In the 15th century, a wool merchant built a house for his family in the Wiltshire village of Lacock; today, the oak-panelled lounge At The Sign of The Angel reflects the warmth of his family home.

Since 1953, the Levis family has run this remarkable restaurant and hotel with enthusiasm and friendship. The restaurant is renowned for traditional and seasonal English cooking. Breakfasts feature the inn's own eggs, locally-cured bacon, homemade bread and Mrs Levis's marmalade. Lunch and dinner concentrate on traditional roasts, fish fresh from Cornwall and herbs, vegetables and asparagus from the kitchen garden. All the puddings are made on the premises. The beautiful old staircase looks down on a courtyard and gardens, and crackling log fires, squeaky floorboards and oak panels and beams add up to a quintessential English inn.

Lacock is the archetypal English village, with winding streets, Gothic-arched grey-stone houses and half-timbered cottages. William Fox-Talbot, maker of the world's first photographic prints in 1833, lived here, and his house is now a world-famous museum of photography.