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B&B and Beyond: Gallon House

The Yorkshire market town of Knaresborough is often neglected by tourists, but not by those who know about its foodie-friendly B&B, Gallon House. A minute’s walk from the town’s railway station, its 19th-century exterior, painted a sludgy stone, looms grandly

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B&B and Beyond: Gallon House

The Yorkshire market town of Knaresborough is often neglected by tourists, but not by those who know about its foodie-friendly B&B, Gallon House. A minute’s walk from the town’s railway station, its 19th-century exterior, painted a sludgy stone, looms grandly

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B&B and Beyond: Oriel Milgi

Opened last November in pretty St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, this three-room B&B looks like any other village house from the outside. Step over the threshold, however, and you find yourself inside a cosseting seaside retreat. Once a sea-captain’s house, Oriel Milgi

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B&B and Beyond: Oriel Milgi

Opened last November in pretty St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, this three-room B&B looks like any other village house from the outside. Step over the threshold, however, and you find yourself inside a cosseting seaside retreat. Once a sea-captain’s house, Oriel Milgi

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50 great places to make a splash

A round-up of some of the best places around the UK to swim in this summer, from stylish hotel puddles and Olympic lanes to secluded natural pools. For the full article see The Independent.

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50 great places to make a splash

A round-up of some of the best places around the UK to swim in this summer, from stylish hotel puddles and Olympic lanes to secluded natural pools. For the full article see The Independent.

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Scarborough’s chicest seaside B&B

Scarborough might not have a Turner Contemporary or a Jerwood Gallery, as Margate and Hastings respectively can boast, but it does have one weapon on its side when it comes to attrcating visitors: Barbara Firth, the owner of its most

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Scarborough’s chicest seaside B&B

Scarborough might not have a Turner Contemporary or a Jerwood Gallery, as Margate and Hastings respectively can boast, but it does have one weapon on its side when it comes to attrcating visitors: Barbara Firth, the owner of its most

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Pembrokeshire B&Bs

A round-up of 10 of the most welcoming and stylish places to stay in Pembrokeshire, from a five-star B&B in Tenby to a restaurant with rooms near Solva, a vintage-flecked B&B at the start of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path and

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Pembrokeshire B&Bs

A round-up of 10 of the most welcoming and stylish places to stay in Pembrokeshire, from a five-star B&B in Tenby to a restaurant with rooms near Solva, a vintage-flecked B&B at the start of the Pembrokeshire Coast Path and

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Hotel style at B&B prices in Edinburgh

Opening in time for last summer’s festival, B+B Edinburgh has plenty going for it. Book via a discount site and, for the price of a B&B, you can stay in this 22-room hotel with its willing staff, whisky-stocked bar and

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Hotel style at B&B prices in Edinburgh

Opening in time for last summer’s festival, B+B Edinburgh has plenty going for it. Book via a discount site and, for the price of a B&B, you can stay in this 22-room hotel with its willing staff, whisky-stocked bar and

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The woodman’s hut

When David and Valery Dean bought three acres of woodland beside their home in Scotland’s Cairngorms national park they knew exactly what they were going to do with it. At one edge sat a hillock, “the perfect spot to build a hut”,

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The woodman’s hut

When David and Valery Dean bought three acres of woodland beside their home in Scotland’s Cairngorms national park they knew exactly what they were going to do with it. At one edge sat a hillock, “the perfect spot to build a hut”,

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The blue cabin by the sea

Book into this pint-sized self-catering cottage, around an hour’s drive south-east of Edinburgh, and you’re not so much buying time in someone else’s property as time in another world. You park your car, throw your luggage in a wheelbarrow and set

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The blue cabin by the sea

Book into this pint-sized self-catering cottage, around an hour’s drive south-east of Edinburgh, and you’re not so much buying time in someone else’s property as time in another world. You park your car, throw your luggage in a wheelbarrow and set

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Glory days: the best nostalgic breaks in Britain

Pack your glad rags and book a holiday to the good old days, on one of the nostalgic breaks included in this round-up of retro-themed trips across the UK, from stays in bunting-strewn caravans to tours on bicycles made for

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Glory days: the best nostalgic breaks in Britain

Pack your glad rags and book a holiday to the good old days, on one of the nostalgic breaks included in this round-up of retro-themed trips across the UK, from stays in bunting-strewn caravans to tours on bicycles made for

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The B&B that’s reinventing a corner of England’s south coast

When this boutique B&B opened in 2009, it was still an anomaly in a seaside town more associated with the bucket-and-spade trippers in the Chas & Dave song, “Margate”. But regeneration of the town, driven by the opening of the

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The B&B that’s reinventing a corner of England’s south coast

When this boutique B&B opened in 2009, it was still an anomaly in a seaside town more associated with the bucket-and-spade trippers in the Chas & Dave song, “Margate”. But regeneration of the town, driven by the opening of the

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