Essex is a firm favourite for a quick weekend break away from London and a good restaurant with rooms offers a particularly lovely stay. Here's the best foodie hotels in Essex.
A guide to the best old English inns – for Michelin-starred dining, historic architecture, creaking corridors and resident ghosts. Expect the country's finest craft ales, rousing bucolic views, country walks on the doorstep, and rooms all four-poster beds, exposed beams and rolltop baths – in the Cotswolds, Berkshire, Lancashire, Surrey, Yorkshire, Helmsley, the Lake District and the Isle of Wight
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