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Locals pub with a bit of a quirky feel. There are 2 bars - the larger one had a musician playing on our Sunday evening visit. The smaller one to the left was much more cosy with only one other customer. You can still get access to the end of the bar here and there is plenty of bric-a-brac to admire. Being a Fullers pub, the beer range was limited to just London Pride & Gales HSB. Nice pub though.
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A very pleasant little pub with alot of original features and loads of curiosities to look at. Enjoyed a pint of Fullers Black Cab stout and Bengal Lancer IPA. I didn't try the food as we moved on to Arundel, but my friend assures me it is good. I will be visiting again.
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This pub is definitely worth a visit, just to take a look around the fixtures and fittings. It has retained many interesting features and I could have spent all afternoon looking over the photo's and other bits and bobs. Nice old bar serving good ale with nice service. Food took a while but was nice apart from some awful pickled cabbage thing that needn't have been on the plate.
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Be careful what you wish for: This pub has changed hands. The beer and decor are still good and the food has got more expensive and is now good, but the service time is awful. Half an hour for a sandwich.
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My Wife and i went in for a lunchtime drink and something to eat. This is a truly traditional pub with huge amounts of pictures and ornaments etc. I was rather disappointed with the beer. I ordered a pint of Sea Farers which i had to send back as it tasted of vinegar. I then ordered a pint of HSB which wasn't much better. The food is incredibly cheap though. We ordered a stilton ploughmans which was �2.75. This actually turned out a to be a bread roll with a lump of cheese! This pub has had higher standards in the past but this was a disappointing visit.
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What a cracking little place this is. Just how a pub from two hundred years ago would look. Beer straight from the barrel in the back room. Slight grumble about the food. Very cheap and unfortunately it showed. Up the prices and the quality a bit.
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Awful place. Yes it is full of oldy worldly item - packed full actually and all covered in thick dust and cobwebs.
If you want a drink then yes, it is fine but I would not recommend the food at all!
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OK this is the first time I am ever going to rate a poub 10/10.
This weekend was my 2nd visit to this pub and I must say everything was perfect. The pub its self is lovely very old style. There are old things everywhere you can just look around and evjoy looking at everything. The staff are very friendly especially the lady behind the bar. They do nice food and the ale is out the barrell. They even have some scotch for me : -) I asked for water with my scotch and wondered where it was and it was in a huge old corked bottle she had put on the bar. That was just amazing rather than getting a glass of water.
There was a resident dog and cat wandering around. Some locals (i think they were) and they started playing some sea shanty type music with squeeze boxes and they all sang alone, it was lovely.
I honestly have never found a pub better than this.
Perfect.
NeilA - 21 Sep 2010 21:45 |
If "equitablyaboveboard" thinks the Elmer and Bader in Tangmere is better than either here the 4 chestnuts or the gribble then he must be having a giraffe. People like this should be banned from this site.
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Unfortunately, it's because of people like "equitablyaboveboard", who make such offensive and erroneous comments, that we have lost most of England's real local pubs and have to endure artificial, plastic "olde worlde" establishments, which are occasionally utilised by uninteresting, namby pamby, limp wristed, accountants, solicitors, architects and the like! Real people still live in our world and, in my over 40 years experience of the Murrell, it is a delight to be welcomed into a real pub with a mix of real people, all of whom intermingle and enjoy one anothers company, regardless of education, wealth or background! If you don't put on "airs and graces", enjoy conversation, want to meet and talk to interesting people, many of whom may still work in traditional country occupations, and enjoy original English country pubs filled with strange, dusty old artifacts (and some dusty old locals!), then the Murrell is for you. If you are a "Hooray Henry" who wants a sterilised, unreal, architects visualisation of what a bar should be, filled with other faceless people then maybe you should give it a wide berth!
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pikky dive avoid like plague
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Good beer from the barrel, friendly staff and a really nice pub inside. There were 4 ales if I remember. Nice old furniture and pictures all over the wall.
