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Red Lion Freehouse

It's the superb food cooked by Mr and Mrs Manning (both are top chefs) that draws customers from far and wide, but this is also a proper pub where locals congregate by the bar for a pint and a chat. You'll find Ramsbury Blindside, Box and Stonehenge ales on handpump, 24 wines by the glass, home-made cordials, quite a range of gins and a dozen malt whiskies. One long room is split into different areas by brick and green-planked uprights. A big woodburner sits in a brick inglenook fireplace at one end; at the other is a comfortable black leather armchair, and in between are high-backed and farmhouse wooden dining chairs around various tables on bare boards or stone tiles, with pretty flowers and church candles dotted about. There's an additional dining area too and an upstairs private dining room; background music. Outside, the terrace and grassed area above it have picnic-sets and tables and chairs. They make their own dog treats and can organise a packed lunch for walkers. Just across the road from the pub is their boutique guesthouse, Troutbeck. The five well equipped and extremely comfortable bedrooms have private decks overlooking the River Avon and breakfasts are delicious; the bloody marys and bucks fizz are complimentary.