The Acorn Inn

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The Acorn Inn
28 Fore Street
Evershot
Dorset
DT2 0JW
England

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Summer Lodge

Evershot - 0.1 miles away

When the Earl of Ilchester hired a certain Thomas Hardy to extend his Georgian dower house, he could not have foreseen the praise it would receive as an 'extremely well-run, very comfortable, welcoming hotel with first-class food' (Relais & Châteaux) and spa.

From £60 per night

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The Ollerod

Beaminster - 6 miles away

In Hardy’s ‘Emminster’, ten minutes from Dorset’s Jurassic Coast, a historic priest’s house is now a restaurant-led hotel.

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The Eastbury Hotel & Spa

Sherborne - 9 miles away

Close to Sherborne Abbey, this handsome Georgian town house in ‘lovely’ walled gardens makes a ‘pleasant retreat’ in the heart of the historic market town.

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The Lord Poulett Arms

Hinton St George - 11 miles away

In a lovely conservation village, long under the feudal sway of the Poulett family, this thatched 17th-century inn is now a stylish dining pub-with-rooms, part of the fiefdom of the trio behind The Talbot Arms in Mells and The Beckford Arms, Tisbury (see entries).

From £65 per night

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The Seaside Boarding House

Burton Bradstock - 11 miles away

There's more than an air of Cape Cod about this white clapboard hotel above Chesil Beach, which could have come straight out of an Edward Hopper painting.

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The King’s Arms

Dorchester - 11 miles away

In Thomas Hardy’s Casterbridge, this bow-windowed Georgian coaching inn enters the Guide after a £5 million make-over for the Stay Original group.

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Yalbury Cottage

Dorchester - 13 miles away

Ariane and Jamie Jones preside over a much-admired hotel and restaurant in this 300-year-old thatched cottage once home to a local shepherd (Gabriel Oak, we like to think, for this is the very heart of Thomas Hardy country).

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The Kings Arms

Sherborne - 13 miles away

Just up the street from the village church, this 19th-century inn is today a ‘friendly’ country pub run by chef/patron Sarah Lethbridge and her husband, Anthony.

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More hotels nearby

Summer Lodge

Evershot - 0.1 miles away

The Ollerod

Beaminster - 6 miles away

The Eastbury Hotel & Spa

Sherborne - 9 miles away

The Lord Poulett Arms

Hinton St George - 11 miles away

The Seaside Boarding House

Burton Bradstock - 11 miles away

The King’s Arms

Dorchester - 11 miles away

Yalbury Cottage

Dorchester - 13 miles away

The Kings Arms

Sherborne - 13 miles away

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