Since the time of travellers taking the journey along the London to Holyhead road during the Regency, Georgian and Victorian eras to more recent holidaymakers enjoying the staggering beauty of Snowdonia, there's a village inn and hotel that has welcomed them all.
Offering a cool drink and pub grub by the riverside at Bethesda in Gwynedd, the Douglas Arms Hotel and Inn has been a roadside companion to countless thousands of travellers, visitors and local residents.
The pub and hotel was built between 1820 and 1830 as a coaching inn to serve Thomas Telford's new turnpike road to Holyhead that opened at around the same time. And what a welcome sight to weary travellers it must have been when long journeys were considerably less comfortable than today.
