Standing proudly on an old coaching road, with its sage green and whitewashed façade, The Horse & Groom is a 19th-century inn, surrounded by rolling arable fields. Located on the edge of the pretty village of Writtle, it’s just two miles from bustling Chelmsford, and close to the rural Essex villages of Chignal St James and Broomfield, as well as the historic Hylands Park House and Estate. In the early 1900s, Writtle was described as “one of the loveliest villages…