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The Olive Branch

Clipsham, Rutland LE15 7SH

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The Olive Branch

The personal touch

Among Rutlanders, the Olive Branch Clipsham is a legend in its own lunchtime. Chef-patron Sean Hope grew up in the village, returning in 1999 with hotelier Ben Jones to rescue his cottagey local from closure. Within a year or two the pair had transformed it into a dining tour de force, and Sean became only Britain’s second pub chef to pocket a Michelin star. The interior remains true to the inn’s 17th-century roots, however: fires crackle picturesquely, settles and sideboards creak, and sepia sunlight filters prettily through small-paned windows. Locals are very welcome to sup a pint of Olive Ale at the bar, while the community spirit extends to village-made crafts for sale – Petra Wright’s artful ceramics, Sheila Featherstone’s splashy oils. And the atmosphere? Cosier than Mrs Tiggy-winkle’s parlour.

Sticky fingers

One family suite in Beech House sleeps four, another bedroom has a sofa bed, a third can take a single day-bed. The kitchen prides itself on home-cooked children’s dishes using “the same fresh ingredients from the main menu”: Lincolnshire sausage, mash and veg £5.25; add a dessert for £7.25.

Muddy paws

The three downstairs bedrooms are dog-friendly, and well-behaved pooches are welcome in the bar area.

Alfresco

The garden out front is a suntrap in summer, with eight neat patio tables under the plant-festooned pergola. A basket of blankets are on hand if the sun goes in.

What’s on?

Regular wine dinners and gourmet evenings to suit the season, plus Sean hosts occasional butchery masterclasses.

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David Hancock says

The Best Bits

Best A1 pit-stop for miles
Cosy interior with crackling fires
Sean’s food – well-judged flavours
Menu champions local suppliers
Rustic chic rooms across the road
Pub shop – wines, home-made goodies

What’s the Damage?

6 doubles: £115-£175 (£30 for children if sharing). Winter packages with dinner, fizz and chocolates from £250 per couple per night; B&B weekend breaks from £135 per couple per night.

Inn Places Perk

Local beers in the room on arrival

What Else?

All credit cards (except Amex)
Private dining facilities
Alfresco dining
Disabled access to restaurant and
‘Chocolate’ bedroom
Parking

Gongs

Good Hotel Guide; Harden's; Michelin; Waitrose Good Food Guide

The Olive Branch

Do not disturb

When Hope and Jones opened Beech House, adding half a dozen rustic-chic rooms just across the road from the inn, Olive Branch aficionados rejoiced: now there was never any need to leave. There is a country-rectory feel to the place, complete with shared coat hooks in the hallway, but the rooms are as luxurious as you could hope, individually arrayed with antique beds and country-French trimmings. Those downstairs each have their own mini-terrace, but for world-class winter wallowing choose ‘Double Cream’, its vast bathroom complete with claw foot bath.

Creature comforts

Hand-stitched mattresses; duck-down duvets; Egyptian linen sheets; and deep, double-ended bathtubs. There is mineral water in the room, and bar drinks can be delivered.

Gadgets

Roberts radios; free wi-fi throughout; tucked-away TV sets; and kettle trays with real coffee.

Pampering

White Company toiletries in all bedrooms, and (coming soon) there’s a plan to develop a smallholding next to Beech House, and add outdoor hot-tubs to two of the downstairs rooms overlooking the grazing animals.

What’s for breakfast?

Everything you can think of from the full English to dippy eggs with soldiers, served in front of the cow barn woodburner.

What’s the damage?

6 doubles £115-£175. Add £30pp for children sharing. Winter packages with dinner, fizz and chocolates from £250 per couple per night; B&B weekend breaks from £135 per couple per night.

Book a room at this inn

David Hancock says

The Best Bits

Best A1 pit-stop for miles
Cosy interior with crackling fires
Sean’s food – well-judged flavours
Menu champions local suppliers
Rustic chic rooms across the road
Pub shop – wines, home-made goodies

What’s the Damage?

6 doubles: £115-£175 (£30 for children if sharing). Winter packages with dinner, fizz and chocolates from £250 per couple per night; B&B weekend breaks from £135 per couple per night.

Inn Places Perk

Local beers in the room on arrival

What Else?

