The Star Inn | Dog friendly country pub in Northumberland

Welcome to The Star Inn

A refurbished country pub in the Northumberland National Park

The Star Inn was built as a coaching inn over 200 years ago, and similarly to many other properties in the village, was built using sandstone from the ruins of nearby Harbottle Castle. The pub is steeped in history and would have once been used by drovers crossing the Anglo-Scottish border just a few miles away in The Cheviot Hills.

Today, the pub is popular with local residents, holiday makers, walkers and cyclists in a stunning, peaceful area of Coquetdale within the Northumberland National Park and International Dark Sky Park. It has been recently refurbished retaining much of the original character, and there is a large barn and courtyard providing inside and outside seating at the rear. The pub has a good selection of local beers and ice-creams, good wine, hot drinks and cakes as well as a wood fired kitchen serving traditional hand-stretched Italian pizza, pasta, fish, meat and more. There is a well stocked village shop and newsagents at the side of the pub, which is also a small Information Point for the Northumberland National Park.

The pub is dog-friendly and welcomes walkers, cyclists, bikers and families in an area equally well placed for relaxing or exploring the great outdoors.

New owners took over the pub in August 2019 and have been lovingly restoring it whilst building up the business and continuing with many of the local traditions and fundraising activities they inherited. Three en-suite bedrooms with private patio gardens are planned for 2023 to complement their two self-catering holiday cottages in the village.