As UK hotels become more expensive, visitors look for good value alternatives. Coaching inns are natural candidates. Our favourites are all surrounded by wonderful, unspoilt countryside, and most have been welcoming travellers since the days of horse-drawn carriages.
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“Michelin-starred food at this superb traditional village inn”
- Moderate
- RAMSGILL; on the village green in the Nidderdale Valley, near Harrogate
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“Quirky country inn with character”
- Inexpensive
- HINTON ST GEORGE; in beautiful secluded conservation village
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“Cosy, unpretentious country inn”
- Inexpensive
- STANTON WICK; in a quiet hamlet close to Bristol and Bath
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“Great gastropub in the Brecon Beacons”
- Moderate
- Felin Fach, Powys: in Brecon Beacons, just off A470
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“Fun, informal coastal gastropub with simple accommodation”
- Inexpensive
- ZENNOR, WEST CORNWALL; on coast road between St Ives and Lands End
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“Unspoilt traditional inn”
- Inexpensive
- Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog, Denbighshire: in hamlet 7 miles SW of Llangollen, surrounded by countryside
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“Simple Lakeland inn next to Beatrix Potter's Hill Top”
- Inexpensive
- NEAR SAWREY, Hawkshead; next to Hill Top, Beatrix Potter's farm
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“Famous climbing inn, spectacularly sited”
- Inexpensive
- WASDALE HEAD; at end of a nine-mile road from nearest village
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“Relaxed pub, restaurant and rooms with bags of character”
- Moderate
- HAROME, 2½ miles SE of Helmsley
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“Traditional village pub serving top-quality food”
- Inexpensive
- Kingham, Oxfordshire. On the Village Green
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