All credit cards (except Amex)
Private dining facilities
Alfresco dining
Disabled access to restaurant and
‘Chocolate’ bedroom
Parking

Gongs

Good Hotel Guide; Harden's; Michelin; Waitrose Good Food Guide

The Olive Branch

Mastering the menu

Sean’s cooking offers French finesse in pub-sized portions – not too titivated, but thick with well-judged flavours. You can trace where your lunch came from on the back of each day’s menu: a hand-drawn map throngs with local suppliers, including venison from Rutland estates; pheasant and pigeon from shoots across the Vale of Belvoir; and curious cheeses from local dairies including Colwick and Slipcote. The list extends right down to “Mrs Larkworthy’s Jerusalem artichokes”. Lunch and dinner typically run to eight or nine just-right starters and mains: warm tartlet of wild mushroom with wood-pigeon perhaps, followed by roast pheasant with pearl barley and roots. There are wholesome sides if you’re really famished (honey-roast parsnips, sauteed purple sprouts), or (at lunchtime) a trio of sandwiches if you’re not (salt beef with caremelised onions and horseradish, £8.50). There’s a blackboard set lunch from Monday to Saturday (two courses £16.95, three for £19.95), and an even better-value gourmet five-courser on Sunday to Thursday evenings (£29.50). Whenever you visit, you’ll find down-home gingham napiery, hefty wood-handled cutlery, and a young waiting crew in crisp navy aprons who can’t do enough for you. What more can we say? Even Giles Coren liked it.

On the menu

Pan-seared red mullet fillet, griddled leeks, orange and rosemary, £7.25.
Warm terrine of confit duck leg, quince and pickled walnuts, £7.25.
Haunch of venison, juniper fondant, braised red cabbage, honey roast parsnips, £20.50.
Fillet of salmon, polenta fritters, saffron mussels, £17.50.
White forest gateau and black-cherry sorbet, £6.95.

Sunday roasts

3-course set lunch £25.50.
Corn-fed roast chicken breast, £16.95; roast thick rib of beef, £17.50; roast chump of lamb £18.95

Foodie Extras

Party dining and business lunches for up to 20 in the charmingly converted cow barn that adjoins the inn. On your way out, nip into the inn’s own shop, peddling home-made pickles, chutneys, jams and patés, plus local-grown eggs, honey and butter. Oh, and wines galore. The team will even create their dishes as ready-meals for you to wow friends with at your next dinner party!

Time to eat

Lunch: 12 noon - 2pm (3pm Sunday)
Dinner: 6.30pm - 9.30pm (from 7pm Saturday; 7pm-9pm Sunday)

Local, local, local

Goose – Botterill & Son, Croxton Kerrial (www.freerangebirds.co.uk).
Pork – Grasmere Farm, Deeping St James www.grasmere-farm.co.uk).
Stilton – Cropwell Bishop Creamery (www.cropwellbishopstilton.com).
Ales – Grainstore Brewery, Oakham (www.grainstorebrewery.com).

Behind the bar

The inn’s commitment to quality imbibing is every bit as powerful as its love of great food, with own-label Olive Ale bitter from Oakham on the bar and a bottled-beer menu that stretches from Brewsters Brewery (Grantham) to Barcelona and beyond. There is homemade strawberry vodka in summer, sloe gin straight from the hedgerow in winter; while the bespoke cocktail list includes the zingy Clipsham Cooler (gin, apple juice, elderflower, mint and lemon). Try it with Burleighs gin, distilled up the road in Leicestershire. The wine list is full of surprises, with red and white “wines of the month” instead of dull house staples, and a dozen offered in handy half-litre carafes. No fewer than seven champagnes, too. Why not jot down your own tasting notes and add them to the rack beside the bar?

Bar snacks

The bar-snack blackboard says everything about the inn’s commitment to quality food: local Grasmere Grunta salami (£3), padron peppers (£1.75), pickled cockles (£2), chorizo cooked in cider (£2.95) and more. And what could be toastier than hot chestnuts roasted on the fire in winter – just help yourself.

Time at the bar

12 noon - 3pm and 6pm - 11pm (12 noon - 11pm Saturday; 12 noon - 10.30pm Sunday)

Book a room at this inn

David Hancock says

The Best Bits

Best A1 pit-stop for miles
Cosy interior with crackling fires
Sean’s food – well-judged flavours
Menu champions local suppliers
Rustic chic rooms across the road
Pub shop – wines, home-made goodies

What’s the Damage?

6 doubles: £115-£175 (£30 for children if sharing). Winter packages with dinner, fizz and chocolates from £250 per couple per night; B&B weekend breaks from £135 per couple per night.

Inn Places Perk

Local beers in the room on arrival

What Else?

