Sunday Mirror, 22nd February 2009

Hearth Time – The best hotels with fires

Warning... Staying at the Inn at Whitewell can seriously damage your intentions to return home...

Sunday Telegraph 14th December 2008

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

Lifestyle - June 2007
It's telling that there is a link on the website of the Inn at Whitewell entitled 'How not to get lost'...

Delicious - Feb 2007
The best way to arrive at The Inn At Whitewell in Lancashire would be in a coach-and-four...

The Saturday Guardian - 17th February 2007
If pared-down modern style is your thing, this probably isn’t for you. If however, you like a good pint, memorable food and characterful accommodation, it’s pure perfection...

Lancashire Telegraph - 12th February 2007
The Queen and the Prime Minister of Malta have been among diners at the Inn at Whitewell in recent months, bringing the venue to international attention...

Sunday Express - 21st January 2007
Setting: This 14th century former manor house stands high on the banks of the River Hodder in the beautiful Forest of Bowland – and right in the middle of the Duchy of Lancaster estate...

Saturday Guardian Travel - 4th November 2006
It’s a resounding, “yes, yes, yes” as I enter the Inn at Whitewell, near Clitheroe in Lancashire. Oh it’s ticking the boxes all right: a fire in the grate right by the front door, flagstone floors, clinking glasses and a hubbub of chatter from drinkers sitting at grainy oak tables...

Daily Express - 26th May 2006
The queen was treated to her first pub lunch on an official engagement yesterday...

Lancashire Evening Telegraph - 26th May 2006
Weeks of preparation by staff at the Inn at Whitewell paid off as the Queen sat down to a sumptuous five-course meal yesterday...

Lancashire Evening Telegraph
A renowned East Lancashire hotel has finished a facelift worth more than £1.5million – ahead of an expected visit from the Queen...

Lancashire Evening Telegraph - 26th November 2005
A Clitheroe hotel has won a prestigious award. The Inn at Whitewell has scooped the Conde Nast Johansens Most Traditional Inn Award for 2006...

Conde Nast Traveller - December 2004
For king and country...

Waitrose Food Illustrated - December 2004
To reach Whitewell, you must travel along miles of scenic country roads not unlike the ones Postman Pat would use...

The Sunday Times Travel - 31st August 2003
Now, I’m all for the GHG (Good Hotel Guide) judges’ habit of naming each Cesar award to fit the property selected, rather than finding a place to fit a category. But they’ve got to watch they don’t get too cute. Utterly enjoyable mild eccentricity?...

Awards

AA Five star Inn

 Bowland Charter Assured Member

• Johansson's Most Excellent Traditional Inn 2006
• Good Hotel Guide cesar 2004
• Good pub Guide Inn of the Year 2003
• Lancashire Life Hotel of the Year 2003