NeilA - 27 Sep 2009 20:14 |
A proper two bar local (though if I remember rightly on my previous visit there was a third 'off sales' section dividing bar & snug). The beer is okay (as opposed to good or exceptional) and it's pretty handy for the station. It does have that proper pub feel to it though which is so lacking in many of the 'done up' establishments and mock Irish bars that adorn our country these days.
anonymous - 22 Aug 2009 19:46 |
Although a tied house, this has escaped the rigours of brewery-inspired 'modernisation' and retains much charm. Long may it continue.
Beer good, and the hock (the pig part, not the wine) very tender indeed. The lady who served me explained that she felt it best to serve only a few dishes which could be done well, rather than an extensive list of near-misses. I agree entirely, and wish other places would adopt such a sensible approach to pub food.
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Fabulous - even if just for earwigging the locals! Beer not as varied the nightt we went but improved. Not tried food and no sign of anyone eating
We'll be back
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A brilliant tradional pub located just round the corner from barnham train station & the bus pick up for fontwell racecourse.A good selection of fullers beer & hearty homemade food.The pub is full of memorabilia & bric a brac & the beer garden is a sun trap.
anonymous - 8 May 2009 15:19 |
The true British pub, and even better now it is non smoking.. Quaint, old fashioned, real fires, low beams, great Fullers cask beers/ales and try the bacon hock and crusty bread or a curry. Not a large menu but great value meals. Large pub garden for children to play in and covered seating under a grape vine beside pub. Worth a visit just to examine all he curios hanging on the walls and beams.
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What a fantastic village pub,every-thing is first rate,this is a gem in the world of chain pubs 10/10
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Settled myself here while the other half and her relatives went to the auction that takes place in one of the outbuildings. I loved it !
Great beer, interesting bric a brac and a wonderful health and safety hazard in the way of the ring-the bull. They even brought out plates of free food, which is always fine by me ( though can someone explain by a pile of cheese, meat, etc. was topped by a chocolate eclair ).
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This pub is a jewel, freindly, old worldly, full of charm and character, and to cap it all has good beer to boot
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A gem - 2 bar boozer with more old nik-naks on display than David Dickenson could wave a stick at.
Small but well-served range of Fuller's ales, including Butcombe on as a guest.
As mentioned previously, no music, no machines but ring-the-bull (fiendishly hard!), darts, cribbage, proper open fires and wooden floors.
Just what a proper old eccentric English pub should be. Wonderful.
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A proper pub.
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I have been to this pub on a few occasions and have to say it's one of my fav's. I am a cat lover and the cat there is just adorable! Really friendly. Old fashioned and quaint, i believe it has been in the same hands since 1964..not many pubs now can boast that accolade! If you are looking for a pub the way they use to be, then you won't go far wrong here, well worth a visit.
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Very old-fashoioned pub with interesting decor. Currently
seving Fuller's.
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A real find. Gem of a pub. Well worth a visit
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Great locally brewed beer and apparently the food is basic but good. However the real attraction is the surroudings and the people! Went into the public bar first and it seemed very "local", however the saloon bar is much more lively and the people were very friendly.
Hold live music/morris dancing in the summer as well as occassional auctions.
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Probably the only real pub left in the South of England. Loads of local memorabilia, no music, no machines but ring-the-bull, darts, cribbage, proper open fires, wooden floors, basic but cheap and wholesome grub - bacon hocks to die for! Use the public bar for a good wind up session. The landlord is about 90 but very knowledgable on local history and amateur gentry, his "farmgirl" wife is 70'ish and doesn't put up with any mucking about. A wonderful pub - everyone should go there at least once!!
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An old pub, around the corner from the train station. Serves a fairly decent pint of HSB and Butser, but it has been a little flat at times.
Limited pub food, but decent portions - this ain't no gastropub.
Interesting 'decor' - the collected ephemera of the landlord's 30 + years there. The pub also runs public auctions from time to time.
Music on a Thursday night is popular with locals, but disctinctly amateur - non the less fun for all that.
A decent village boozer, although don't go out of your way.
Andy - 16 Jun 2005 15:05 |
