THE FACTS ABOUT THE FALKLAND ARMS

England

Not even Cotswold locals realise that The Falkland Arms has rooms squirreled away up the creaking spiral staircase adjacent to the bar. There are five doubles with en-suite bathrooms, all ambience-rich if poor on square footage. Rooms four and five feature antique four-posters. The creeper-clad, 16th-century pub sits in the centre of the privately owned village of Great Tew, a 30-minute drive from Oxford. In summer, sunshine pools in the front-facing beer garden; in winter, the bar is dominated by an open hearth. It is the sum of all its parts that makes The Falkland Arms memorable not the room decor (classic pub chintz), nor the bathroom amenities (no Molton Brown here) but the fact that you can roll from dinner to bed to breakfast and back to bed with very little incentive to leave such an unpretentious gem. You might try an afternoon's walk to work off the delicious pub fare, ranging from local pork sausages to lamb shank cooked simply in rosemary and garlic. Note that rooms are a kids-free zone: only children over the age of 14 are welcome. BOOKING Contact 01608 683 653; www.falklandarms.org.uk. Doubles from £75, including breakfast