Great Pubs of England: Thirty-three of Britain's Best Hostelries from the Home Counties to the North: Thirty-three of England's Best Hostelries from the Home Counties to the North

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Conscious of its long-established reputation for food and hospitality, they aim to maintain the status quo while sprucing the place up, and so far they’re doing a great job. This Glaswegian bar is somewhere I hope everyone will get to have a pint at least once in their life. Plates are kept simple with the short, daily changing menu – think turbot, cauliflower, apple and sultana curry, or pork belly with black pudding, mash and rhubarb. When therefore Mark, my husband received it as an orchestrated Christmas present, it was more than just a gift, it was the start of a new adventure.

Six rooms in the converted barns next door are all good sizes, with contemporary bathrooms and a bit of individual character. The Pavilion and Willows rooms (all of which are ‘Best’) have superking beds and spacious bathrooms with walk-in showers and separate baths. I’m sure that this book will inspire [readers] to go forth and explore England’s liquid history anew. To relax, there’s an upstairs sitting room, comfy seats in the bar plus a large garden set with tables and chairs.Fourteen of the pubs in Great Pubs of England are in London so this felt like a good place to start.

As you'd expect, there's a heavy local influence to menu items – mainly the cheese board selection that offers a good choice of Yorkshire's finest.Eat in the candle-lit dining room or buzzier bar; the latter offers three real ales and a good selection of single malts.

Park and Park Corporate Risk Advisors are trading names of Park Commercial Ltd who are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.Most of the ingredients for the restaurant and pub are sourced from a 20-mile radius and the seasonally changing menus focus on fresh Kentish meats, seafood and vegetables. But the heart of the menu is pure Norfolk, making the most of meat from local butchers and estates and fish and seafood from the north coast. The book continues: 'Witness the remarkable interior: an oval-shaped wooden bar, dazzling gold wallpaper, a psychedelic carpet, and red velour curtains.

Inside, the bar is a scrubbed-up smuggler’s haunt with low ceilings, smart wooden textures and knick-knacks on the walls.The original fabric of the building – the Abbot’s lodging of a 12th-century priory – has been blended with a 21st-century country manor look. Fascinating map reveals ONE THOUSAND amazing things to do, see - and eat - in Britain, from places with bizarre names to wacky sporting events (fancy entering a shin-kicking contest?