Great Inns Turn 21

15/08/2008

With the addition of two new members taking the total membership to 21, The Great Inns of Britain family has come of age. Castle House Hotel, an elegant Georgian townhouse in Hereford, and Barnsdale Lodge Hotel, a former farm house in Rutland, join a collection that includes some of the most characterful, stylish and historic Inns in the country.

Membership to Great Inns of Britain is by invitation only from the existing members, and the collection was first brought together eleven years ago by Paul Whittome, owner of The Hoste Arms at Burnham Market in Norfolk, and Sir Thomas Ingilby, owner of The Boars Head in Ripley, North Yorkshire.

Sir Thomas Ingilby, Chair of the Great Inns of Britain, said:

We are delighted to welcome Castle House Hotel and Barnsdale Lodge Hotel to the Great Inns of Britain. Whilst different in many ways to the existing Inns in this collection, these two fabulous properties offer the essential characteristics of the group historic, stylish interiors, first class food and excellent wines at honest prices, and above all a warm welcome. That is the magic of the Great Inns of Britain - they all have an individual character which endures in a most fantastic way.