Watch: Hotel set in stunning border location celebrates landing a string of awards

Then, after a hearty breakfast, lace up your walking boots and set out on one of the 20 walks suggested by the hotel owners.

It is an idyllic picture that has drawn visitors back to Shropshire's Pen-y-dyffryn Country Hotel time and time again.

Now the hotel, near Oswestry, has been given two major awards by the prestigious Good Hotel Guide.

Pen-y-Dyffryn has been named the Best Walking Hotel 2016 and has also taken the Rooms with a view title.

And, in the same week, the hotel won the Favourite Hotel Award 2016 from travel website Sawday's Special Places, topping off its winning streak with The AA Silver Star Award for superior guest service.

Owners Miles and Audrey Hunter will travel to London on October 20 for a special presentation during the Independent Hotel Show at Olympia Exhibition Centre, London.

They said they are passionate about their hotel and the area in which it sits. Mr Hunter said: "Winning awards like these show that Shropshire can compete with the best of them when it comes to being a great tourist destination."

The couple bought the hotel 28 years ago and admit they fell in love with it as soon as they saw it. "It was very much a wedding venue then but over about five years we transformed it into a country house hotel and restaurant." said Mr Hunter. "Local people use the restaurant and our hotel guests come not only from across the UK but across the world."

He said the views were something that first-time visitors always commented on.

"We have rooms with views over our gardens and others that look out over the Welsh hills. The Shropshire/Welsh border is just 100 metres; it is the the river that runs across from Pen-y-dyffryn," he said.