All credit cards (except Amex)
Private dining facilities
Alfresco dining
Disabled access to restaurant and
‘Chocolate’ bedroom
Parking

Gongs

Good Hotel Guide; Harden's; Michelin; Waitrose Good Food Guide
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Activities
Places to Visit

WALKING

www.walkinginlincs.co.uk
www.stamford.co.uk
There are numerous enjoyable walks of different lengths around Clipsham and Stamford. Close by is Rutland Water, Europe’s largest man-made reservoir, with its lakeside paths and picturesque views. The Lincolnshire Wolds have plenty of gently undulating routes and to the south of Stamford is sprawling Rockingham Forest with its visitor centre, café and network of woodland trails. Try also a walking tour of Stamford, a charming town of ancient streets and handsome buildings that was chosen as one of the main settings for the 1990s BBC adaptation of Middlemarch.

CYCLING

www.cycle-route.com
www.rutlandcycling.co.uk
Lincolnshire and Rutland’s essentially flat terrain and pleasant countryside make this region cycle friendly. Around Stamford and Clipsham you’ll find plenty of enjoyable routes. Pedal beside Rutland Water and you’ll find peaceful paths and tracks well away from busy roads and disturbance. The route never strays far from the water’s edge.

EVENTS & FESTIVALS

www.stamfordartscentre.com
At Bourne, a short drive from Clipsham, is a purpose-built auditorium in the grounds of Tolethorpe Hall, providing the setting for the annual summer season of outdoor Shakespeare plays. Prior to performances, theatregoers can dine in the Hall or picnic on the lawns. Tickets for the Stamford Shakespeare Festival are available from Stamford Arts Centre. The Corn Exchange Theatre in Stamford is also a popular arts venue for live music, drama and comedy.

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Activities

Tallington Lakes Leisure Centre PE9 4RJ
Over 200 acres of clean, spring-fed water offer plenty of fun and water-based adventure a short distance from Stamford. In these spectacular surroundings you can water-ski, jet-ski, canoe or windsurf.

Ballooning PE9 2RE
Savour the freedom and tranquility of drifting over Rutland Water, Oakham Castle and the surrounding landscape in a hot-air balloon. Balloons launch from sites near Edith Weston and at Stamford Meadows near Stamford.

Nene Valley Railway, Stibbington PE8 6LR
This railway was once a vital rural cross-country route linking East Anglia to the Midlands. A casualty of the Beeching axe (which led to thousands of railway station closures in the UK), Nene Valley Railway closed in 1966. However, since 1977 it has operated as a popular visitor attraction, offering enthusiasts the complete steam train experience.

Burghley Horse Trials, Stamford PE9 2LH
Burghley has been staging this famous three-day event on its estate every autumn for more than 50 years - no other international horse trial has hosted as many championships. The prize money for first place is £50,000.

Places to Visit

Rockingham Castle, Market Harborough LE16 8TH
Perched on the edge of an escarpment with spectacular views over five counties, Rockingham Castle, near Market Harborough, is noted for its fine period furniture and impressive works of art. Charles Dickens was a regular visitor, inspired to include Rockingham Castle as one of the settings in Bleak House.

Burghley House, Stamford PE9 3JY
With appearances in highly successful movies such as The Da Vinci Code and Pride & Prejudice, Burghley House at Stamford is one of the region’s most famous visitor attractions. It’s also one of the largest and grandest houses of the first Elizabethan era.

Easton Walled Gardens, Easton, Grantham NG33 5AP
Lincolnshire’s nationally acclaimed ‘Lost Gardens’ are a must for all serious horticulturalists as well as those who simply like to visit grand gardens. At Easton, 400 years of gardening have produced amazing results: a wonderfully tranquil atmosphere and exquisite surroundings.

Woolsthorpe Manor, Grantham NG33 5PD
This small 17th-century manor house near Grantham has a fascinating history. It was the birthplace and family home of Sir Isaac Newton, world-famous scientist, mathematician, alchemist and Master of the Royal Mint. It was here that Newton produced some of his greatest and most influential work - and you can still see that famous apple tree.

Stamford Museum PE9 1PJ
Stamford Museum explains the fascinating history and archaeology of the town from its origins to the present day, through a series of displays, galleries and exhibitions. Its archives are available for students and researchers to view and the museum also organises a series of public lectures.

Shopping

Dickinson & Morris, Nottingham Street, Melton Mowbray LE13 1NR
A tour of this Leicestershire town is a must for anyone who loves one of Britain’s best-loved products – Melton Mowbray is the home of the traditional pork pie. Dickinson & Morris’s pork pie shop is the place to seek out, established in the town in 1851.

Northfield Farm Shop, Cold Overton LE15 7QF
This award-winning farm shop at Cold Overton near Oakham is the perfect destination for home-reared rare and traditional breed meats, as well as locally shot game shot, home-cured bacon and a variety of local cheeses. There’s also a choice of local bottled beers – among many other products.

