Rooms with BLOOMS

Try these getaways with gorgeous gardens

- CHRIS MORLEY

Millgate House RICHMOND, NORTH YORKSHIRE

This elegant Georgian B&B faces the town's cobbled marketplace. Its Regency interiors are perfect - you'll wish you'd packed your crinoline and bonnet - and the three bedrooms blessed with views across the River Swale. The densely planted walled gardens have been carefully tended for over 40 years by the owners, and are an oasis of colour and texture, with roses tucked among lollipop box and lush hostas. Wander the stone pathways to discover private seating areas. Outside the walls, Richmond beckons, with its Georgian theatre, art galleries and cinema in a former Victorian railway station.

* Double rooms from £185, inc breakfast (a minimum two-night stay); millgatehouse.com

Spread Eagle STOURTON, WILTSHIRE