"One of the most exciting country retreats for U.K. food lovers, this locavore kitchen with 30 guest rooms occupies a limestone 17th-century manor house and red-brick dependency buildings 13 miles from Southampton. The property is surrounded by kitchen gardens, open fields, and one of Britain’s national treasures, New Forest National Park, which was originally claimed by William the Conqueror as royal deer-hunting grounds and designated as a national park in 2005, some 900 years later. English-country-house shabby-chic complete with worn kilims, artfully mismatched furniture, and, in the front hall, lined-up wellies and a watering can." - Ramsay Short