Snow Designs and Interiors, St Mary’s Street, Stamford PE9 2DS
Four floors of furniture, gifts, clothes and accessories are the draw at this busy Stamford shop. Snow Designs also features the work of local craftsmen, artists and printers and showcases various designers.

St Mary's Books, St Mary’s Hill, Stamford PE9 2DP
Browsing among the thousands of books at Stamford’s premier bookshop is a real treat. You’ll find numerous rare and unusual books on a variety of subjects as well as favourite authors.

St Martins Antiques Centre, High Street, Stamford PE9 2LF
Home to the largest collection of antiques in Stamford, St Martins Antiques Centre was founded in 1993 and leases space to many exhibitors. There are experts on hand to discuss your requirements or assist you in your search for fine quality antiques.

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Book a room at this inn

David Hancock says

The Best Bits

Best A1 pit-stop for miles
Cosy interior with crackling fires
Sean’s food – well-judged flavours
Menu champions local suppliers
Rustic chic rooms across the road
Pub shop – wines, home-made goodies

What’s the Damage?

6 doubles: £115-£175 (£30 for children if sharing). Winter packages with dinner, fizz and chocolates from £250 per couple per night; B&B weekend breaks from £135 per couple per night.

Inn Places Perk

Local beers in the room on arrival

What Else?

All credit cards (except Amex)
Private dining facilities
Alfresco dining
Disabled access to restaurant and
‘Chocolate’ bedroom
Parking

Gongs

Good Hotel Guide; Harden's; Michelin; Waitrose Good Food Guide

Rates & Booking

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AppleRoomBedBreakfast 115.00 115.00 135.00 135.00 115.00 115.00 115.00
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BerryRoomDinnerBedBreakfast 230.00 230.00 230.00 230.00 230.00
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Location, location, location

Seven miles north of Stamford via the A1: take the B668 exit for Oakham and turn right under the A1, heading east on Stretton Road for two miles: the inn is on the left in Clipsham village. It’s a 20-minute taxi ride from Stamford railway station.

Book a room at this inn

David Hancock says

The Best Bits

Best A1 pit-stop for miles
Cosy interior with crackling fires
Sean’s food – well-judged flavours
Menu champions local suppliers
Rustic chic rooms across the road
Pub shop – wines, home-made goodies

What’s the Damage?

6 doubles: £115-£175 (£30 for children if sharing). Winter packages with dinner, fizz and chocolates from £250 per couple per night; B&B weekend breaks from £135 per couple per night.

Inn Places Perk

Local beers in the room on arrival

What Else?

All credit cards (except Amex)
Private dining facilities
Alfresco dining
Disabled access to restaurant and
‘Chocolate’ bedroom
Parking

Gongs

Good Hotel Guide; Harden's; Michelin; Waitrose Good Food Guide

Food Trail

Take it back home - tour the brewery that brewed your favourite pint, visit the shop on the farm that reared your delicious Sunday roast beef, and seek out the roadside stalls selling the local crab and samphire on the inn’s menu, the Food Trail features the local artisan producers and suppliers where you can buy to enjoy at home.
Change of scenery - looking for a pub for lunch following a country walk, a different venue for dinner, or a good café for coffee, light lunch or afternoon tea, then the best in the area are listed below. If you find a new and exciting eatery in the area that’s worthy of a mention on the Food Trail, then please to do let us know – [email protected].

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Grainstore Brewery, Oakham LE15 6RA
Currently celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Grainstore Brewery has won several awards for beers like Rutland Bitter and GB Best, as well as its ciders. Enjoy them in the brewery tap, which hosts regular live music and beer festivals. Brewery tours also available.

The Tobie Norris, 12 St Pauls Street, Stamford PE9 2BE
Part of the Knead group of pubs, this 13th-century inn is set across three floors and a warren of seven rooms. Enjoy stone-baked pizzas, ploughmans’ and lamb direct from the owner’s farm five miles away.

Bull & Swan, Stamford PE9 2LJ
See Inn Places entry

Nelsons Butchers, Red Lion Square, Stamford PE9 2AJ
Nelsons High Class Butchers have been baking in a purpose-built pie factory in Stamford since 1959, and it’s the home of authentic Melton Mowbray pork pies, as well as Lincolnshire sausages. Their pork pie recipes use meat sourced direct from nearby farms or through the local market and their sausage rolls are filled with Lincolnshire sausage meat. The range has now expanded to include their own cooked hams, roast meats and local delicacy haslet.

All Saints Brewery, Stamford PE9 2PA
Established as a steam-powered brewery in 1825, All Saints was restored in the late 1990s. The Stamford site is open for guided tours and tastings (by prior arrangement) and inside you’ll find a brewery shop, restaurant and coffee lounge.

