Spring comes early to southern Cornwall. At the Nare Hotel in Veryan, its arrival is gauged with ritual precision: six magnolia trees in the county's great gardens must each bear 50 blooms.

"Perched prettily" above the pale sands of Carne Beach on Cornwall's south coast, The Nare is one of England's most "charmingly old-fashioned" seaside hotels, said Tom Mulvihill in The Independent.

Read more: Busy main roads closed for resurfacing work in Swindon He was previously the general manager of the Nare Hotel in Cornwall, where he helped the hotel earn accolades including 'Seaside Hotel ...