Notts' best country pub which most 'have no idea' is in tiny village

With a spacious beer garden, plenty of different drinks options and quality home-cooked food, the Dovecote Inn is every inch an idyllic rural pub. That's not all, with three guest bedrooms, it was also a proud winner on Channel 4's Four in a Bed, the series where B&B owners score each other's properties.

The chocolate box pub has climbing hydrangea around the back door and a dovecote - a birdhouse for doves and pigeons - in the beer garden. The building used to be a farmhouse until it became a public house around 1835. The kitchen is a far cry from the days it used to be the pigsty. They certainly impressed the other competitors, triumphing at the end of the week-long programme screened in April 2021. One of the series' most contentious issues is the lack of a proper cooked breakfast but the Dovey's continental breakfast, back then served on a tiered cake stand, won their rivals over.

Sam said: "It's quite a big community thing. On the third Thursday of November we have a jury day, so all the farmers meet here in the morning. I do tea and coffee for them and we jump on the back of a tractor and trailer and head out to one of the fields which gets nominated the year before. "We don’t do fancy food, it's proper pub food but done nicely. It's not pretentious," said Sam. As a free house they can sell whatever beers they like. Timothy Taylor's Landlord is a staple - and the pub is part of the Champions Club for consistently keeping the beer as perfect as possible.

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