Jamaica Inn calls time on 100 years of hunts meeting on its land

The Jamaica Inn in Cornwall: ‘The hunts never spent any money here – they never came in.’ Photograph: Mark Richardson/Alamy

A pub that was the setting for a novel by Daphne du Maurier has banned hunts from meeting on its land after 100 years of the practice.

The Jamaica Inn in Cornwall – immortalised in the 1936 novel of the same name about smuggling – announced the decision after the East Cornwall Hunt invited the Beaufort Hunt to meet there on Saturday, a move the pub called “extremely ill-advised”.