Innkeeper's Lodge Sandbach, Holmes Chapel

This 17th-century former coaching inn offers free private parking just 15 minutes’ drive from Crewe’s town centre. A seasonal menu and continental buffet breakfasts are available in the Bear's Head, a wooden-beamed restaurant joined onto the pub.

Each bright and traditionally decorated room has a TV and tea and coffee making facilities. A hairdryer and free toiletries are included in the en suite bathroom.

Just 5 minutes’ drive from the M6 motorway, Innkeeper's Lodge Sandbach is a 10-minute car journey from Wheelock Hall Farm. The Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre with its giant telescope is 15 minutes’ drive away and the Peak District National Park is a 25-minute drive away.