'The pub with stunning views and a cracking roast I really wanted to keep to myself'

Any port in a storm, so the saying goes. And after a sturdy walk around some of the Peak District’s more challenging scrambles, most of us would take any old tumbledown country boozer to rest up for a bit.

After a yomp up the mighty Kinder Scout and down Jacob’s Ladder, I’d even give the Slaughtered Lamb, the inhospitable hostel from An American Werewolf In London, some scotch egg time.

The Old Hall Inn, well under an hour from the city centre in the picture postcard hamlet of Whitehough near Chinley, is a bit more friendly than that, though sadly it doesn’t have a dart board.

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This ancient coaching inn dates back to the 1300s, with its buildings comprising everything from a cosy saloon bar with open fires for the winter, to an impressive Elizabethan dining hall. And, if you’re genuinely too done in, you can stay the night here too. It has rooms and cottages, all over the hamlet, not to mention a sister pub The Paper Mill Inn over the road.

It’s the kind of country pub that ticks pretty much every box, with some great circular walks if you want them, or just some solid pub grub if you just want a nice drive out into the countryside without the burning sensation in your thighs. There’s even a beer festival in September.

Outdoors, handsome canvas coverings will keep you shaded from the sun or sheltered from the occasional summer downpour, while you enjoy a pint in its stunning walled garden, with views of Chinley Head towering in the background.

Sheltering inside on a recent Sunday (it was one of the downpour days, until the clouds cleared and the sun dried everything up enough to have pudding outside), it was all about the