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The 50 best Country pubs

Whether it’s for quaffing real ale in a traditional inn or sipping wine in a sun-soaked beer garden, Rhiannon Batten locates the best venues to quench the thirst amid the best of British scenery

Saturday 26 June 2010 00:00 BST

This week’s panel

Roger Protz edits the ‘Good Beer Guide’ ( www.beer-pages.com );

Pete Irvine is the author of ‘Scotland the Best’ (£14.99, Collins);

David Hancock is the editor of ‘Sawday’s Pubs & Inns of England and Wales’ ( www.sawdays.co.uk );

Jonathan Manning is editor of ‘Country Walking’ magazine ( www.livefortheoutdoors.com );

Fiona Stapley is editor of ‘The Good Pub Guide’ ( www.thegoodpubguide.co.uk )

Reader email: 50best@independent.co.uk

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