Fowlmere Road
Newton
CB22 7PG
01223 870436
The list on the wall shows that this classic country pub has had only 18 landlords since 1729. The current licensees, the Short family, took over the pub in 1962 and very little has changed since then. The bar has a quarry tiled floor an ancient curved, high-backed settle and an upright piano.
Another sign on the wall is the soup of the day chart which lists six soups from ‘greenish’ through ‘yellowish brown’ and ‘medium brown’ to ‘dark brown’. Ale is straight from the cask and the pub is one of ‘The Famous Five’ that has been in every edition of the Good Beer Guide since it started in 1974. Adnams Bitter is always on along with two changing beers.
King George V and the his cousin Kaiser Wilhelm apparently stopped here for refreshments in the early 1900s, and the Shah of Iran played darts here in the 1960s. The queen on the pub sign is, unusually, Ann of Cleves.
