Overlooking the green acres of the Stray, this jazzed-up 19th-century coaching inn has bright, well-equipped bedrooms, and a refurbished bar and restaurant serving menus of artisan, locally grown and farmed produce.

Denise Carter's comfortable, spoiling B&B 'offers good value and plenty of Yorkshire friendliness'.

A handy stopover just minutes from the A1, this updated but atmospheric village pub, with flagged floors, beams, wood burner and comfy seating, offers spruce, contemporary bedrooms, modern bathrooms, and menus of pub classics with more ambitious dishes.

Overlooking the village green and duck pond, this 18th-century pub is a friendly local drop-in and foodie destination with Scandi-cool house bedrooms and spacious, eco-friendly, super-duper, stripped-back-chic timber garden rooms.

Chris and Rebecca Layton have transformed this Jacobean deanery opposite the Cathedral into a wedding venue and personable restaurant with rooms, dog and family friendly by day, a gastronomic destination at night.

Converted from a 17th-century corn and spinning mill in a wooded valley, this country inn combines rustic charm with character in its quirkily styled bedrooms, while menus make creative use of local and home-grown produce.

More country hotel than pub with rooms, this creeper-covered 17th-century inn is in a lovely location in the heart of the Nidderdale valley. It has traditionally furnished bedrooms, some in a converted barn, and a display of old clocks in a characterful dining room with menus of Yorkshire produce.

York's most unusual B&B is part of England's oldest working convent, where guests can sleep in modern comfort, enjoy a light lunch or tea and cake in the café and Victorian atrium, share the sisters' peaceful garden and visit the domed chapel.