Marle Inn

A tranquil lake stretching to the blue horizon, two swans gliding regally by and a line of willows weeping gracefully at the edge not a picture from some stolen weekend of rest and relaxation but the view from The Marle Inn, in Milton Keynes! There really is nowhere else like it in the city, and perhaps in the anywhere else outside the national parks like the Lake District and Snowdonia. Set on the estate of Great Linford Lakes at the northern tip of Milton Keynes, the Scandinavian-style building fits happily into the pretty surrounding landscape.