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Blue Lion

This delightful Georgian coaching inn has for many years been known to provide the highest quality food in exquisite surroundings. It's the perfect choice if you want to explore the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and the long-serving owners welcome damp dog walkers just as warmly as those out for a special meal. The big squarish bar is civilised but informal with soft lighting, high-backed antique settles and old windsor chairs on Turkish rugs and flagstones, ham hooks in the high ceiling decorated with dried wheat, teazles and so forth, a delft shelf full of bric-a-brac, plus several prints, sporting caricatures and other pictures; daily papers. There are three ales including Black Sheep Best on handpump, an impressive wine list including 12 (plus champagne) by the glass, 11 gins and 21 malt whiskies. The candlelit, high-ceilinged and elegant dining room has another open fire. Picnic-sets on the gravel outside look beyond the stone houses on the far side of the village green to Witton Fell, and there's a large, attractive back garden. The 15 comfortable bedrooms have pretty country furnishings; some are in the main house, others in converted stables across the courtyard (these are dog-friendly).