TheSound
An Englishman in New York
It's the Flying Childers Inn, in the Peak District village Stanton in Peak, Derbyshire. I wish it was our local boozer as we love it - it's about half an hour's drive away.
I was right then, it looked very 'Peak District' in character, so that's a relief! Despite living in the USA for all those years I still have a pretty good eye for native English rural settings I think, our own village here in Lancashire is very similar. For me the best English pubs are the countryside boozers with the history, of which of course there are tens of thousands as every village has at least one, they also serve the best real-ales and are full of ancient atmosphere. There's a little pub not too far from here which dates back I think to the year 1320!!!!.... and is still going strong, it was an inn originally and it has been serving travellers from Norman times through the Tudor and Elizabethan age right up to date, when you are there you'd swear you were sitting in the Prancing Pony in the village of Bree in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings!!!... they just have a wood log fire for heat, and I think the bathroom is across the field!!