Church Inn

The warm can-do hospitable greeting from the licensees and staff really sets the tone at this welcoming village pub. The chatty low-ceilinged tiled bar has a warming fire and is traditionally furnished with cushioned built-in benches and simple chairs around polished cast-iron-framed tables - one or two still with their squeaky sewing treadles. Shelves of readable books, Tiffany-style lamps and house plants in the curtained windows, atmospheric Dales photographs and prints, and a coal-effect stove in the stripped-stone end wall all add a cosy feel. Adnams, Marstons Bitter and Pedigree and a couple of guests such as Burton Blonde and Wincle Sir Philip are on handpump; darts and pool in a tiled-floor games area on the left; TV, piped music and board games. The pub is in a quiet spot at the end of the road up to the moors, opposite a largely 18th-c church and prettily tucked into woodland. It has fine views over the village and the hills beyond from good teak tables on its two-level terrace.