The Cartford Inn

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The Cartford Inn
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The Cartford Inn
Location within Lancashire
The Cartford Inn
Interactive map of the The Cartford Inn area
Former namesCartford Hotel
Cartford Arms
Alternative namesTh'fooard [1]
General information
Type Public house
LocationCartford Lane, Little Eccleston-with-Larbreck, Lancashire, England
Coordinates 53°51′38″N2°52′50″W / 53.860531°N 2.880667°W / 53.860531; -2.880667
Elevation32.8 feet (10.0 m)
Owner2007–present: Julie and Patrick Beaumé [2]
Technical details
Floor count3 (main inn building)
Other information
Number of rooms15 (including two cabins)
Website
www.thecartfordinn.co.uk

The Cartford Inn (formerly Cartford Hotel and Cartford Arms) is a public house and boutique hotel in Little Eccleston-with-Larbreck, Lancashire, England. It stands on the southern banks of the River Wyre, just off the Cartford Bridge, one of the few remaining toll bridges in the United Kingdom, with views to the northeast of the Forest of Bowland. [3]

Contents

The Beaumé family have owned the inn since 2007, [2] [4] after they purchased it from John Smith. [5] Julie Beaumé was born in nearby Blackpool, while Patrick Beaumé was born in the Médoc, Bordeaux. [3]

In 2024, it was named AA Inn of the Year for Great Britain. [6]

History

A former coaching inn, [3] the first record of "The Cartford Inn" name was in 1839. [1] It had become the Cartford Hotel by 1853. [7] A landlady in the 1960s was known as "Dirty Annie". [4]

The establishment changed name in the 1980s to the Cartford Arms. [7]

Recognition

In 2024, the inn was named AA Inn of the Year for Great Britain. [8] It has also been included in the Top 50 Gastropubs list [9] and in the Condé Nast Johansens guide. [10] Its restaurant is listed in the Michelin Guide. [11] [12]

The inn has been awarded an AA five-star rating. [13] Before the AA became the licence holder of the quality assessment schemes, the inn also received five stars from VisitEngland. [13]

The Daily Telegraph described the inn as a "quirky yet stylish boutique hotel with a modern British-French restaurant". [14]

The Times described it as "a great foodie find in Lancashire". [15]

Food and drink

The inn's food, which is the work of head chef Chris Bury (formerly of The Fat Duck), [4] [2] was reviewed by The Guardian 's Jay Rayner in 2017 [16] and The Caterer 's Brendan Coyne in 2015. [3] Bury took over the head-chef position from Ian Manning in 2016. [3]

Also on the property is the two-storey River House, [17] which was formerly John Smith's Hart Brewery. [18] [19]

The inn was named the UK's 2020 Pub of the Year by The Daily Telegraph . [4]

Accommodation

There are thirteen rooms in the main inn. [3] There are also two cabins―named Ziggy and the Robins Nest [2] — on the property. [13]

References

  1. 1 2 History - The Cartford Inn official website
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Stunning new additions at the Cartford Inn in Little Eccleston" - Lancashire Life , 10 November 2017
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Better Business: The Cartford Inn" - TheCaterer.com, 16 January 2015
  4. 1 2 3 4 "This north west pub has just been named in the best in the UK" - Manchester Evening News , 8 September 2020
  5. ↑ The Cartford Arms at Geograph.co.uk
  6. ↑ "AA Inn of the Year Awards 2024". The AA. The AA. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  7. 1 2 A History of Blackpool, the Fylde and South Wyre – Nick Moore (2018), p. 258
  8. ↑ "Lancashire's Cartford Inn named AA Inn of the Year 2024" – Lancashire Evening Post, 12 July 2024
  9. ↑ "The Cartford Inn". Top 50 Gastropubs. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  10. ↑ "The Cartford Inn". Condé Nast Johansens. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  11. ↑ "Cartford Inn". Michelin Guide. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  12. ↑ Cartford Inn - Little Eccleston - Michelin Guide official website
  13. 1 2 3 Sleep - The Cartford Inn official website
  14. ↑ "The Cartford Inn review". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  15. ↑ "Cartford Inn review". The Times. Retrieved 2 March 2026.
  16. ↑ "The Cartford Inn, Lancashire: ‘Long may it flourish’ – restaurant review" - The Guardian , 12 November 2017
  17. ↑ Private events - Cartford Inn official website
  18. ↑ "Alan's a diamond geezer" - Lancashire Evening Telegraph , 6 September 2002
  19. ↑ History - HartBrewery.co.uk
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