From our guide to British Hotels & Inns

From our guide to British Hotels & Inns

Aynsome Manor Hotel

Aynsome Manor Hotel

Cumbria, England

Type of Accommodation: Hotel

A small country house with a big heart. It may not be the grandest place in the book but the welcome is genuine, the peace is intoxicating and the value is unmistakable...

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Pen-y-Dyffryn Country Hotel

Pen-y-Dyffryn Country Hotel

Shropshire, England

Type of Accommodation: Hotel

An old rectory on the side of a blissful hill with long views stretching out across the valley. The church is below, and in Wales - nobody knows when the border was moved...

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The Peacock at Rowsley

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