Wood Hall Hotel

Perched on a hillside among 100 acres of wooded parkland and with a working Carmelite on the estate, this glorious Georgian mansion is approached from Linton village along a winding single-track road. Dating from 1750 and fronted by an elegant portico, it commands lovely views over the Wharfe Valley. Like the rest of the smartly spruced up interior, the Georgian dining room has a sleek contemporary look in neutral shades of coffee and cream to suit the modern cooking. With their cattle grazing the fields that can be seen from the restaurant, and the kitchen garden now providing fresh produce, the kitchen takes food sourcing seriously, with most of the top-notch produce coming from the Wharfe Valley and nearby ports of Scarborough and Whitby. Dinner may take in monkfish cheeks with girolles, sweetbreads and a deeply-flavoured chervil pannacotta, followed by pigeon with a heart and liver sausage roll and truffled white bean purée, and a well-cooked rhubarb and custard soufflé with liquorice sauce.