Britain's best traditional pubs: As the Good Beer Guide celebrates 50 years, our pick of the best boozers with lip-smacking pints – and rooms to match…
Brilliant beers and premium sleep rarely go hand in hand. Usually, from Devon to Dumfries, you have to choose between a pub with pleasant rooms upstairs but a tedious selection of lagers on tap, or an inn which offers top-notch regional drinks but lacks decent accommodation.
The Campaign For Real Ale's Good Beer Guide, celebrating its 50th anniversary, is the Michelin equivalent for true beer lovers. It's also an essential book for finding wonderful places to drink and stay. Here is our selection of the best…
Pints and PiratesIf the Anchor Inn, a former smugglers' den in Seatown, Dorset, were closer to the sea, the locals in the main bar would have wet feet. The inn has a selection of beers from the nearby Palmers Brewery, which produces Dorset Gold beer. All three bedrooms offer sea views with some subtle nautical touches in the decor that never veer into Pugwash kitsch.
Stay: Double B&B from £150 per night (with two night minimum stay), theanchorinnseatown.co.uk
At the top of the WealdPerched in the heights of the Sussex Weald in West Hoathly, the Cat Inn...
Brilliant beers and premium sleep rarely go hand in hand. Usually, from Devon to Dumfries, you have to choose between a pub with pleasant rooms upstairs but a tedious selection of lagers on tap, or an inn which offers top-notch regional drinks but lacks decent accommodation.
The Campaign For Real Ale's Good Beer Guide, celebrating its 50th anniversary, is the Michelin equivalent for true beer lovers. It's also an essential book for finding wonderful places to drink and stay. Here is our selection of the best…
Pints and PiratesIf the Anchor Inn, a former smugglers' den in Seatown, Dorset, were closer to the sea, the locals in the main bar would have wet feet. The inn has a selection of beers from the nearby Palmers Brewery, which produces Dorset Gold beer. All three bedrooms offer sea views with some subtle nautical touches in the decor that never veer into Pugwash kitsch.
Stay: Double B&B from £150 per night (with two night minimum stay), theanchorinnseatown.co.uk
At the top of the WealdPerched in the heights of the Sussex Weald in West Hoathly, the Cat Inn...
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