Across Britain, boozers have gone boutique, pairing pints of real ale with seriously stylish bedrooms. The food’s stepped up too, sometimes all the way to Michelin-starred heights (take a bow, the Star Inn at Harome). Other pubs go for personality: a microbrewery and farm shop at Wiltshire’s the Three Daggers, or a world-class art collection at the Fife Arms in Aberdeenshire. The Hand at Llanarmon, Ceiriog Valley, DenbighshireThe Hand at Llanarmon has an outdoor hot tubSoak up the scenery from the outdoor hot tub at this locals’ pub in the scenic Ceiriog Valley by the Berwyn Mountains. The former farmstead at the crossroads of two drovers’ roads has bags of atmosphere amid its wooden beams, oak settles and roaring fires.
