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Western Esplanade Southampton Hampshire
What with the roaring success of New Forest getaway The Pig – the countryside bolthole on everyone’s wishlist – it was only a matter of time until it gave birth to a piglet. Enter The Pig in the Wall, so named for its location at the historic 15th-century wall of Southampton. Each of the 12 rooms echoes the quirkiness of mummy Pig, featuring four-posters, National Trust guides piled on tables, and clawfoot baths in which to have a soak while dousing yourself in Bramley toiletries. One room even makes full use of the medieval wall itself, which is partially exposed in the corridor to the loo. Downstairs, the breakfast room-cum-café is fit for a bevvie at any time of day, serving up flapjacks, soups and Pig head chef James Golding’s moreish pork scratchings. But there’s more where that came from – twice a night they’ll even ferry B&B guests the 20-minute drive into the forest to eat at The Pig proper, where you’ll dine in the greenhouse restaurant on foraged delights. Back to Southampton to sleep it off, and you’ll rise to a breakfast full of home-made cereals and fruit compotes; the perfect match for a lengthy lounge on purposefully mis-matched armchairs, paper in hand. AEM. Doubles from £115.
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