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The United Kingdom
Rudding Park
A Regency house outside Harrogate with one of the north's most ambitious spas and its own golf courses.
SCHLOSS Roxburghe
Kelso estate hotel with a 600 sq m spa, championship golf and three-rosette dining.
Slebech Park Estate
Georgian estate on the Daugleddau estuary with rooms in converted courtyard buildings.
St Brides Spa Hotel
Cliffside spa hotel above Saundersfoot harbour with marine-themed thermal suite.
Star Castle Hotel
A 16th-century garrison fort on St Mary's, converted into a family-run island hotel.
Summer Lodge Country House Hotel
A five-star Red Carnation country house in the Dorset village of Evershot, deep in Hardy country.
Swinton Park Hotel & Spa
A turreted ancestral castle with a country-pursuits estate, cookery school and spa on the Dales edge.
Talbooth House & Spa
A relaxed Essex hillside retreat above Dedham Vale, with heated outdoor pool and day spa.
The Airds Hotel
Eleven rooms on the shore of Loch Linnhe at Port Appin, with a long-admired kitchen.
The Angel at Hetton
Michael Wignall's Michelin-starred inn, with sixteen rooms in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales.
The Angel Hotel
Georgian coaching inn in Abergavenny, long the social heart of the Monmouthshire food scene.
The Cavendish Hotel at Baslow
An elegant small hotel on the Chatsworth estate, with Peak District parkland beyond the garden wall.
The Cawdor
Eighteenth-century former coaching inn in Llandeilo, restored as a town-centre boutique hotel.
The Fife Arms
An art-filled Cairngorms inn, with thousands of works hung among tartan and taxidermy.
The Gainsborough Bath Spa
A five-star Bath hotel built around a private thermal bathing circuit fed by the city's hot springs.
The Gallivant
A low-slung, beach-facing bolthole opposite Camber Sands, with Bamford treatments and yoga.
The Grove
Hertfordshire estate hotel with a 22-metre pool, Bamford spa and championship golf course.
The Headland Hotel & Spa
A grand clifftop hotel outside Newquay with a large spa and Adam Handling's Ugly Butterfly.
The Lake Country House Hotel & Spa
Victorian spa retreat in 50 acres of Powys parkland with pool, lake and treatment rooms.
The Nare Hotel
A timeless country-house-by-the-sea on the Roseland Peninsula, right above Carne Beach.
The Newt in Somerset
A working Somerset estate of gardens, cyder cellars and a Roman villa, with forty rooms attached.
The Old Course Hotel, Golf Resort & Spa
St Andrews resort hotel overlooking the Old Course's 17th, with a Kohler Waters Spa.
The Parkgate Hotel
Cardiff's grandest new hotel, in a converted Edwardian building with a rooftop spa.
THE PIG-on the beach
A shabby-grand Dorset house above Studland Bay, built around its own kitchen garden.