A Scottish rewilding experience, just past Gretna Green

Your hosts spent their first two years at West Barmoffity B&B in a caravan. The work they put in – digging lakes, designing and then building the farmhouse B&B – has created a fantastic home for themselves and their sheep and cattle but also a great destination for wildlife – and now for you.

There are just two guest bedrooms here, a kingsized double and a twin. Both are ensuite, simply furnished as befits a working farm but fabulously comfortable. From every window there are far-reaching rural views and it’s a wonderfully quiet and relaxing place.

You’re not confined to your room here, and are free to use the huge sitting room, complete with log-burning stove, that gives directly out onto a large patio area and an even larger garden, with raised vegetable beds and a summer house. You’re also welcome to explore life on the farm, with the cycle of sheep and cattle co-existing with fantastic birdlife on the farm’s own lake.

West Barmoffity Farm B&B suggests

Bring binoculars. Our pond has mallard, teal, Canada geese, grey lag geese, oyster catchers, lapwings and mute swans; we also see increasing numbers of red kites.