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This was a good stopping-off point when visiting Dorking from the Crawley direction. They did a good pub lunch and it will be a shame if it's now closed for good.
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yes, beerter...that's what the last poster said!
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Tick...Tock...Tick...Tock...Booooom!
Time has run out for the once glorious Plough at Blackbrook.
Definately closed & for sale when I wandered past the other day.
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A sign outside this closed pub says 'freehold for sale'
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Jeremy - this is the best news I have heard in ages. The Plough was reknowned as selling the best beer in the King and Barnes estate, but went rapidly downhill when those Badger Bast***s took it over. As Goosegog states, good quality real ale sells very well in this area (the previously unloved Fox Revived at nearby Norwood Hill is testament to this).
Please let us know more as soon as you can. Best of luck.
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Just to let everyone know..... We HOPE to change all this in the future... We are trying to get the Pub open again with NICE Managemant(!) and some NICE beer!! Will keep you updated...
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So agree Goosegog and anotherpintplease, this pub was once great but the rude manager's & staff made this a not a nice pub to visit. The beer was really horrible and the bar staff were more interested in playing bar games than serving us.
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I'm not sure why but this pub has closed again. Please, if it's because it's not doing well and you're a potential new owner, please sell some decent, exciting real ales and the pub will fare much better. Check out the nearby Royal Oak at Rusper, Surrey Oaks, Three Horseshoes at Sidlow and choose your beer along the lines of these places!! This tempting little pub will continue to fail if it continues to sell dreadful Badger beer
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closed again.
If it ever re-opens, please serve some decent beer as we do not like the putrid badger rubbish
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Is this serving non-Badger beer yet?
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Great beer but such a horrible pub to go to. Glad it's had a refurb cos it needed it so badly and that includes the management
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Oh dear, still a Badger pub. I'm sorry, but it's like a pub with no beer.
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Now extensively redecorated and reopened on Saturday 21st March 2009. A nice cosy pub with two distinct halves. Still owned by Hall & Woodhouse so unfortunately still Badger beers but I'm told the landlady intends to buy the pub and venture into better beers. Food still in its early days and menu limited at the moment but set to expand. Worth keeping an eye on this place. Real log fire
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Currently under renovation. The chap I spoke to said it was being purchased from the brewery and would be independently owned. Potential good pub here!
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Now closed.
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The Badger great, the place is small and cosy, portions big.
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Tanglefoot, First Gold and Hall & Woodhouse Sussex, latter was good quality. Pub is in the middle of nowhere, visited at the end of a walk. From the main door there is a larger room to the left and to the right there is a small bar with restaurant tables set out further down some steps. Large beer garden out back.
Was pretty much empty when I got there just before 6pm, a few more came in later. Sounded like it had been busy at lunchtime.
Ok but you have to drive to it.
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Well worth a look. Pleasantly quirky and friendly. Not keen on Badger beers myself but in good condition. Smokers' tent.
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Haven't been for while, but only through lack of opportunity. This is a cracking little country pub, with plenty of genuine atmosphere and friendliness, in an all-too-rare 2-bar interior. The Hall & Woodhouse ales are always well-conditioned, and provide a worthy accompaniment, along with a well-balanced wine list, the range of home-cooked foods, which are equally excellent. A really cosy experience, especially on a cold and wet Autumn/Winter day, and well worth digging out.
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home from home, I love this pub, fond memories, Robin is excellent, just fed up enough to be marvellously witty and sharp, beer is good, wine list always amusing, pretty garden, good food and dog welcome in public bar, long live the Plough!
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More of a restaurant than a pub, but it has an excellent old fashioned atmosphere. Certainly not a place for letting your hair down, but a good for a quiet civilised evening.
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Fursty Ferret Ale is excellent. Gentle beer garden out the back.
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