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The beautiful Cotswolds village with just 400 residents that has 'the best pub in England'

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A Georgian pub perched on a hillside in the centre of a charming Cotswolds village has been lauded as "almost certainly the best pub in England" by a top food writer. The Horse and Groom is the watering hole of Bourton-on-the-Hill in Gloucestershire, named by Savills last year as one of the country's "most desirable" villages. New owners Nathan Eades and Liam Goff, who previously ran a critically acclaimed gastropub in Cheltenham, are said to have breathed new life into the pub. So much so, that restaurant reviewer Giles Coren of The Times, who previously gave a mixed review about the same pub in 2016, has awarded it 10 out 10 across all fields of cooking, service and location - despite the village being a hub of fewer than 400 people. Dining out with his family, Coren said they enjoyed an 'immense' meal with starters of Atlantic prawn cocktail, monkfish scampi and Scotch egg. He hailed the double cheeseburger main course as a 'hip and sticky mas...