The Fauconberg Arms sits on the handsome sloping street through Coxwold, a stone village inn with log fires, a restaurant in the old cart shed and rooms upstairs. Shandy Hall, home of the novelist Laurence Sterne, is a short walk up the road. Thirsk is the nearest station, about 13km west.

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