Little Moreton Hall & Gardens (NT), Chester, England United Kingdom

Step back in time, over 500 years and marvel at the delights of the picture book moated manor-house named Little Moreton Hall. The drunkenly reeling south front, with its Elizabethan long gallery, cobbled courtyard and Great Hall.

Britain’s most famous timber-framed, moated Tudor manor house has a delightful historic Knot Garden, together with traditional fruit trees of apple, pear, medlar and quince, which blossom in May, and produce their fruit in autumn - which is then used in delicious cakes and scones served up in Little Moreton's renowned restaurant.

The splendour of the half- timbered hall became an inn in the 1996 dramatisation of Daniel Defoe's saucy romp Moll Flanders.