Cotswold House Hotel

Chipping Campden is one of the Cotswold’s most picturesque towns, and this is its best hotel; a honey-hued Regency building and adjoining period houses, fronting onto the town’s main street.

Bedrooms are chic and unfussy, with a refreshing lack of chintz, spread out along the maze of corridors, and as charming, stand-along cottages in the garden.

The Bistro on the Square is a lively spot for dinner or cocktails (there are 70 types of gin to choose from), but the cherry on the cake is the enchanting garden that stretches behind the hotel, with loungers and deckchairs dotted among flower-filled borders.

At the far end, the former coach house is home to the hotel’s excellent spa, offering soothing Decleor treatments.