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There’s the gritty local boozer on one side and, just a few strides down the corridor, there’s an aspiring fine-dining restaurant complete with white tablecloths and a somewhat hushed atmosphere that comes...

The Hilltop Hotel is a fairly sturdy old place with farm fields between it and the nearest house.

The food is definitely worth your attention, now the surroundings of the King’s Head at Nafferton just need to come up to scratch says Dave Lee.

Nothing stays the same as my wise old dad would say. The Victorian, Halifax is such a place. Once an Italian restaurant, it’s a handsome building on the end of Powell Street opposite Somerset House. Owned...

The fingerprints of The Beautiful South are currently all over the northern pub trade. Singer Paul Heaton owns a fabulous boozer called the King’s Arms in Salford, drummer Dave Stead has a finger in several...

The Keys (once The Cross Keys) has been a fixture of Hoyland life for a good few generations. But, like so many other pubs in Yorkshire, it fell upon hard times and for a while was boarded up and looked almost ready for demolition. But those days are now behind it and, re-vamped and re-named The Keys, it is mercifully once again open and doing rather well.

Then there was the small matter of making the beer to sell – hopefully to customers. Smith has previous; he ran the Black Horse Brewery in Luddendenfoot 20 years ago.Horbury has learned quickly and together...

Sorry to disappoint, but Sheffield’s pub with that very same name is next to a very busy road and the side that abuts the water has a sheer drop into the fast-flowing and occasionally slightly murky River...

Why? Well, firstly, it is always buzzing. I have yet to pop in when it is not heaving, and don’t even think about it on race days given the Fox and Roman’s proximity to the racecourse. Even on the most...

The Runswick Bay Hotel is worth the climb as Amanda Wragg discovers