In an ideal world, what you want after a morning’s ramble through the remote but breathtaking Washburn Valley is a welcoming pub in a picture-postcard village serving pints of well-kept local beer
& wholesome, value-for-money food. Welcome to the Timble Inn. An 18th-century, Grade II-listed building, it stood empty for decades, but is now a stylish, comfortable hostelry with trademark
stone floors, beams & some gloriously quirky touches: hunting-jacket tweed has been used as upholstery, & the Farrow & Ball walls are bedecked with monster gothic mirrors & glass
candle sconces. Homemade treats from the kitchen might include smoked salmon pâté with buttered toast fingers, steak & kidney pie laced with Theakstons bitter, & perhaps a fruit crumble to
finish.