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The Swan, Little Totham

Three quarters of the way through a 50mile cycle ride, I stopped off at The Swan, Little Totham. It was a gloriously warm day, and their pub garden at the front of the pub was particularly inviting.

The Three Horseshoes, Duton Hill

On the way back from Audley End today we popped into The Three Horseshoes on Duton Hill, who were holding their regular late Spring Bank Holiday beer festival.

Three Essex Beer Festivals in three hours

First up on our three-leg beerfestcrawl this afternoon was The Wheatsheaf in Hatfield Peverel, a Greene King pub and ‘a traditional family restaurant’ just a few minutes drive away from The Museum of Power. Perversely, after two months of almost unbroken sunshine and warm weather, it was grey, cloudy and quite windy when we turned [...]

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Five Bells – Beer Fest and Dinner.

We’ve been to the Five Bells at Colne Engaine a couple of times in the last year – once for their winter beer festival (reviewed here), and our first visit saw us enthuse about their sharing platter we had at lunchtime (reviewed here). We decided to celebrate a birthday by popping over to the Five [...]

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Cycle Route : Felsted and Pleshey

Most of my cycle routes to date have been circular ones from Colchester, based on the very simple logic that I didn’t have a cycle rack for the car, and I’ve only had a single one-way ride (Chelmsford to Colchester, having got the train to Chelmsford). That changed at the weekend, after the purchase of [...]

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The Victory at Mersea

We had lunch today at The Victory, a pub on the Coast Road in West Mersea. It's a big pub, nicely presented inside, with a focus around it's recent re-branding around The Victory battleship, and the pub's strapline 'a great place to sink a few'.

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The Swan at Great Easton

As we were heading over to visit the Forgotten Gardens of Easton Lodge, we decided to pop in to The Swan at Great Easton for Sunday lunch, and loved the pub and loved the grub. The pub is an old one, with a public bar on one side of the front entrance, and a traditional [...]

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The Compasses, Great Totham

We must have driven past The Compasses at Great Totham a hundred times or more over the years. It's on the B1022, halfway between Tiptree and Maldon. In recent years it's been in the hands of the Pubmaster chain, which, with all due respect to Pubmaster, generally means a pub with average beer and average food. At best. However, in recent months blackboards outside the pub have been proclaiming 'Six Real Ales!'.

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The White Horse Inn, Ridgewell – Dark Ale beer festival

The Dark Ale beer festival at the White Horse Inn in Ridgewell, just north of Halstead, looked like it might slip by without my attendance, but I managed a quick half hour and two cheeky halves today. The pub is in the Good Beer Guide, and is one of the few to always have a [...]

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The Barge Inn, Battlesbridge

We thought we’d drop into Battlesbridge today for a quick look around, as it wasn’t somewhere we’d been to before. We ended up spending a lot more time there than planned, and had a great, if light, lunch at The Barge Inn. The Barge Inn is a lovely old pub, very nicely presented inside. Whilst [...]

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The Swan, Little Totham

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The Three Horseshoes, Duton Hill

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Three Essex Beer Festivals in three hours

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Five Bells – Beer Fest and Dinner.

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Cycle Route : Felsted and Pleshey

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The Victory at Mersea

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The Swan at Great Easton

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The Compasses, Great Totham

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The White Horse Inn, Ridgewell – Dark Ale beer festival

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The Barge Inn, Battlesbridge

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