One of England's finest country hotels, rambling former hunting lodge Hambleton Hall, built in 1881, sits on a peninsula jutting out into Rutland Water, 3 miles east of Oakham. Its luxuriant floral rooms and Michelin-starred restaurant (two-course lunch menu £31.50, three-/four-course dinner menus £75/95) are surrounded by gorgeous gardens, which also shelter an outdoor heated swimming pool (May to September).
Hambleton Hall
The Midlands & the Marches
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