Vol. XI·Spring Issue·Submissions Desk
Submit an inn.
A standing invitation from the Register. We accept, anonymously and free of charge, the names of coaching inns, country pubs with rooms and old stagecoach stops that ought to be on file. Innkeepers, tourism boards, walkers, regulars — write to us. No fee is paid for inclusion. No fee is charged for review.
The Slip
A small form for a working note.
Please complete what you can. Half a record is more useful than a polite hesitation. We will follow up by telephone or email within ten working days.
House Rules
A short preamble, in the manner of small print.
The Coach & Horses reviews working coaching inns and historic coaching-house pubs only. Hotels, B&Bs, country-house hotels of recent construction, gastropub chains and themed rooms above breweries are, however charming, out of scope. If a venue did not once stable a horse or stage a coach, it is not for us.
Inclusion in the Register is free. No venue pays to be listed, recommended or starred. Every reviewed inn is visited anonymously by a regional reviewer who pays their own bill; the editorial team of nine staff and forty-two regional reviewers holds the Pub-Is-the-Hub training certificate and, since 2014, has published 3,114 long-form reviews averaging 1,400 to 2,200 words apiece.
We do not accept advertising from listed venues, and we do not lend our name to "in partnership with" copy. We are recommended by VisitBritain, VisitScotland, Tourism Ireland and eleven of the fourteen UK regional tourist boards — none of whom, for the avoidance of doubt, have any say over which inns we choose to visit. The Coaching Inn Heritage Trust, an industry body representing more than 340 independent innkeepers, underwrites the Register but does not edit it.
A submission is the beginning of a correspondence, not the purchase of a review. We cannot promise a date of publication, only that the note will be read by a human being in Clerkenwell before the week is out.
Before You Write
Four objections, answered in order.
- Does inclusion cost anything?
- No. The Register charges no listing fee, no review fee and no "star" fee. The model is paid for by readers and the Coaching Inn Heritage Trust, never by innkeepers. If anyone asks you to pay for a place on the Register, they are not us.
- How long until a review appears?
- Somewhere between six weeks and eighteen months, depending on the regional reviewer's queue and the season. Submissions logged in the spring are often visited in the following autumn; the autumn list, after the close of the season. We will not promise a date, but we will write when there is news.
- Who actually reads the submission?
- A regional reviewer with a Pub-Is-the-Hub certificate, working from one of the fourteen UK and Ireland regions. They will arrive without prior warning, eat in the bar, sleep in a bedroom, and pay their own bill. They will not introduce themselves until the review is filed.
- Can a tourism board submit a venue on an innkeeper's behalf?
- Yes, and we welcome it. Eleven of the fourteen UK regional tourist boards already do. The note will be cross-checked against the 1822–1901 stagecoach route gazetteers and, if the building pre-dates 1900 and still operates as an inn, the venue is likely in scope.
A Quiet Close
Not an innkeeper?
Read the Register instead.
If you have wandered onto this page by accident — looking for a weekend, a walking base, a gastropub with a fire — the 1,847 inns on file are waiting at the front of the magazine. 1,402 in England, 218 in Scotland, 164 in Wales and 63 in Ireland. All reviewed anonymously. All independent. None of them paid to be there.