We visited a boozer near Newport where the landlady uses quality food and drink to make a destination pub for all
It's a historic pub which sits in beautiful countryside on the Shropshire and Staffordshire border and is a pub which sees people come back for the great food, wide range of drinks and warm welcome.
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When running a pub, landlords have to look at how they want to sell their pubs to customers in order to get them to come back.
Some go down the route of being a simple drinkers pub, selling a large range of drinks and very little food, apart from bar snacks, while other pubs go down the gastronomic route and prioritise food over drink.
In some cases, there are pubs that work to be everything to everyone and provide an experience that makes people want to come back again and again.
The Red Lion at Great Chatwell is a pub which the landlady Sharon Fowels said she wanted to be a destination pub and somewhere that she could attract in people from across the region.
Located on the border between Shropshire and Staffordshire, the pub sits in a small hamlet deep in the countryside and has been part of the community since the 17th century, with reports showing brewing taking place at the end of the 18th century.
Having previously been run by Marstons, it was purchased by locals Kevin and Rachel Shaw in 2023 and reopened as a free house in April that year under the stewardship of Ms Fowels, who said she had been in the pub trade for years and was looking to leave it until she got a call from the Shaws.
