Hotels within two hours of Liverpool
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Llandudno
This Tudor Gothic-style Elizabethan mansion, extended over centuries, overlooks parkland with a rare 17th-century parterre, walled rose garden, cascade, lily pond and follies.
The Traddock
Austwick
In a stone-built village ‘in the most beautiful part of the Yorkshire Dales’, this small country house hotel ‘has to be one of the best dog-friendly places in the UK’.
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Oswestry
‘A hidden gem on the Welsh border’, the Hunter family’s ‘highly dog-friendly’ hotel, in a Georgian former rectory, can again bask in the praise from our readers,
Pale Hall
Bala
On the edge of Snowdonia national park, this neo-Jacobean Victorian pile (Relais & Chateaux) stands in 'attractive grounds, more wild than ornamental, and full of rabbits’, bordered by the River Dee
Tyddyn Llan
Corwen
Four nights a week, Bryan Webb cooks exciting menus of local produce at this restaurant-with-rooms, with elegant, traditional bedrooms in the Georgian house, where he and wife Susan have been welcoming guests for more than four decades.
The Old Bell Inn
Oldham
In a picturesque Pennines village, this traditional coaching inn has 18 bedrooms, some with beams, some with roof window, an informal brasserie, and a restaurant serving pub classics and more inventive dishes.
The Roseleigh
Buxton
Readers on their annual visit to the Buxton Festival assure us that all is as good as ever at Maggi and Gerard Heelan’s excellent Victorian B&B.
The Cartford Inn
Little Eccleston
Despite its rustic-sounding name, the occasional brick or timber feature and 1960s bamboo hanging chair, themed riverside suites at this gastropub-with-rooms, art gallery and deli, are bold and contemporary, while menus are modern and eclectic.
Mere Brook House
Thornton Hough
‘A charming and rather eccentric place’, this B&B and events venue is a spacious place for a stay, with bedrooms in a 19th-century house and coach house, three lounges, well-stocked kitchen and extensive grounds.
Goldstone Hall
Market Drayton
‘In the middle of nowhere down narrow country lanes’, John and Sue Cushing’s Georgian manor house hotel sit among five-acres of brimming gardens, a prolific source of fruit and vegetables, cut flowers and perennial joy.
2 Blackburne Terrace
Liverpool
Art-filled interiors and home comforts make for a soothing ambience at this elegant Georgian townhouse B&B on a cobbled drive in Liverpool's cultural quarter.
Lion and Pheasant
Shrewsbury
In the historic town centre, this 16th-century coaching inn has cool, casual-chic interiors, warm and friendly young staff, innovative cooking in the restaurant, real ales and cocktails in the buzzy bar.
Escape
Llandudno
Behind the ornate stucco façade of a Victorian industrialist’s summer villa, Gaenor Loftus and Sam Nayar have created a very un-Victorian B&B with highly individual bedrooms.
Didsbury House
Manchester
Just 15 minutes from the city centre, this boutique town house hotel offers a wide choice of individually styled rooms, relaxing lounges, a terrace and bar for relaxed deli dining.
Shibden Mill Inn
Halifax
A 17th-century former corn and spinning mill in a wooded valley combines rustic charm with character in its quirkily styled bedrooms, while produce from the kitchen garden features in Yorkshire-inspired dishes, washed down with the pub’s own brew.
Osborne House
Llandudno
‘Splendid’ public rooms decorated with oil paintings and gilded mirrors give this small hotel on the promenade an air of ‘impressive grandeur’. On the upper floors, some of the ‘characterful’ suites have glorious sea views.
Clare House
Grange-over-Sands
There is a ‘special character’ about this timeless hotel, a Victorian villa in landscaped gardens overlooking Morecambe Bay.
The Chester Grosvenor
Chester
Beyond its imposing colonnade and Tudor revival upper storeys, this grand Victorian hotel balances superb service with friendliness, traditionally styled with more contemporary rooms, brasserie fare with refined dining.
Number One St Luke’s
Blackpool
This stylish South Shore B&B has a boutique-hotel feel with treats and state-of-the-art music systems in bedrooms.
The Inn at Whitewell
Clitheroe
Overlooking the River Hodder in the Forest of Bowland, this sprawling 18th-century manor house is joyously traditional, with stone-flagged floors, open fires and bags of atmosphere.
The Bay Horse
Ulverston
A 17th-century former coaching inn overlooking the Levens estuary is today a likeable, dog-friendly pub-with-rooms, offering homely bedrooms, some with balcony, casual bar meals, and dinner served by candlelight in the conservatory.
Hope Street Hotel
Liverpool
In the buzzy Georgian quarter, a Victorian carriage works has been reimagined as a hotel, with industrial-chic style, spa, minimalist bedrooms and modern British menus.
Underleigh House
Hope
With walks from the doorstep, views of Peak District hills, a peaceful garden, breakfast feasts and restful bedrooms, it’s no surprise that Underleigh wins so much praise.
Hipping Hall
Kirkby Lonsdale
Hipping Hall will be closing permanently on the 24th July 2023. Between the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District – and just ten minutes from the M6 – Hipping Hall is a surprising foodie find with understated yet luxurious bedrooms, spacious gardens and a relaxed atmosphere.
Aynsome Manor
Grange-over-Sands
Step back in time to an age of quiet elegance at this 400-year-old manor house, run as a 'wonderful, charming B&B', with views over farmland to pretty Cartmel village and its Norman priory church.
Biggin Hall
Buxton
'Surrounded by lovely, rolling, stone-wall country', this much-loved Peak District country-house hotel in a Grade II* listed 17th-century building ‘may not have all the luxuries of a modern boutique hotel, but the setting and grounds are stunning’.
Liverpool is an eclectic, vibrant and joyful city to visit with so much to offer when it comes to history, art, music and culture, while the surrounding area continues to expand the mini break experience with everything from scenic country views to a day at the races. From our 2018 collection of independent hotels, we share our most beautiful hotels within two hours of Liverpool…