A stroll from Northumberland's award-winning beaches, this family-friendly hotel offers a mix of individually designed bedrooms, a fun, quirky bar, and a restaurant serving locally sourced, hearty, gastropub-style cooking for walkers and their dogs.

There are mesmerising views of medieval Alnwick Castle from the Duchy of Northumberland's new hotel, occupying the Georgian Commissioner's house and former school, with further rooms in a modern extension, and 'top-notch' cooking in the restaurant.

Harvey Roberts's home is in a terrace of little stone-built houses fronting the main street of a pretty coastal village. He runs it as an adults only but dog friendly B&B.

Family owned and friendly, this 18th-century coaching inn and popular local, in a coastal village of colourfully painted houses, has beers from artisan brewers, pub classics, wood-fired pizzas, and bedrooms in restful shades, with sandy beaches a short walk away.

A traditional farmhouse B&B with just two bedrooms as well as self-catering cottages, Thistleyhaugh is in the capable hands of the Nelless family's second-generation of hosts.