Wyvill Arms

The friendly Stevens family have now run this 18th-c former farmhouse for over a decade, and this year they've added more comfortable bedrooms, which our readers enjoy very much. There's a small bar area with a mix of seating, a finely worked plaster ceiling with the Wyvill family's coat of arms and an elaborate stone fireplace with a warm winter fire. The second bar has a lower ceiling with fans, leather seating, old oak tables, various alcoves and a model train on a railway track running around the room; the reception area includes a huge leather sofa which can seat up to eight people, another carved stone fireplace and an old leaded church stained-glass window partition. Both rooms are hung with pictures of local scenes. John Smiths and Theakstons Best on handpump, a dozen wines by the glass and some rare malt whiskies; board games. There are several large wooden benches under large white parasols for outdoor dining and picnic-sets by the well. Constable Burton Gardens are opposite and worth a visit.