Sawday's Pub Awards Winners 2008

We're delighted to announce our Pubs Award Winners 2008 - do yourself a favour and go and try them out. Why not take a copy of our guide with you? Buy Pubs & Inns of England & Wales and have it delivered to your door for £12.74 here »

Local, Seasonal & Organic Produce Award

Places with a passion for sourcing seasonal foods from high-quality local suppliers including farm meats, village-baked bread, locally shot game, fish from local catches, homegrown veg and there’s even a pub that hosts a farmers’ market once a month:

Knightwick, Worcester, Worcestershire

01886 821235

Burrow, Kirkby Lonsdale, Lancashire

01524 274249

Kingham, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire

01608 658327

Pub with Rooms Award

The beauty of an inn-with-rooms is that you can eat and drink to your heart’s content safe in the knowledge that a stylish room with a top notch bathroom is only a stagger away. Here are this year’s shining examples:

Longstock, Stockbridge, Hampshire

01524 274249

Buckland Marsh, Faringdon, Oxfordshire

01367 870382

Beeley, Matlock, Derbyshire

01629 733259

Authentic Pub Award

We have visited scores of simple, authentic, unadulterated pubs and sadly, they are a diminishing breed – here are our favourites:

Lane’s End, Old Gloucester Road, Duntisbourne Abbots, Cirencester, Gloucestershire

01285 821432

Gorams Mill Lane, Laxfield, Suffolk

01986 798395

Hoyle Ing, Linthwaite, Huddersfield, Yorkshire

01484 842370

Community Pub Award

Our tribute to those enterprising, hard-working landlords who have succeeded in making their pub the hub of the community:

1 High Street, Stottesdon, Bridgnorth, Shropshire

01746 718270

Main Street, Colton, Tadcaster, Yorkshire

01904 744261

Village Square, Sandford, Crediton, Devon

01363 773676

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