halfway has been elegantly refurbished. Fill up connected food tacos oregon the drawback of the day, past caput upstairs, oregon into the cottage conscionable down the inn, to slumber successful 1 of 8 earthily coloured, softly lit bedrooms (the cottage rooms are the quietest). The pursuing morning, aftermath to a afloat Cornish earlier hiking a loop done the woods of the Seaton Valley oregon strolling a conception of the South West seashore path implicit to Looe.
Doubles from £100 B&B (two nights for £160 from Sept-April), copleyarms.co.uk
The Swallow Falls Inn
Betws-y-Coed, Eryri (Snowdonia)
Just crossed the roadworthy from its namesake waterfall, this erstwhile coaching inn reopened past twelvemonth aft a large overhaul, offering visitors a comfy and affordable basal for exploring Eryri nationalist park. Its 38 bedrooms are painted successful warm, muted shades and bookended by floral wallpapers, tongue-and-groove panelling and bright, metro-tiled bathrooms. Family rooms travel with sturdy woody bunk beds and, downstairs, you tin bid lasagne oregon sausage and mash successful a abstraction framed by fringed lampshades, floral curtains and mossy greenish paintwork. From the inn, you tin travel a riverside way into the colony of Betws-y-Coed oregon soak up the autumn colours connected 1 of the waymarked paths successful the adjacent Gwydir wood park.
Doubles from £76 B&B, inncollectiongroup.com
The Crown
Bildeston, Suffolk
Estate-to-plate eating is the cornerstone of this sunshine-hued Tudor inn betwixt Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich. One of respective Suffolk pubs and hotels owned by the Nedging Hall estate, who completed a sympathetic makeover this spring, it has 13 smartly understated caller bedrooms. It’s afloat plugged into the estate’s homegrown proviso chain; the owners besides run a butchery, room plot and East Anglia’s oldest brewery, Mauldons (for which they turn malt barley). Head retired connected a gentle three-mile loop locomotion to neighbouring Chelsworth, past instrumentality a spot by the eating room’s unfastened occurrence to feast connected treacle-cured pork ribeye with ail croquettes, and deliciously wibbly Basque cheesecake.
Doubles from £195 B&B, thebildestoncrown.com
The Customs House
Bowling, West Dunbartonshire
A hop, skip and leap (or 30-minute bid ride) north-west of Glasgow, this stylish caller edifice sits astatine the occidental extremity of the Forth and Clyde canal. Well-placed for towpath walks and cycles, it’s a expansive reimagining of what was built successful 1790 arsenic the customs location for Bowling harbour. There are 7 tweed-hued bedrooms successful the main building, each with a presumption of the h2o and each named aft a antithetic cargo, and a floating lodge suite was added this summer, on with a sauna and acold plunge. When the edifice opens successful a neighbouring gathering adjacent year, it volition run arsenic a full-service edifice but, for now, unit are lone connected tract during the day; evening arrivals are aforesaid check-in and continental breakfasts self-serve.
Doubles from £120 B&B, thecustomshousebowling.co.uk
Le Strange Arms
Old Hunstanton, Norfolk
Close to the RSPB reserve astatine Snettisham and the quality reserve astatine Holme Dunes, this agelong of northbound Norfolk coastline is simply a premier destination for spotting waders and waterfowl arsenic they halt to remainder connected their mode south, and is likewise restorative for humans. Follow a time of formation walks and sky-gazing with meal astatine recently renovated gastropub the Ancient Mariner – paper highlights see Barsham’s beer-battered food and chips, and cheeseboards ripe with section favourites Norfolk Dapple and Binham Blue – earlier walking crossed to sister edifice Le Strange Arms to sleep. Its much affordable modular rooms person yet to beryllium updated, but precocious renovated self-catering lodges and apartments enactment a modish mustard and navy rotation connected seaside chic.
Doubles from £91 room-only, lestrangearms.co.uk
Wild Duck
Ewen, the Cotswolds
Open fires? A scene-stealing, carved wood bar? Plates of buttery chickenhearted and chips? Double Diamond ale connected tap? If you were Pinterest-boarding the phantasy Cotswolds pub aft a yomp done the fields (or on the stream – the Thames Path starts 10 minutes’ thrust away), it would beryllium thing similar the Wild Duck. Just southbound of Cirencester, this 16th-century gardeners’ cottage turned coaching inn has been stylishly overhauled by section hospitality luminaries Sam and Georgie Pearman. Reopened successful March, it present has 5 bedrooms supra the pub and 14 others successful a caller wing, each decorated with practice wallpapers, Edward Bulmer paints, antique finds and custom-designed rugs.
Doubles from £150 B&B, countrycreatures.com
Prices are for October-November and were close astatine clip of publication
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