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Bath provides the perfect English getaway. This is a genteel city soaked in history, which has kept its stiff upper lip but learned how to relax with a cocktail, too.

Boutique hotels in Bath

Belfast is back. The Northern Irish capital has had a makeover, put the tough times behind her and is stepping out in style from behind Dublin's shadow.

Boutique hotels in Belfast

For fine eateries, picturesque countryside and fascinating heritage, the Royal County of Berkshire is hard to beat.

Boutique hotels in Berkshire

In these peaceful and unspoilt uplands, blessed with spellbinding natural beauty and watermarked with Celtic legends, the mind, the body and the spirit can all be revived and renewed.

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Forget kiss-me-quick hats and candyfloss on Palace Pier – with its pretty, terraced squares, Brighton gives Bath a run for its Regency money.

Boutique hotels in Brighton

Cardigan Bay, like the knitwear of the same name, is a comfy-cosy, sit-back-and-put-your-feet-up kind of place. But that’s not to say the area lacks drama.

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With its sweeping sandy coastline, verdant-valleyed interior and tale-telling locals, Carmarthen Bay has all the raw materials needed for ‘iconic destination’ status.

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Gently sloping hills, historic market towns and beech woodlands – just a few miles from Central London.

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With its soft sand beaches, hot summer sun and spectacularly noisy waves, Cornwall is the stuff of perfect childhood holidays.

Boutique hotels in Cornwall

More typically English than a bowler-hatted Bertie Wooster whistling Elgar, this chunk of gently undulating and seemingly evergreen countryside is enough to send Anglophile tourists into apoplexy.

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Devon is the stuff of childhood dreams. Sun-kissed beaches and quiet little coves hark back to a time when all you needed for a day of unbridled pleasure was a bucket and spade, acres of silver sand and the promise of an ice-cream before bed.

Boutique hotels in Devon

Dorset is a tale of two landscapes: the chalky downlands of Cranborne Chase and the Purbeck Hills, with their pretty villages and grand houses; and the wild, adventure-friendly Jurassic Coast, rebranded but untamed.

Boutique hotels in Dorset

The gorgeous East Sussex coast has always attracted crowds; in the height of summer, you may have to fight your way onto the beaches, just as the Romans and Normans once did.

Boutique hotels in East Sussex

If Scotland’s first city had a front door, it would come with a huge ‘Welcome’ mat.

Boutique hotels in Edinburgh

Gloucestershire, with its picture-postcard English towns and countryside, is perfect for a romantic weekend.

Boutique hotels in Gloucestershire

A hop from London, Hampshire has long been the go-to county for urbanite weekenders in need of a rural retreat.

Boutique hotels in Hampshire

There's more to Harrogate than Bettys tea rooms and Farrah's toffee; as well as being a green-fingered garden of earthly delights and heritage spa destination, it's the gateway to the beautiful Yorkshire Dales.

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Ever since Caesar first came, saw and conquered it, the Garden of England has attracted visitors with its sandy beaches and fertile countryside.

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Cumbria’s dramatic, brooding landscape has inspired creative souls for centuries: poet William Wordsworth penned many of his most famous works in the Lake District, and it’s where Beatrix Potter settled with her beloved flock of Herdwick sheep.

Boutique hotels in Lake District

This stately old lady on the banks of the Mersey may have celebrated her 800th birthday, but she’s enjoying an invigorating shake-up these days…

Boutique hotels in Liverpool

England's capital has got it all. And she flaunts it.

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Mancunians may be too down-to-earth to say it themselves, but the capital of the northwest has come over all Manhattanchester.

Boutique hotels in Manchester

The famous Broads, the wild and wonder-filled beaches, the huge skies: Norfolk is a remote and inspiring corner of England, just a couple of hours from London.

Boutique hotels in Norfolk

Where wild moors and rolling dales form the backdrop to solid, greystone market towns and idyllic country villages, North Yorkshire is the UK's ultimate antidote to urban life.

Boutique hotels in North Yorkshire

A delicious combination of chocolate-box villages, undulating hills and elegant cities (Bath and Wells), Somerset is the sort of place where honey-laden bees buzz lazily through orchards, perhaps pausing on a fallen apple.

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Tradition and new ideas combine in Oxfordshire to create the best of all worlds.

Boutique hotels in Oxfordshire

The sheer size and scale of the Peak District makes for much of its mystery. Stretched across northern Derbyshire and rolling into a handful of other counties, it comprises 555 square miles of moors and uplands, dramatic views and drystone walls, plus pubs and tearooms aplenty.

Boutique hotels in Peak District

Flat as a pint of Adnams left in the sun, evocative East Anglia has more in common, topographically at least, with just-across-the-North-Sea Netherlands than the hilly counties to the west.

Boutique hotels in Suffolk

In Wales, they say a little bit of everything never did anyone any harm – and diversity is what you’ll get in spades in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Boutique hotels in Vale Of Glamorgan

The sleepy green counterpoint to southern England’s metropolitan madness.

Boutique hotels in Wales

With the cathedral city of Chichester providing its meanest seaside streets, West Sussex is a green and pleasant county, where seasons and hills roll gently, all against the ever-shifting backdrop of the sea.

Boutique hotels in West Sussex

The Scottish Highlands: unlike anywhere else on earth.

Boutique hotels in Wester Ross

Sitting comfortably between the Cotswolds, Warwickshire and the Welsh Marches, Worcestershire is a preserved pocket of tumbling hills, riverside towns and a grand old cathedral city.

Boutique hotels in Worcestershire