European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Yorkshire a Green tree Bearwood Green Hatfield Woodhouse South Yorkshire. Junction of a18 and a614. Telephone 0302/840305. A 16th-Century coaching inn that began life As a simple Alehouse it has a whitewashed exterior decked out with colourful hanging baskets. Children Are Welcome in the restaurant and Garden. The open plan rooms and alcoves have Windsor chairs and Leatherette seats. The history is fascinating on the night of the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644, when Oliver Cromwell routed the royalist forces a group of retreating Cavaliers found a Cromwell supporter staying at the Green tree and hanged him from a beam. He has haunted the pub . You won t be haunted by the prices though both Beer and food Are reasonable. Meals include fresh fish from Grimsby. Seafood Platter Sweet and sour pork and such vegetarian options As Broccoli and cheese bake. The restaurant has game in season. A a Beer Thorne Best bitter Sheffield Best bitter Vaux Samson. Accommodations available. A malt shovel inn Oswaldkirk North Yorkshire. Off b1363 and b1257. Telephone 0439/788461. The inn dates from 1610, when it was the Manor House in a Village mentioned in the domesday Book. It has imposing staircases and a Maze of Wood panelled rooms. The tap room is especially impressive with Low beams old wooden settles a rocking armchair and a collection of old Clay pipes and miners lamps. The family room has a vast Inglenook fireplace and the lounge has More Wood panelling and beams with a Small Stone fireplace. The Back of the building overlooks sweeping gardens that include a Box hedge Maze. Bar food and restaurant meals Are available including local game and vegetarian options. Children Are Welcome inside and outside the pub. Beer Samuel Smith s old brewery bitter and museum ale. A a a a a a a a a a Quot a a Telephone 05394/36334. Here s a special treat for children of All Ages this is the pub that features in the Tate of Jemima puddle Duck. It backs on to Hill top farm where Beatrix Potter lived and worked. It is a striking Black and White building with a Fine perched Entrance now owned by the National Trust. There is a Beer Garden and inside slate flagged floors and a Kitchen Range the atmosphere has t been ruined by the tourist Trade. Cooking is country traditional with such dishes 35 local Trout game pie and Gammon steaks. There Are filling homemade soups and old fashioned puddings such As Sticky Toffee and cumbrian rum Nicky with raisins dark sugar and rum. Beer Theakston mild Best bitter old Peculiar. Younger scotch. Accommodations available. Central England a old coach House inn Ashby St. Ledgers Quot Northamptonshire. Off a361 Between Daventry and Rugby four Miles from m1 Junction 18. Telephone 0788/890349. The Gunpowder plot was hatched in this Stone built former farmhouse and at nearby Althorp Hall. The pub was hideously Quot modernized in the 1960s, and the present owners deserve Praise for restoration work that has revealed a wealth of old Inglenook and Stone floors. The lounge bar has High backed settles on red and Black tiles standing timbers decorated with horse brasses and a log fire. Table Skittles darts and dominoes Are played in the front bar. The Large Garden has summer barbecues and a play area for children there is a restaurant and bar food offering fish and game Chili Salmon in Mayonnaise and vegetarian options. -. Beer Everards Tiger and old original Jennings Cumberland ale Morrelly varsity. Accommodations available including stabling for horses. A Crown inn Deb Dale Hill old Dalby Leicestershire. A46 Leicester to Newark 0664/823134. England cricketers playing at Trent Bridge have been known to drive to old Dalby at the close of play to Sample the Range of ales and Good food in this huddle of red Brick buildings that once formed a farm Complex. It stands in a narrow Lane and there Are surprisingly spacious lawns in the Back. Inside there Are several Small interconnected rooms with beams old Oak settles Windsor chairs and open fires. Food is microwave free and ranges from snacks such As Welsh Rabbit or local Melton Mowbray pie to Turkey with mushroom and red Pepper sauce or for vegetarians spinach and Ricotta roulade. The Small restaurant has a separate a la carte menu. A vast array of ales is served straight from the cask. There Are usually Sone local Beers hardys and continued on Page 10 the Beehive is near Bury St. Edmunds in East Anglia below right. As the map shows these pubs Are scattered All Over Britain. The lakes a masons arms Caramel fell Strawberry Bank a Cumbria. Off a5074 near Windermere. Telephone 05395/g8486 a Remote inn that was once a secret meeting place of the Kendal freemasons. Arthur Ransome lived up the Lane when he was writing his swallows and amazons novels. Owner Nigel Stevenson honors the great children s writer with his pub brewed ales called Amazon big six Captain Flint and great Northern. He also makes a belgian style fruit Beer using local Damson. There is an enormous Range of International Beers carefully detailed in a Beer menu. Helen Stevenson adds to the pleasures with casserole of beef and chestnuts soups fish and a Good Range of vegetarian dishes such As vegetable and cashew Curry. Self catering accommodation available. A Tower Bank arms near Sawrey Cumbria. B5285. October 20, 1994 stripes Magazine 9
