Old Road Tavern, Chippenhamback to pub details please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
Multi roomed boozer with a nice beer garden out the back and a pool table. A youngish but not chav like range of customers on our visit. Good beer range, lots to recommend about this place 7 and three quarters out of 10!
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Great pub, a couple of minutes walk from Chippenham railway station (upside), five beers on including Otter, Summer Lightening and a guest. Multi roomed interior, friendly locals, newspapers available and a great beer garden out the back, my favourite in the town.
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I moved away from Chippenham a year or so ago and if my heart hurt more for this bar, it'd be because of a medical complaint.
it's so good, it's just so good, staff are friendly and knowledgeable, beer is tastey, snack selection is reasonable, i've never eaten there, but you don't need to eat when your having as good a time as i have had.
Folk Festival
The best time to go to the Old Road, Oldy, The Tav, Tavvles, Oldleberry
Nothing makes a good quality locally brewed ale better than the satisfaction of fighting through a ten deep crowd of blacked-up, morris dancing, mandolin playing, mental old, hippies all trying to get exactly the same thing as you
has recently developed a chav problem, they look about 12. if not chav, squaddy, but not good squaddy, violent child squaddy.
Busy friday night, local crazy kicking up a fuss? any of the barmen or bargirls will sort it out faster than you could say "oh did you see that bargirl pick up that overweight man and hurl him over the wall between the beer garden and threshers?"
Beer garden. What so many bars lack, without even noticing most of the time. well attended by staff, even at busy periods glasses are collected.
boom
so good
pity wetherspoons opened a bar in the cess pit of a town centre. immediately 3 smaller pubs closed. which has hopefully bolstered the old road's custom.
long live the oldy, may she misguide the youth and laugh about it to the oldth for many years to come
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Great pub. Good real ale selection for a pub of it's size. Friendly locals and staff. As a jet lagged Aussie was made to feel very welcome.
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Excellent back street local 200yards from Chippenham station, great place to wait for the train. 5 real ales on, Cornish Coaster, London Pride, two others I can't remember and Summer Lightning, which was my choice.
Busy enough on a Monday afternoon with several locals at the bar. It appears to be the headquarters of the Chippenham folk festival and morris dancers judging by the photos on the wall.
Well worth a visit if the train is late
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Been in and out over the years,basic but good boozer. Adnams Explorer last week was good and reasonably priced.
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A multi roomed old pub up the hill from the station. There is a single large room with a u-shaped bar counter plus a pool room and a strange room which looks like two large windows have been removed between there and the bar. There is also a pleasant garden cum smoking area. Five pumps with changing beers from regional and micro brewers, Fullers, Cottage, Rucking Mole, Hopback and Otter on my visit, all very well kept justifying the Good Beer Guide entry and high BITE rating. Plain victorian style decoration, a bit dowdy but clean and tidy, an interesting mixed bunch of regulars, and friendly knowledgable staff. The usual TVs, the pool room already mentioned plus a dart board and games machines complete the facilities available.
anonymous - 8 Jun 2009 16:03 |
This is my favourite pub in the whole world. I used to drink here regularly when i lived in Chippenham and it is the only pub i will return to when i go home to visit family or friends.
It has a good range of beers and ciders that are well kept. Friendly and interesting bar staff and some real local characters.
The food is genuine pub grub, nothing fancy, but ridiculously cheap. A good little pool room and a fantastic beer garden. It also has a barn which is hired out for parties or band practices. I've heard everything from jazz and soul, though folk music to pounding drum 'n' bass emanating from it.
It has a great mixed crowd, with folkies, morris dancers and chin stoking intellectuals in the lounge and locals and a mix of younger rock kids and people who just want a great place to drink in the bar.
My one complaint would be that sometimes it seems very young in there, but for god's sake, that was me when i was 18 so i don't have a leg to stand on.
Overall a must if you want to escape the bland corporate pubs that have spread across the land and find somewhere with real people and real beer!
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Top pub. Always a friendly welcome from 'Del Boy' behind the bar, ready and waiting to serve you with your regular pints of Stowford Press (and Scampi Fries). In the lounge you can always engage in conversation with 'Masher' - the local gangster!
The pub has more than its fair share of locals, with Masher, Martin Shott with his regular curry and chips, the fat, single mother parents in the back room with their (I assume its theirs) kids suckling off their breasts whilst they enjoy a nice pint of alcohol-free Tenants. In the corner on Friday lunchtimes (Friday club) sit two young lovlies with their slave.
"CHIPS!!!!- COOKED CHIPS!!!!!" served are second to none. We all await the return of cheese on toast to the menu.
Should be nominated for pub of the year award.
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A real gem. The pub used by Chippenham Morris Men. The lounge, on one side, is inhabited by lots of folk music fanatics, drop-out intellectuals, and Guardian readers. The bar, on the other side, is full of local characters (including a genial giant called 'Masher'). Good selection of regularly changing real ales. Live folk session on Sunday evenings. It's very hard to leave.
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