Pubs with rooms for Christmas

From log fires to Christmas carols, collective trips to church on Christmas Eve, and canapés and champagne when you return, as well as traditional Christmas lunches with individual twists courtesy of some superb chefs. Whether you’re looking for chocolate box settings or contemporary foodie favourites, Medieval market towns or countryside retreats, the UK’s pubs with rooms provide a uniquely warm and welcoming environment in which to spend Christmas this year.

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The Black Swan - Dinner, Bed & Breakfast Special Offer

Kirkby Stephen

Cosy and quirky, Louise Dinnes’s Victorian pub ticks so many boxes. Friendly staff, public rooms filled with clocks and curios, individually styled bedrooms, first-rate modern cooking, a garden with rushing brook, and the Eden valley on the doorstep.

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The Feathered Nest - Two or Three Night Discount Special Offer

Chipping Norton

The Feathered Nest Inn offers a warm, hearty welcome, great food, real ales, wines and spirits and sumptuous rooms.

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Cuckoo Brow Inn - Three Night 15% Discount Special Offer

Ambleside

From sumptuous breakfasts to five course Christmas Day lunches, the festive season at Cuckoo Brow inn is a treat.

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The Dog at Wingham - Dinner, Bed and Breakfast from £99 per Person per night Special Offer

Canterbury

More a stylish gastropub than a community hub, this historic inn has a following of foodies, who rave about its 'delicious meals'.

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The UK’s variety of pubs with rooms have become a hospitality favourite for those wishing to escape for Christmas.

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The Lamb Inn, Burford

In a picturesque Cotswold town, an 18th-century inn contrived from a row of 15th-century weavers’ cottages has been gently shepherded into the 21st century.

The White Swan, Pickering

The Buchanan family’s 16th-century coaching inn offers a warm Yorkshire mix of traditional pub, smart food and modern bedrooms with character.

The Howard Arms, Stratford-upon-Avon

It was nearly Howard’s end in 2015 before two local families stepped in to restore the fortunes of this 'delightful gem of a pub-with-rooms', in a village on the northern fringes of the Cotswolds.

The Star Inn at Harome, nr Helmsley

Devotees of this thatched village pub-with-rooms and Michelin-starred restaurant will be thrilled when it reopens in autumn following 2021’s disastrous fire; rooms and breakfast, meanwhile, are unaffected.

The Bell at Skenfrith, Skenfrith

Huddled below wooded hills, beside a stone bridge over the River Monnow, this whitewashed former 17th-century coaching inn is delightfully at ease in the landscape.

The Punch Bowl Inn, Kendal

To find a gem in a quiet corner of the visitor-thronged Lake District is not easy, but this smart village inn in the lovely Lyth valley is, as one reader reports, ‘always a favourite’.

The Trout at  Tadpole Bridge, Buckland Marsh

The gardens run down to the Thames with free moorings for guests at this gastropub-with-rooms in the Vale of the White Horse, a former toll house for the eponymous 18th-century stone bridge.

The Sun Inn, Kirkby Lonsdale

This ‘splendid old inn’, in a market town between the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, deftly mixes historic charm – beams, crackling fires and exposed stonework – with an updated, modern touch.

The Acorn Inn, Evershot

Thomas Hardy fans will be in their element at this local watering hole in Dorset, which was the model for 'The Sow and Acorn’ in Tess of the d’Urbervilles.

The Dabbling Duck, Great Massingham

They have all their ducks in a row at this wisteria-decked gastropub-with-rooms overlooking the green in a village where mallards glide on old abbey fishponds.

Artist Residence Oxfordshire, South Leigh

With funky artwork in the bar and attractive salvaged furniture, this is not your conventional thatched village inn, but it brims with a quirky charm and a warm, open-to-everyone welcome.

Pentonbridge Inn, Penton

The humble setting of this former coaching inn, half a mile from the Scottish border, belies its chic bedrooms and creative cooking.

The Ship Inn, Elie

The catch of the day could be Shetland hake in the restaurant or nifty fielding on the sands at this pub-with-rooms overlooking the Firth of Forth, with its own beach cricket team.

The Three Hills, Cambridge

The Hills were alive with the sound of 'obvious customer contentment' when our inspector called at Chris and Sarah Field's pub in a village known for its Roman burial tumuli (the eponymous ‘hills’).

The Three Blackbirds, Newmarket

‘If you’re after a weekend in the countryside, in a good-value, charismatic pub with excellent food, you can’t go wrong here,’ a Guide insider advises.

The Ellerby Country Inn, Whitby

A mile inland from lovely Runswick Bay, in a quiet Yorkshire village on the edge of the North York Moors, this country inn is a beacon of good service, good value and simple comforts.

The Harcourt Arms, Witney

Although it has been taken over by the Barkby Group, this 17th-century gastropub-with-rooms in a rural village between the rivers Thames and Windrush 'still feels individual', say readers.

The Pear Tree Inn, Melksham

A beguilingly pretty 17th-century Bath stone inn with stone-mullioned windows and cascading wisteria, this gastropub-with-rooms with atmospheric beamed dining room is set in lovely gardens.

