Fiona DuncanAt the foot of the South Downs Way, where the Bloomsbury Group gathered during the wars, the snoozy village of Firle is easy to miss.
The 500-year-old Ram Inn is a corker – the kind of local everyone wishes they had. At the bar, friendly staff pull pints brewed on the doorstep, including artisan ales by Firle brewery Burning Sky and Long Man in Litlington, and there are craft ciders and wines from Sussex’s increasingly good vineyards.
In dining rooms aglow from log fires, inventive dishes feature partridge, pheasant and Dexter beef from 8th Viscount Gage’s Firle Estate.
Then it’s upstairs to bed in one of six muted-palette rooms.Book it: Doubles from £130 including breakfast (01273 858222; raminn.co.uk).
Read more on telegraph.co.uk