Ebborways Farm, Priddy

Priddy is about as high as Somerset gets, a scattered village on the Mendip plateau with Ebbor Gorge on one side and the drop down to Wells on the other. Ebborways Farm is a working farm that takes bed and breakfast guests, and the setting is the reason to come: fields on every side, a conservatory dining room looking out over them, and walking country that starts at the gate.

The farm's own website prices dogs at £10 per dog and sets a limit of two, but that figure is quoted against one particular double room rather than the house as a whole, so check what applies to the room you actually book. Dogs are taken on the camping field as well as in the bed and breakfast rooms. No weight limit or breed restriction is published anywhere. Guests travelling with dogs report a genuinely warm reception rather than mere tolerance, including parties arriving with two dogs.

The owner is named repeatedly in reviews and always positively, and the recurring theme is accommodation in the older sense of the word - flexibility over timings, help where it is needed, and a breakfast that is comfortably the most praised thing about the place. Guests describe it as closer to staying in someone's home than in a hotel.

Walks are everywhere: Ebbor Gorge, the Mendip ridge, the lanes down towards Wookey and Cheddar. A pub is an easy walk from the door, and there is storage for bikes if you are combining the two.

This is an old-fashioned farmhouse B&B and it does not pretend otherwise. There are stairs, at least some bathroom arrangements are shared, and guests have found the furnishings dated. None of that need matter with a dog, and a farm where boots come back muddy is arguably the point, but if you want ensuite modernity this is not it. A shared bathroom is also worth thinking through if your dog cannot be left alone in the room.

Best suited to walkers and cyclists who want a farm, a very good breakfast and the Mendips out of the window, and who would rather have a welcome than a wet room.