Visiting Mum and Keith and we took a short trip to Tewkesbury Tuesday 21st October 2025, once again the recent rating from Chris prompting my visit.

This is super easy to find and in all likelihood the most centrally located of all the Tewkesbury pubs. It's near the central mini roundabout that leads up to the motorway, down to the Abbey then Gloucester and in the other direction to Worcester/Upton/ Ledbury. It's one of many very historic buildings in Tewkesbury and another black and white gem. I cannot believe that I've never been here before, I worked around here a lot many, many years ago and our company was based in nearby Brendon and then at the industrial estate just over the Motorway so was very familiar with the town but this has eluded me.

Inside it's lovely, it's narrow, cosy and a multi roomed layout, with the bar immediately on the left on entering and additional rooms and toilets further back. The beers were mostly local but offering a nice range of styles and abvs, all cask gravity, mostly pins and with cooling blankets. I settled for a half of Tewkesbury Pale Ale which was wonderfully bitter, crisp and hoppy, my first from them and thoroughly enjoyed it.

The barman was friendly enough and pleasant and clearly knew his stuff. We got chatting to a local who was telling us a little about the place, layout, history and the beer offerings. I agree with Chris, if I lived local, this would probably be my local, it ticks all the right boxes. Really glad we dropped in here and pleased that Chris had rated it recently.