Pubs & restaurants in LancashireLancashire, England

Ribble Valley country-house hotel and restaurant on the edge of the Forest of Bowland.

A whitewashed village local below Pendle Hill with a rotating cask range and a stream running past the door.

Pennine village pub near Pendle Hill with a strong beer and food reputation.

Big riverside dining pub where the Ribble and Hodder meet at Mitton, with gardens down to the water.

Downham village pub famous for its seafood, perched above one of Lancashire's prettiest streets.

Award-winning country dining inn on lanes south of Lancaster, big on local produce.

Traditional village pub in Goosnargh, known for hearty food and local ales.

Ivy-clad inn in Worston, an easy base for walks up Pendle Hill.

Country inn with rooms and its own microbrewery in the idyllic village of Bolton-by-Bowland.

Country dining pub with its own farm shop and wildflower meadow at Bispham Green.

Well-regarded dining pub in the Fylde market village of Great Eccleston.

Seafood-led dining pub on the old A6 in the Lune valley at Claughton.

Handsome gastropub with rooms on the green of picture-postcard Waddington.

Handsome stone dining pub with a big garden in the Lune valley at Nether Burrow.

The jewel of Bowland: an ancient riverside coaching inn with roaring fires, antique-strewn rooms and Hodder-valley views.

Traditional tucked-away village local behind Waddington's church, all real ale and open fires.

Smart coaching inn with rooms in hilltop Mellor, a well-regarded Ribble Valley dining stop.

Nationally acclaimed Bowland dining pub on the Hodder's bank, championing game, pies and local produce.

Cosy 1930s village pub in Barley, playing up the local witch heritage after a Pendle climb.

Easygoing Ribble Valley steakhouse-with-rooms in the countryside near Browsholme, dogs welcome.

Seventeenth-century inn at the heart of Hurst Green, at the start of the Tolkien Trail.

Family-run traditional pub in the heart of the Silverdale AONB.

Seventeenth-century Grade II inn on the Ribble's bank, looking straight across to the ruins of Sawley Abbey.

Whitewashed riverside inn on the Lune estuary at Conder Green, on the cycle path to Glasson.

Isolated stone pub by Entwistle station in the West Pennine Moors, ringed by reservoirs and moor.

Landmark Ribble Valley dining pub at Mitton, showcasing regional Lancashire producers.

Ribchester village pub whose porch is propped on genuine Roman-era stone columns.

Rambling old country inn in the lanes near Goosnargh, north of Preston.