Fittleworth, West Sussex
Hot on the Horse Guards’ heels, and an equally gorgeous spot. An ancient inn on the edge of the South Downs, close by the River Rother, with a log fire, a pretty garden and a kitchen that knows what it’s about. Favourite find of the year.
Tillington, West Sussex6. The Horse Guards InnStealth wealth country: hard to reach, quietly rich. A three-hundred-year-old inn beside the church, a stone’s throw from Petworth Park…A
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Bridge, Kent58. The Bridge ArmsThe Fordwich team’s second act, cooking over fire in a village outside Canterbury. Unpretentious room, starry plates.B
Charlbury, Oxfordshire59. The BullA handsome Cotswold-stone coaching inn cooking over wood. Hipster heaven: rooms upstairs, a fire downstairs.C
West Hoathly, West Sussex60. The Cat InnA sixteenth-century inn beside the church, with inglenooks, beams and a superb local following.All the best pubs in the South East and the Thames ValleyAll one hundred pubs