Red LionInn

The Red Lion occupies an eighteenth-century coaching inn on Alnmouth's main street, run by Ben and Georgie McHugh. CAMRA lists the bar as a heritage pub interior of special national historic interest, citing fixtures from a 1950s refit: the counter, fireplaces and fixed seating remain largely unaltered. Two guest ales rotate through the cellar, generally one from a Borders brewery and one from further afield, and the pub holds an annual beer festival every October. Local tradition holds that panelling in the lounge came from the salvaged liner SS Carpathia, though the pub treats this as folklore rather than fact. Seven en-suite rooms sit above the bar, and the garden looks over the Aln estuary. The pub closes on Tuesdays and shuts through January.