Pubs with Rooms in Aylsham

Aylsham is a small market town in the valley of the River Bure, around ten miles inland from the North Norfolk coast. It has a Market Place with a town hall, and the Black Boys Inn on the corner — the town’s pub with rooms, a refurbished coaching inn with eight en-suite bedrooms (its own site also announced five more in a neighbouring Georgian building, which we haven’t counted).

The other two pubs are in the countryside just north of the town. The Bucks Arms at Blickling stands next to Blickling Hall with four rooms, three of them with four-poster beds, and dogs welcome in the bar and some of the bedrooms for £15 a stay. The Saracens Head at Wolterton is a six-room Georgian inn in the Norfolk countryside, ‘middle of nowhere, centre of everywhere’ by its own description, with a kitchen open Wednesday to Sunday and dogs welcome everywhere except the dining room.

On food, the Black Boys and Bucks Arms are traditional pubs with real ales and home-cooked menus, and the Saracens Head is the most food-led of the three, with a seasonal menu on Wednesday to Sunday. Dogs are welcome in the bars at all three, but they are barred from the restaurants at the Black Boys and the Saracens Head, so if you want to dine with a dog at those two it will be in the bar.