Bell

Carefully run with great thought for their wide mix of customers, the hard-working licensees of this smashing pub are as hands-on as ever. And although many people are here to enjoy the particularly good food, they do keep Bath Ales Gem, Otter Bitter, St Austell Tribute and Uley Old Spot on handpump, 20 wines by the glass and carafe from a large and diverse wine list with very helpful notes, 20 malt whiskies, two farm ciders and local soft drinks. Harry's Bar has big cushion-strewn sofas, benches and armchairs where you can read the daily papers with a pint in front of the woodburning stove – or simply have a pre-dinner drink. The two other cosy rooms have beams, a nice mix of wooden tables and chairs, country prints and modern art on stripped-stone walls, one or two attractive rugs on the flagstones, fresh flowers and open fires. The gents' has schoolboy humour cartoons on the walls. Their new young springer spaniel is called William. There are tables out on a small front lawn and in a partly covered and very pretty courtyard, for eating outside. Horses have their own tethering rail (and bucket of water).