The Blue Bell, Harrogate

This is a village inn you would like to keep a secret: real ales at the bar, high-quality food and a modern country style that still keeps the pub’s character.

The New Inn, Tresco

Sporting a fresh new look in bedrooms and dining areas, the only pub on this family-owned, car-free island still retains its innate charm.

The Swan, Bibury

In a setting that elicits admiration, this stylishly updated 17th-century coaching inn stands on the banks of the River Coln, in a village, described by William Morris, as the most beautiful in England.

The Bay Horse, Ulverston

Overlooking the Levens estuary, watch the tide race in from Robert Lyons and Lesley Wheeler’s traditional pub-with-rooms – it’s a thrilling sight that harks centuries back to when the inn was a stopover for coaches and horses before they crossed the sands to Lancaster.

The Blue Lion, Leyburn

Log fires and settles downstairs, country-style bedrooms up: in this ‘sophisticated’ 18th-century inn, Paul and Helen Klein offer an ‘utterly authentic’ slice of rural Wensleydale hospitality.

The General Tarleton, Ferrensby

Open fires and flag stone floors in spruced-up eating and drinking areas, make this recently refurbished 18th-century coaching inn a welcoming place.

Old Swan, Minster Lovell

In a village of thatched houses, surrounded by woodland and wildflower meadows and close to a willow-hung riverbank, the 600-year-old Old Swan has a timeless charm.

The Crown Inn, Chiddingfold

This black-and-white timbered medieval inn overlooking Chiddingfold’s village green is almost ridiculously picture-perfect.

George and Dragon, Clifton

A ‘convivial’ country pub with cosy rooms and ‘very good’ food, the Lowther family’s restored 18th-century coaching inn near Ullswater retains its rural roots.

The Packhorse Inn, Newmarket

Gee’d up with a sophisticated steer, this inn in a former Victorian pub sits in a rural village near Newmarket, by a medieval packhorse bridge.

Allanton Inn, Allanton

In a sleepy village in the Scottish Borders, Katrina and William Reynolds’ ‘friendly village inn’ is an ‘excellent-value’ base for walkers, cyclists, fisherfolk and visitors in search of a rural break.

Healing Manor Hotel, Grimsby

On the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds, this centuries-old manor house is in extensive grounds of landscaped gardens, fields and woodland with access to country walks and cycle routes.

The Lord Crewe Arms, Blanchland

'A truly peaceful place to stay, potter about and walk in unspoilt countryside', this hotel in a 'spectacular building' is in a conservation village surrounded by grass moors.

The Bildeston Crown, Bildeston

With its slightly wonky windows, half-timbering and sunny yellow paintwork, this 15th-century coaching inn, in the heart of a lovely Suffolk village, has a cheerful appeal that continues inside.

The Carpenters Arms, Thirsk

Overlooking the Vale of York, this deceptively large village inn blends traditional pub features with Scandi-style bedrooms, and classy food with a range of good ales.

Bayards Cove Inn, Dartmouth

A stroll from the quay, behind a quaint, jettied, black-and-white facade, a drop-in café, bar and restaurant has excellent, pet-friendly bedrooms, approached via creaky, winding stairs.

The Bonnie Badger, Gullane

The cool Scandi-Scotia design inside this Victorian inn is unexpected in this quiet village close to Scotland’s East Lothian coast.

The Duncombe Arms, Ashbourne

A once run-down, boarded-up village boozer with views over the Dove valley is today a thriving gastropub-with-rooms in the care of owners Laura and Johnny Greenall.

Castle Cottage Inn, Harlech

At the top of one of the world’s steepest streets, this inn occupies two 16th Century buildings just above Edward I’s formidable castle (faint hearts, take the High Street route).

The Ship at Dunwich, Dunwich

Once a smugglers’ haunt, this creeper-covered inn is close to the unspoiled salt marshes of Dunwich Heath and the RSPB reserves at Dingle Marshes and Minsmere.

The Lifeboat Inn, Thornham

Gaze out to the sea and over the salt marshes from this 16th-century beer house, which takes in the changing landscape from its ‘spectacular’ location facing the north Norfolk coast.

The Durham Ox, Crayke

With views over the Vale of York, this village inn has all the warmth, character and robust food expected of a 300-year old country pub.

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The City Gate

Exeter

Abutting the Roman city walls, this style-savvy red brick old coaching inn (Young’s Brewery) has a lively atmosphere. Inside, a host of interesting curios including a vintage sewing machine, a ship’s masthead, and splashes of colour lend a quirky yet unpretentious vibe. Microbrewed drinks and traditional pub classics are served all day in the buzzy restaurant. In balmy weather, diners spill on to the large beer garden. ‘Boutiquey’ bedrooms are themed (water, wool, cotton).

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Pubs with rooms for Christmas

The Black Swan - Dinner, Bed & Breakfast Special Offer

Kirkby Stephen

The Feathered Nest - Two or Three Night Discount Special Offer

Chipping Norton

Cuckoo Brow Inn - Three Night 15% Discount Special Offer

Ambleside

The Dog at Wingham - Dinner, Bed and Breakfast from £99 per Person per night Special Offer

Canterbury

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Exeter

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