Weobley feels like a place out of time: black-and-white timber leaning gently into five hundred years of of history, a church spire that is the second tallest in Herefordshire, and, at the top of Broad Street, a pub that has just become Karma’s newest, oldest property…
Ye Olde Salutation Inn – The Sal, to those in the know – is the first in a new collection of Karma Country Inns. It boasts three centuries of construction under one roof – Tudor frame, Georgian wing, and Victorian addition. Think low beams, deep fireplaces and the particular quiet of a place that has seen a lot of pints poured. It was, fittingly, requisitioned last year by acclaimed director Chloe Zhao as the backdrop for her award-winning feature Hamnet.
The food is unfussy and exactly as it should be: steak and kidney pudding, a cracking Sunday roast, seasonal specials drawn from Herefordshire’s fields. Delicious local ales and ciders dominate the taps.
Step outside and Weobley unfurls like a storybook: leaning timber-framed houses lining the streets of the Black and White Trail, the spire of St Peter and St Paul rising above it all as one of the county’s tallest. Wander further and the surrounding farmland gives way to orchards, footpaths and the kind of rolling green that makes Herefordshire’s cider country so beloved, with Croft Castle, Berrington Hall and the gloriously eccentric Westonbury Mill Water Gardens all within easy reach for a day’s exploring.
Three en-suite rooms upstairs mean Members can linger longer, using The Sal as a hearth-warmed base for discovering everything this corner of England has quietly kept to itself. There’s no better time than a British summer to experience this rural idyll – but move fast, the three rooms will not hang around for long!
Book The Sal Experience
