Awards & Reviews

We are listed in many Hotel and Restaurant guides, click on the below to read their reviews;

One of Britain’s cosiest hotels.
The perfect retreat for a winter weekend. Book one of the seven bedrooms with its own peat fire and curl up, warm as toast, to admire the glorious Forest of Bowland view. The beds are exquisitely comfortable.
Times Online November 15 – 10 best British hotels with fires
Time to banish the gloom and fine yourself a roaring fire. Tom Chresshyre fans the flames with his top ten UK fireplaces.

The Times October 25th 2008

10 Top eateries with ambience. Get into Hallowe’en spirit with Square Meal’s guide to the best atmospheric spots nationwide. The Inn At Whitewell. This is a well-kept secret in a gorgeous setting amid the misty moors and rolling fells of the Forest of Bowland…

The Good Food Guide 2009

The Inn at Whitewell – Upper-tier Pub Food – Cooking score 3. This handsome, rambling Bowland inn has superb views over the River Hodder towards the Trough of Bowland…

Good Hotel Guide 2009

Stunningly set, high above the River Hodder, this old inn, owned by the Duchy of Lancaster and managed by Charles Bowman, has views across the Forest of Bowland…

Alastair Sawdays, Special Places to Stay 2008

It is almost impossible to imagine a day when a better inn will grace the English landscape. Everything here is perfect. The inn sits just above the River Hodder with five-mile views across…

Which Magazine – October 2008

Raising the bar. Gastropubs have been the biggest culinary movement of the past decade, and there are more than ever in the 2009 edition of The Good Food Guide…

Historical royal retreat is ideal for all classes

Deanna Delamotta sampled a traditional inn in the heart of the Forest of Bowland and surveyed spectacular Lancashire scenery – from the comfort of her own room.

BBC Gardeners World – Friday 1st August 2008

Sitting just above the River Hodder, this former Deerkeeper’s lodge has sweeping views across parkland to rising fells in the distance and down the valley into the Forest of Bowland.

The Observer – Sunday 10th August 2008

You can’t get any mobile reception here, making it the ideal hideaway. With massive four-poster beds, giant shower heads and roll-top baths, the rooms are reason enough to come to this lovers’ paradise…

Weekend’s Top places to dine out – Come rain or shine. Summer 2008

The Inn At Whitewell – Life can seem pretty sunny sitting outside in the flower filled riverside garden admiring the vast forest beyond. The food here is simple but delicious…

Clitheroe Advertiser / Gardeners’ World – August 2008
Picture perfect inn is the tops

A picture perfect pub garden in the Ribble Valley has come out on top in a poll by BBC Gardeners’
World magazine. The popular monthly magazine set out to find 10 pubs across the UK with beautiful…

The English Home – August 2008

Special Places – There’s a certain pleasure to be had from sharing the hidden gems we’ve had the good fortune
to stumble upon. We’d like to use these pages to spread the word, so do write and tell us about yours…

The Sunday Telegraph – 10th February 2008

10 Best pubs for lunch and chosen by the Good Pub Guide – Inn at Whitewell…

The Good Hotel Guide