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Not everyone wants to flight to the country; the built situation tin beryllium conscionable arsenic refreshing. Here, arsenic The Good Hotel Guide for 2025 goes unrecorded online, the editors prime 12 favourite bases from which to research the UK’s towns and cities...
Grays Court, York
Tucked distant down a narrow, cobbled street, this beauteous hotel, with an oasis plot bounded by the metropolis wall, dates successful parts from Norman times, with aboriginal additions. Bedrooms are furnished with antiques, 1 has a William IV four-poster, immoderate look retired to York Minster.
You tin luncheon connected tiny and ample plates successful the panelled Jacobean Long Gallery and dine connected integrated home-grown nutrient successful the Georgian Bow Room. Museums, creation galleries and autarkic shops are nearby.
Book it: rooms from £240, B&B grayscourtyork.com
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PR HANDOUT)The Cookie Jar, Alnwick, Northumberland
In the centre of a historical marketplace town, Debbie Cook has transformed a erstwhile convent into a amusive edifice and edifice serving modern British cooking. Each chamber has a Hypnos bed, home-baked cookies, a drench ablution and Penhaligon’s toiletries.
They’re each lovely, but the stand-out is the Chapel Suite with copper bath and stained-glass window. Alnwick Castle is practically adjacent doorway and Barter Books successful the disused Victorian presumption is bibliophile heaven.
Book it: rooms from £205, B&B. cookiejaralnwick.com
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PR HANDOUT)Darwin’s Townhouse, Shrewsbury
Animal and works wallpapers, maps, globes and natural-history artefacts adorn this Georgian townhouse named successful honour of Shrewsbury’s astir illustrious son. It’s a B&B with the ambience of a backstage home, with a dog-friendly plot lodge for those who privation to bring the beagle.
After meal successful the conservatory, you mightiness locomotion the River Severn way oregon research the town’s Tudor backstreets.
Book it: rooms from £140, B&B. darwinstownhouse.com
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PR HANDOUT)The Lime Tree, London SW1
Occupying 2 handsome 19th-century Belgravia townhouses, this edifice is praised for its understated charm, aft an extended lockdown redesign and refurbishment. Reasonably priced bedrooms travel successful assorted sizes, immoderate with a wrought-iron balcony, each precise chic with bully fabrics and Farrow & Ball colours.
Breakfast, brunch, airy lunches and beverage and cakes are served successful the Buttery, and guests tin usage the small backmost garden, with bully restaurants adjacent astatine hand, including the legendary Poule au Pot.
Book it: rooms from £215, B&B. limetreehotel.co.uk
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PR HANDOUT)The Old Bridge, Huntingdon, Cambs
A pick beverage awaits arrivals astatine this riverside edifice successful a marketplace municipality conscionable an hr by bid from London. Although nether caller owners, it remains a section institution, a affable drop-in with an all-day lounge menu, and foodie fare served successful the edifice oregon connected the patio.
There is simply a bully prime of characterful bedrooms, and a vessel store for regular vino tastings. A depository dedicated to Oliver Cromwell is housed successful the grammar schoolhouse helium attended.
Book it: rooms from £189, B&B. oldbridgehuntingdon.co.uk
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PR HANDOUT)Hart’s Hotel and Kitchen, Nottingham
Built successful 2003 to an eco-friendly design, connected the ramparts of what survives of Nottingham Castle, this sleek edifice stands successful a peaceful, leafy setting, distant from the metropolis bustle. Bedrooms and suites are contemporary, tasteful and uncluttered but generously equipped.
You tin dine oregon portion cocktails successful Hart’s Kitchen oregon alfresco, from a paper of originative takes connected the classics. Breakfast features freshly squeezed OJ and breadstuff from the owners’ bakery.
Book it: rooms from £169, room-only, cooked meal £17. hartsnottingham.co.uk
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PR HANDOUT)The Angel Hotel, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
In a marketplace municipality dubbed ‘the gateway to Wales’, this Georgian coaching inn offers spiffy, commodious rooms and suites for visitors, and societal gathering spaces for everyone. Food is served each time successful the Foxhunter Bar, with ceremonial eating from an eclectic paper successful the Oak Room. At meal determination are breads and pastries from the next-door Angel Bakery, portion fine-dining sister edifice the lauded Walnut Tree is 10 minutes distant by taxi.
Book it: rooms from £185 B&B. angelabergavenny.com
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PR HANDOUT)Brocco connected the Park, Sheffield
An Edwardian park-side villa has been brilliantly made implicit arsenic a Scandi-chic hotel. Each of the air-conditioned bedrooms has an espresso machine, astute TV, mini fridge, caller milk, homemade cakes and Bramley toiletries. The Dovecote country with freestanding copper bathtub commemorates a sojourn from Picasso successful the 1950s.
Food is served successful the edifice and alfresco each day, with a midweek small-plates menu, and à la carte and tasting menus astatine weekends.
Book it: rooms £140, B&B. brocco.co.uk
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PR HANDOUT)The Queensberry, Bath, Somerset
They’re superior astir nutrient and service, yet an irrepressible consciousness of amusive runs done this hotel, which is named aft Oscar Wilde’s nemesis, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry, and dispersed implicit 4 townhouses.
The champion bedrooms person floor-to-ceiling windows; cheaper nine rooms are tiny but chic with ravishing usage of colour. There’s a relaxed paper successful Old Q Bar, and Chris Cleghorn’s Michelin-star menus successful the Olive Tree restaurant.
Book it: rooms from £182, B&B. thequeensberry.co.uk
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PR HANDOUT)White Hart Hotel, Lincoln
In a large mounting astatine the city’s historical heart, wrong show and dependable of the cathedral, this erstwhile coaching inn has had a swish makeover by caller proprietor Andrew Long. From cosy doubles to the luxury King Edward Suite, the rooms are spruce, each with an espresso machine, a mini fridge and a dusky palette.
Bistro classics are connected the paper successful Antlers restaurant. It’s the cleanable basal from which to research ‘England’s astir underrated city’.
Book it: rooms from £119, B&B. whitehart-lincoln.co.uk
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PR HANDOUT)Number Thirty-Eight Clifton, Bristol
Set astatine the apical of 1 of Bristol’s highest hills, this Georgian merchant’s location is an uber-cool B&B with views crossed the metropolis to the Mendips from sexy, uncluttered bedrooms astatine the rear. All person a fridge and luxury toiletries; immoderate a copper roll-top bath and walk-in shower. Drinks tin beryllium taken successful the lounge, the library, oregon connected a suntrap rooftop terrace.
Book it: rooms from £155, B&B. number38clifton.com
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PR HANDOUT)Prestonfield House, Edinburgh
Peacocks patrol the parkland astatine this impossibly glamorous 17th-century state location successful the city, nether Arthur’s Seat. Theatrical interiors are filled with artworks and antiques, tapestries and curios. Romantic bedrooms, immoderate with a four-poster, person affluent velvets, flowing drapes, acheronian patterned wallpapers and marble bathrooms.
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PR HANDOUT)A gourmet candlelit meal is served successful Rhubarb restaurant, and if your fund won’t tally to that, you could travel by for day tea.
Book it: rooms from £375, B&B. prestonfield.com
Prices quoted per nighttime for a treble room. More info astatine goodhotel guide.com
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