Community Hub: Rhondda pub focuses on sustainability with new village store and café to help support local community. The Pentre Comrades Club in Pentre, Rhondda, is supporting people in its local community by opening a sustainability-focused village store and community café to provide important local…
Community café: Hot food provision supports local people in Kent village The George stands at the centre of the village of Bethersden in Kent. It has been a drinking establishment since the 17th Century, becoming a licensed pub in 1841. For decades it was…
Northumberland pub, the Fishers Arms has been at the heart of the fishing village of Horncliffe, since 1760. Surrounded by beautiful countryside Horncliffe is the most northerly village in England. It is built on the cliffs above the banks of the River Tweed and…
Community Hub: Inaugural Welsh project from Pub is The Hub with backing of The Royal Countryside Fund helps support the wellbeing of locals. The Ty’n Llan in Llandwrog, Wales, was the first pub to be supported as part of a two-year programme for Wales from…
The White Swan sits on Gressenhall Green and is the last remaining pub in this rural village just outside East Dereham, Norfolk. The pub closed in 2018 and following an unsuccessful change of use application, remained in a state of disrepair. In 2020, the villagers…
The Blue Bell is situated in the rural village of Stoke Ferry and closed in March 2018, with the previous owners applying for ‘Change of Use’ for residential development. The Blue Bell was the only pub in the village and the application for change was…
The Marquis of Granby is owned by wife and husband team Sara Barton and Sean McArdle, who also run the Brewster’s Brewery at Grantham. Sara set up the Brewster’s Brewery in 1998 and was one of the tiny band of female pioneers working in the…
The family-run Queen public house is located in the small rural village of Brandeston near Woodbridge, in Suffolk. When the first Covid-19 lockdown started in March 2020 publican Caroline Aitchison, her daughter Harriett and son Alexander who run the pub together, set about adapting the…
The Locks Inn is an iconic pub situated on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, in a remote part of the Waveney Valley. The pub had been closed for two years when it came up for auction during the Covid-19 pandemic It was purchased on 4 November 2020…
Scamblesby is a small village in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated 6 miles (10 km) south-west from Louth, on the A153 road, and within the Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Situated in the heart of the Lincolnshire Wolds, the Viking Way runs through the village…
BACKGROUND The Pear & Olive is located in the small village of Hildersham in Cambridgeshire. Hildersham has a population of just 150, and no amenities other than the pub. The pub, previously known as The Pear Tree, had been closed for five years and the…
Maidwell is a village in Northamptonshire with over 300 inhabitants. The A508 road runs through its western end and the village is about halfway between the market town of Market Harborough, Leicestershire, and the county town of Northampton which is about 7 miles south. There has been a pub on the site…
Background The Red Lion is the only pub in the rural Norfolk village of Needham, situated 10 miles from Diss with a population of just over 300 people. Licensees Sue and Joe Massey with their son Michael have been the hosts for the last eleven…
