Historic Pubs? Worth a Visit?

[vournikas]

I love a good old fashioned boozer, me. Whether it's no frills and old fashioned serving just good beer and snacks (like my local), but preferably no frills, with interesting history, timelessly preserved inside and out, and serving good beer and snacks.

Obviously, PH has good food / pub wikis but they are a bit food orientated, and surely (?) we should celebrate those pubs that - rightly or wrongly - provide a clear link to our beery past; away from gourmet burgers, hand-cut chips, chicken liver parfaits, and pan-fried sea bass with a samphire & potato rosti etc etc.

There's a couple of trad boozers near me, and others I've visited occasionally :

The Skirrid at Llanfihangel

The Fleece at Bretforton

The Anchor at High Offley

The All Nations in Telford

Other honourable mentions to The Blue Anchor Inn (one in Helston, the other in East Aberthaw), The Royal Oak in Cardington, The George & Dragon in Much Wenlock, and The Prince of Wales in Kenfig Hill.

More suggestions welcome!

[JQ]

http://www.thedroversinn.co.uk/index.php?option=co...

Drovers Inn, Loch Lomond - 300 years old and I don't think it's every been decorated, absolutely bags of character.

[Yamahadivvyrider]

The bucket of blood in Hayley cornwall

[lamboman100]

There are a couple of pubs in Cambridgeshire (Ferryboat) and Hertfordshire (Fighting Cocks) that claim to trace their roots back to the 6th and 8th centuries.

The Jerusalem pub, in Nottinghamshire, claims to have roots back to the 12th century, and is one of the more famous ones:

http://drinkedin.net/blog/248-britain-s-five-oldes...

[vournikas]

I remember this one from Hugh Fearnley's first series of 'Escape to River Cottage', and its associated nettle eating contests :

http://www.bottle-inn.net/

That's what I'm on about; an old historic pub that serves beer and selected snacks (in this case, nettles)

[anonymous-user]

One from London (Or a little London-based Cambidgshire enclave if you believe the story)...

http://yeoldemitreholborn.co.uk/

[jet_noise]

Dear v,

the Bridge, Topsham

Not the most live webpage as they use bookface which is regularly updated.
Don't worry about this use of new fangled tech, the pub is unspoilt and has been run by the same family for eons. Beer is ordered from an ever changing menu at a hatch and the alekeep pulls your pint from casks in a back room.

At least in my top three,

regards,
Jet

[Vocal Minority]

The Eagle in Cambridge is worth a visit - it is just opposite the entrance to Kings College.

http://gkpubs.co.uk/pubs-in-cambridge/eagle-pub/

OK, OK it is a green king pub, but the beer/fayre/service is not its redeeming feature.


The two notable bits are:

1: The little plaque on the wall at the spot (over one of the tables) where Crick and Watson announced the discovery of DNA.

2: The RAF bar at the back, with the ceiling grafitted by means of candle or lighter by airmen of both RAF and USAF in the second war, plus snippets of information on which bits were done by who, and what they refer to. Absolutely spellbinding place. Even SWMBO got into history there!

[ehonda]

Another London pub:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ye_Olde_Cheshire_Chee...

[IanCress]

The Black Bull in Otley, West Yorkshire. At least 400 years old, which explains why it's so easy to bang your head on the wooden beams.

http://www.otleypubclub.co.uk/otley-pubs-present/t...

I love an old pub, so much more character than a modern bar.

[Burrow01]

Prince of Wales in Foxfield Cumbria

Its a 70's pub pickled in aspic (with a web site from the '90s apparently) but brews its own beers, and does great trad pub food - home made pasties etc

http://www.princeofwalesfoxfield.co.uk/pub.htm

[hacksaw]

A few of my favourites from York

Guy Fawkes inn, birth place of Guy Fawkes in 1570. http://www.gfyork.com/about/

House of trembling madness, dates to 1180. http://www.tremblingmadness.co.uk

The Golden Fleece http://www.thegoldenfleeceyork.co.uk

[vournikas]

Burrow01 said:

Prince of Wales in Foxfield Cumbria

Its a 70's pub pickled in aspic (with a web site from the '90s apparently) but brews its own beers, and does great trad pub food - home made pasties etc

http://www.princeofwalesfoxfield.co.uk/pub.htm

That's pretty much the same as our favoured local!

[Burrow01]

vournikas said:

Burrow01 said:

Prince of Wales in Foxfield Cumbria

Its a 70's pub pickled in aspic (with a web site from the '90s apparently) but brews its own beers, and does great trad pub food - home made pasties etc

http://www.princeofwalesfoxfield.co.uk/pub.htm

That's pretty much the same as our favoured local!

Its pretty famous locally, has a branch line train station directly outside and people come in from all over and the landlord lets them know when the last train is 10 mins away and the pub empties :-)

The landlord also coordinates a local beer festival where virtually all the pubs within a 5 mile radius run a beer festival over the weekend. The Prince of Wales had 3 coaches parked outside on the day that I went

[PurpleMeanie]

The Harp in Covent Garden.

Now sold to Fullers so go before the inevitable rot sets in. Although they *seem* to be letting it be for the moment.