London’s last grand hotel still in family ownership, the Edwardian Goring is beloved of royalty, who have a little place around the corner (Buckingham Palace).
An outstanding country-house hotel with Michelin-starred cooking, Hambleton Hall began life as a hunting lodge built in 1881 for a wealthy brewer. His younger sister and heir, Eva Astley Paston Cooper, hosted the likes of Noël Coward in the drawing room.
ؤchoose a bedroom with garden views. One of the largest bedrooms has a 19th-century French marble bathroom. The house is surrounded by 17 acres of south-facing gardens and grounds, developed by the present owners, with a parterre and ornamental ponds, topiary, statuary, mature trees
