The Square
Corfe Castle
BH20 5EZ
01929 480205
The Greyhound claims to be the most photographed pub in the country, and I can well believe it it, with its classic location below Corfe Castle. Its main focus is food, complemented by a good range of local ales and ciders.
There is a stone flagged interior and the beer garden at the back has a great view of the castle. It was built in the the 1600s with colour washed Purbeck stone, though alterations in the 1700s explain the 1733 date stone on the porch. The pub was a coaching inn in the 18th and early 19th centuries and the porch was built so that coach passengers could step straight into the inn.
Much of the 1978 TV series The Mayor of Casterbridge based on the Thomas Hardy novel was filmed outside the pub.
