With 24 comfortable and characterful single, double, and twin B&B hotel rooms in Holmes Chapel, Sandbach, Innkeeper’s Lodge is the perfect spot for a great night’s sleep, whether you’re travelling for business or pleasure. They also have the Innkeeper’s Lodge Sandbach alongside, providing stylish and cosy accommodation for guests. So whether it’s dinner with friends or Sunday lunch with family, they are the perfect spot to spend some quality time with those you love the most. And to complement the delightful pub food, they’ve a wonderful array of fine wines, real ales, soft drinks and spirits for you to enjoy. In March of 2011, Dawn Delaney and Lisa Carlson purchased the property.The seasonal food menus at The Bear’s Head are full of delicious hearty dishes such as slow-cooked lamb shank, steak & mushroom pie, and the infamous Hunter’s chicken. Tony and Janet Fenner continued the development of the Inn by creating a blend of an English country garden and mountain pines retreat.

The property was lovingly renovated by Mike Acton and Jean Wu who purchased the property in 1987 creating a cozy country Victorian bed & breakfast. In 1979, the Inn was a set in the movie Wanda Nevada, with Peter Fonda, Henry Fonda and Brooke Shields. The property first became a lodging place in 1952, welcoming travelers coming up Route 89, then the main road from Phoenix.

Photographs taken of the Haymore family and the dairy (circa 1948) are on display in the living and dining room. Inn guests are welcomed through the home’s original double front doors, indicative of Mormon architecture. The Inn’s main house was built by Arthur & Abby Haymore as their home, where they raised 14 children. The Haymore Dairy provided milk to the townspeople of Prescott for over a decade. Twenty-three acres of the orchard were sold to Merle Allen of the Allen Trading Company in 1927, and became known as the Haymore Dairy when purchased by Arthur S. One of the original apple trees still bears fruit and shades the Inn’s patio garden area. The ranch land was cleared, planted in fruit trees, and renamed the Brookside Orchard. In 1909, two years after Judge Brooks’ death, the ranch was sold to Mr. His log cabin home on Granite Creek was known as the Brookside Ranch, and included the acreage where the Inn sits. The Prescott Pines Inn shares a rich history that goes back to 1863, a year before Prescott became the first territorial capital of Arizona, when Judge Hesekiah Brooks moved to Prescott from California.

The innkeepers lodge