Sentence examples for splendid inn from inspiring English sources
· 01225 709131; thepeartreeinn.com The Westcote Inn, Nether Westcote, Oxfordshire Owned and run by locals Steve and Tracey Hunt, and their neighbour Julia Reed, this splendid inn features a gorgeous Cotswold stone exterior and stylish bedrooms with Egyptian cotton sheets, walk-in showers and Jo Malone toiletries.
As custodians of Araya Totoan in Yamashiro, they have managed the prefecture's most splendid ryokan (traditional inn) for an incredible 18 generations, stretching all the way back to the time of the ruling Maeda clan.
· 01756 729000; devonshirehotels.co.uk The Drunken Duck, Ambleside, Cumbria This 17th-century inn standing in splendid isolation offers spectacular views across Windermere.
This splendid if creaky Dutch Colonial sandstone inn has been through some bumpy times in its 218-year history, but none bumpier than the past decade.
After being closed for three years, The American Club was reconfigured in 1981 as a grand inn, and it is as splendid a Late Gothic-Victorian structure as may be found in the nation.
Not only is the Bull Inn (01189 693901, fullershotels.com; last-minute rates from £75 per double, B&B) still "a veritable picture of an old country inn, with green, square courtyard in front", it serves a splendid lunch, too.
By the beginning of the 17th century, all the Inns had acquired the actual ownership of their sites and begun building splendid halls, a process that continued through the century.
