There's over 400 years of history at this coaching inn, but your focus is likely to be on late Victorian – it’s the inspiration for The Sow and the Acorn in Tess of the d’Urbervilles. It sits by sparkling River Lugg, with al fresco tables from which to enjoy the views and the gentle birdsong coming from the kitchen garden. Inside, the interconnected bar areas have beams dripping with dried hops, boarded and flagstone floors and antique tables laid out with brass candelabra and fresh flower. Life at Shibden Mill Inn centres around the whitewashed original pub itself, which is all low, exposed wooden beams, open fires and trophy stag's heads. The pub is cash-only, 'though a sign does reassure punters that "we now sell spirits in metric sizes"'.

The unfussy yet exemplary restaurant facing onto the Chiltern Hills is worth a visit alone, and the Mash Inn’s six rooms means guests won’t have far to roll home afterwards. This pub, however, was 'put on the map' by the ska band Madness, which 'packed the place out for six weeks' with ska kids when they were starting out. They provide somewhere to socialize, to eat, drink and be merry, they birthed the popular pastime of pub quizzes and have remained a happy place for eager boozers for centuries. Park and Park Corporate Risk Advisors are trading names of Park Commercial Ltd who are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. The stone-fronted Pheasant is set in an acre or so of private gardens, with its own duck pond, in the quintessential market town of Helmsley.If you have any question about this product or need to brainstorm how to compliment it with another feel free to reach out to us in the way that suits you most. Revealed: How to move from the UK to Australia - and how you could DOUBLE your salary when you get there. The six rooms and their bathrooms vary, as befits a 17th-century building, in shape and size and two have bathrooms across the corridor, which somehow adds to the character. The pub is apparently named after the loud insects along this part of coastline, and also centuries ago, when the beach stretched far out into the bay, playing cricket on the beach was a popular pastime. But Andy stresses that whoever walks in, regardless of status, will find the same things on offer: ‘Great beer, great service and a sense of familiarity.

Facilities include a large, popular garden with a pizza oven in the summer months; virtually all-day dining; and free parking with direct access to the bedrooms – elegant in soft milky colours. It’s the perfect snapshot of where pubs have been, where they are now, and where they might be headed. Keeping things in the family since it opened around 1860, The Canny Man’s is a family-run public house that’s been a faithful servant to Edinburgh’s drinkers since day one. Cooking is robust, with punchy flavours and unpretentious presentation: roasted guinea hen with puy lentils, turnip, radish and anchovy, for example, or linguini, with garlic, peas and broad beans. Doubling as the birthplace and taproom of the independent Marble Brewery, this spacious pub near the Northern Quarter has got a warm and inviting interior, a cheeky hidden beer garden and one of the best beer selections in the whole of Manchester.This book presents gorgeous, expertly lit photographs of centuries-old snugs, elegant marble bars, richly wood-panelled anterooms and pressed tin ceilings which convey the warmth and deep tradition that has kept some of these establishments going for nearly five hundred years. The pub, which was built between 1898 and 1900, is described by the tome as a 'phantasmagoria of High Victoriana, from its turreted, gabled and oriel-windowed castle-like exterior. Inside is like being transported into a rustic-chic corner of Provence, with red-and-black tiled floors, a handsome wood-burner and retro café tables, topped with pots of herbs and candles in wax-covered bottles.

The décor in the seven quirky bedrooms and four lodges is unconventional to say the least, from an old dentist's chair to a wardrobe to Narnia. Beer is one of the main reasons people go to pubs and, whether you’re one of those Untappd fanatics or simply someone who wants nothing more complicated than ice-cold lager, The Moorcock Inn will have something for you.Named after chefs who have inspired owner Mark Sargeant (Ramsay, Stein, Floyd and Marco Pierre White), the Duke’s four rooms are snug but artfully decorated, adopting the style of old school rooms.