The Tolland Inn, in the town of Tolland midway between Hartford and Sturbridge, is immersed in history and rich in ambience. It is rated Three Diamonds by AAA and Three Stars by Mobil. The Tolland Inn also received the 2007 Yankee Magazine Editor's Choice award.

Travelers have found shelter in Tolland for most of its 285 years. Public houses, taverns, inns, and hotels, as many as three at one time, have stood on the Green, offering accommodations from the pure and simple to country New England's own version of "high class." This tradition lapsed in 1959 with the sale of the only remaining Inn, the Steele House. The new owners made their home in the huge white house and lived in grand style into the 1980's.

In 1985, the Beechings purchased the Steele House, restored it as a Bed and Breakfast Inn and renamed it the Tolland Inn. They are pleased to resume a tradition of the past, and once more welcome travelers through and to the town of Tolland. Innkeeper Stephen Beeching is a designer and builder of custom fine furniture. His workshop is at the Inn and his pieces are throughout The Tolland Inn.

The Tolland Inn accommodates seven guest rooms, each with private bath. There are three suites available. Two suites offer sitting rooms with fireplace and hot tubs; the other is equipped with a sitting room and bedroom fireplace. For those extra-special occasions, you can luxuriate in the room with a cozy fireplace and a relaxing hot tub. A full breakfast is served daily.

Tolland is set in the rolling hills of eastern Connecticut, a rural area where many of the pleasures of the region derive from picking strawberries in June, to the taste of apple pie at an autumn town fair. The main campus of the University of Connecticut (UCONN) is just seven miles away. The area abounds with antique shops, and every weekend brings it's share of shows and auctions.

Three times each summer, in May, July and September, the town of Brimfield is occupied by thousands of dealers staging one of the largest flea markets in the nation. Old Sturbridge Village, where one can relive a day in the early 19th century, is just 25 minutes away. And Hartford, with some of the best in 20th-century dining, shopping and culture, is about the same distance in the opposite direction. There you'll find the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Mark Twain House.

For a nibble of interesting history, a taste of luxury and a mouthful of sweet comfort, come to the Tolland Inn -- a place guaranteed to satisfy.