From our guide to Bed & Breakfast for Garden Lovers

From our guide to Bed & Breakfast for Garden Lovers

Mount Hall

Mount Hall

Essex, England

Type of Accommodation: Bed & Breakfast

The House: An immaculate Queen Anne listed house. Two upstairs rooms are large, light, quietly elegant and deeply comfortable, with garden views, but it is the private, ground-floor annexe that Sue enthuses about most...

The Garden: The drive sweeps you around and up to the handsome pillared and stuccoed front porch of Mount Hall, overlooking a wide lawn flanked by mature trees and shrubs...

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Shallowdale House

Shallowdale House

Yorkshire, England

Type of Accommodation: Bed & Breakfast

The House: Each window frames an outstanding view - this spot, on the edge of the North York Moors National Park, was chosen for them, and the house arranged to soak up the scenery...

The Garden: Keep climbing and by the time you get to the top of the garden you will feel you’ve had a hearty country walk; sit on a bench and breathe that Yorkshire air...

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