Take a gentrified location close to Cheltenham Racecourse, add the imposing grandeur of honey-coloured stone and you have a dream ticket for weddings or other social bashes – an expensively
restored, full-on country house/spa just 10 minutes’ drive from Cheltenham itself. In the oak-panelled luxe of the Beaufort Dining Room, guests can look forward to indulgent cooking complemented by
gorgeous wines from the hotel's extensive cellar. Try home-smoked duck breast with spice-crumbed foie gras, apple and plum purée ahead of roast rump of spring lamb with broad beans, buttered leeks
and Jersey new potatoes. To conclude, explore the superb selection of British cheeses – if lush desserts such as rum and coconut liqueur-soaked baba with poached pineapple, mango purée and coconut
milk sorbet aren’t your thing.