Great Pubs of England: Thirty-three of Britain's Best Hostelries from the Home Counties to the North: Thirty-three of England's Best Hostelries from the Home Counties to the North

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Some bedrooms have open four-poster beds, others dreamy views down the Lyth valley, many have high ceilings and open beams. Friedrichs and Stuart Husband explores the best of England’s illustrious pub culture in all its idiosyncratic glory and infinite variety. It's well off the beaten tourist track in an area of soft green valleys and damson orchards which is beautifully peaceful. This pub spills onto the expansive green of picturesque, honey-stone Bledington, in glorious walking and cycling countryside. Self-described ‘purveyors of craic’, Skehans is a proud Irish pub and part of a dying breed of independent family-run free houses in an area of South London that’s fast becoming gentrified.

Facilities include a large, popular garden with a pizza oven in the summer months; virtually all-day dining; and free parking with direct access to the bedrooms – elegant in soft milky colours. Great Pubs of England: Thirty-three of Britain's Best Hostelries from the Home Counties to the North : Horst A.

It’s the perfect snapshot of where pubs have been, where they are now, and where they might be headed. THE PALM TREE, BOW, LONDON: This pub has been run by East End couple Val and Alf Barrett since 1977 - 'and pretty much preserved in aspic ever since'.

The nine rooms are country-smart with vintage-style furniture, velvet or tweed headboards and feature walls. Six of the eight rooms are dotted above the original pub, accessed by creaky old staircases, with the remaining two in the separately accessed Doghouse. This hidden treasure is a modern day version of a country tavern – it’s at once a genuine pub that brews its own very smooth ales; a lovely restaurant with real local flavour; and a charming hotel with rural-chic bedrooms. The inn dates back to 1560 and behind its pistachio-green façade is a cosy village pub with rustic oak beams, crooked ceilings and vast brick fireplaces.A new book, Great Pubs of England, does just that, presenting documentary and portrait photographer Horst A Friedrichs’ images of 33 the country’s “most notable pubs”, alongside texts by travel journalist Stuart Husband.