WINNER: Battlesteads Hotel & Restaurant
The Project
Battlesteads Hotel & Restaurant in Wark, Northumberland, is renowned for its superb food, welcoming hospitality and outstanding ‘green’ credentials. In fact, it’s widely recognised as one of the UK’s top sustainable tourism destinations and has won numerous awards including the AA Hospitality Eco Hotel of the Year Award 2016 and the Hotel Catey Sustainable Hotel of the Year 2016. Owned by Richard and Dee Slade since 2005, the hotel features 22 bedrooms including five recently built eco lodges, a restaurant with local produce menus, a bar serving biodynamic wines and ales from local micro-breweries and its own on-site observatory.