Lord Nelson, 11 Market Place, Oakham LE15 6DT
Dating back to the 1500s and in the heart of Oakham, this lovely old inn is one of the Knead Pubs group and specialises in local ales, stone-baked pizzas and beef and lamb from the owner’s nearby farm.

The Wheatsheaf, Greetham LE15 7NP
Grade II-listed stone-built village inn run by chef Carol Craddock, who used to work with legendary chef Simon Hopkinson at London’s influential Bibendum. Not surprisingly, the philosophy is all about seasonality and the very best local produce.

The Chequers, Woolsthorpe NG32 1LU
See Inn Places entry

Northfield Farm Shop, Cold Overton, Oakham LE15 7QF
The shop at Jan McCourt’s award-winning farm stocks a diverse range, from their award-winning meat, to honey, jams and sloe gin and damson whisky, which is made on the farm. Other alcoholic treats include Bitter, Mild & IPA from The Grainstore Brewery in Oakham, while a variety of cow, goat and sheep’s cheeses can be found here, along with pork pies, pickles and preserves.

The Melton Cheeseboard, 8 Windsor Street, Melton Mowbray LE13 1BU
Here you can find over 150 different varieties of cheese, many of which are sourced locally from Leicester and the surrounding counties. Included among them are White Stilton, Beauvale, Bosworth Field and Smooth Blue.

Berkeley Arms, Wymondham LE14 2AG
Seven miles from Oakham, this award-winning pub is well positioned for walkers exploring the nearby Wymondham Heritage Trail. As well as sandwiches and light meals served in the bar, the restaurant serves a full a la carte menu.

Cropwell Bishop Creamery, Cropwell Bishop NG12 3BQ
Family-run since the 1940s, the world-famous and multi-award-winning cheeses made at Cropwell Bishop include Blue Stilton and Blue Shropshire. Stock up at the dairy shop, open Monday-Saturday.

Grasmere Farm Butchers Shop, Market Deeping PE6 8DL
One of three traditional butchers shops owned by Grasmere Farm, which supplies its range of sausages, bacon and cooked pork products to the Olive Branch. They also make their own pork scratchings from slow cooked crackling and oak-smoked pork snacking salami.

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Because the contract for your accommodation is between you and the relevant inn, any queries or concerns should be addressed to them. If you have a problem during your visit, this must be reported to the inn immediately. If you fail to follow this procedure there will be less opportunity for the inn to investigate and rectify your complaint. The amount of compensation you may be entitled to from the inn may be reduced or you may not receive any at all depending upon the circumstances. If you wish to complain when you return home, you should address your complaint to the inn concerned.


LIMITATION OF OUR LIABILITY

Nothing in these terms of use excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, or our fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.

To the extent permitted by law, we exclude all conditions, warranties, representations or other terms which may apply to our site or any content on it, whether express or implied.

We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

If you are a business user, please note that in particular, we will not be liable for:

If you are a consumer user, please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a virus, distributed denial-of-service attack, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any content on it, or on any website linked to it.

We assume no responsibility for the content of websites linked on our site. Such links should not be interpreted as endorsement by us of those linked websites. We will not be liable for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.


UPLOADING CONTENT TO OUR SITE

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site, or to make contact with other users of our site, you must comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with those standards, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. If you are a consumer user, this means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any content you upload to our site will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us and other users of the Site a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We will not be responsible, or liable to any third party, for the content or accuracy of any content posted by you or any other user of our site.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

The views expressed by other users on our site do not represent our views or values.


VIRUSES

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.


LINKING TO OUR SITE

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

The website in which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our Acceptable Use Policy.

If you wish to make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact .


THIRD PARTY LINKS AND RESOURCES IN OUR SITE

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.


APPLICABLE LAW

If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree to that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. However, if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation (and any non- contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.


CONTACT US

To contact us, please email .

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PRIVACY POLICY


Hancock’s Inn Places Limited ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting https://innplaces.co.uk you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Hancocks Inn Places Limited of 2 Old Bath Road, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 1QL.


INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

We may collect and process the following data about you:


COOKIES

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie policy [LINK].


USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

We use information held about you in the following ways:


DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may share your personal information with any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.

We may share your information with selected third parties including:

We do not sell or disclose your personal information to other companies without your prior consent. We do not sell mailing lists to third parties. If you do not wish to receive the members’ newsletter, toy can unsubscribe or amend your preferences here.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:


WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.


YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at .

Our site may contain links to and from third party websites or Inn Places members, or advertisers. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.


ACCESS TO INFORMATION

The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.


CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

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