A former coaching inn, this top-notch B&B with secluded back garden combines hotel-quality accommodation with the warmth and intimacy of an owner-run guest house.

You could not wish for a more glorious location than you find at Lorraine Hinkins and Alex Yorke's 18th-century farmhouse B&B, with views to Cader Idris and Tal-y-llyn lake.

Huddled below wooded hills, beside a stone bridge over the River Monnow, this whitewashed former 17th-century coaching inn serves delicious food and has great walks from the door to help you justify eating it.

With the canal on one side and River Dee and steam railway on the other, this Victorian townhouse is a stylish, immaculately presented, adults only B&B.

The sands of time have seen changes at this formerly drab Edwardian seaside guesthouse, which is now enjoying a new lease of life as a contemporary beach hotel, bar and restaurant, with high-quality, individually designed bedrooms, and modern cooking, including gluten-fee and vegan menus.

There is nowhere in the world quite like Sir Clough Williams-Ellis's Italianate resort village, where hotel bedrooms are spread around various properties, centred on a Victorian mansion on wooded slopes above the sandy beaches of the Dwyryd estuary.

Behind the ornate stucco façade of a Victorian industrialist's summer villa, Gaenor Loftus and Sam Nayar have created a very un-Victorian B&B with nine highly individual bedrooms.