Tag Archives: Welshpool

Cross purpose

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Neil Thomas gets round to dining at The Royal Oak in Welshpool — and rather wishes he’d visited earlier.

The Adventure of the Idolised Investigator

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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. So said Conan Doyle’s great consulting detective - but even he would have found the admirable Deerstalkers of Welshpool a pretty improbable collection. Neil Thomas reports . . .

A taste of the Trust

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Neil Thomas enjoys dinner with a difference in the grand surroundings of a National Trust treasure

The singular Dingle dynasty

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Ken Tudor enjoys an autumn visit to a perennial favourite on the Welsh border