Legacy Rose & Crown

Forget the seven minutes’ walk to the cathedral, there’s a bucolic air to this riverside medieval coaching inn. Ignore the wonky 13th-century beams, this hotel has modern standards. The accommodation splits between snug and traditional in the medieval inn and larger more modern rooms in a 1960s garden wing that looks over the river to the cathedral. There are 32 rooms in total and those on the ground floor open onto the garden. A Full English/Irish breakfast is available. The Rivers Edge Restaurant where the hotel serves breakfast, lunch and dinner to residents and non-residents alike, offers picturesque views of across the Avon combined with ‘Sheep in the meadows’ by Constable.