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Good beer + B&B - Stoke-on-Trent

A group of us are doing a canal trip from Stoke next month, and to (a) avoid the Saturday traffic and (b) do the food shopping for the trip as late as possible, my husband and I are going up to Stoke to stay for the Friday night. Now, we could just stay in a Travel Lodge etc but the idea has come to us that it might be better to find a decent pub which does B&B at a reasonable rate which also sells interesting real ale since he is a great fan. By decent I mean beer preferably from the micros and definitely NOT a Pubco. Any helpful suggestions will be gratefully received. I used to live in Hednesford and know the south of Staffs quite well, but my visits to the north of the county were infrequent, and usually were when I was calling for Barn Dances, so I didn't actually visit any pubs, decent or otherwise.

TIA Faith

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Faith Myers
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There are lots of downmarket B&Bs in the Potteries so you can take your choice. They don't vary that much. Very few pubs do B&B, and the ones that do tend to be Seamus O'Bodger places. If you can push the boat out a bit (as they say) you could stay in the George Hotel in Burslem, not far from the canal and with lots of character and history. Burslem is a good town for a crawl anyway with the superb Bull's Head (Titanic brewery tap) and at least 5 decent other pubs. I can't think of any really awful pubs there, apart from maybe Smith's Tavern. It's also got several good Indian restaurants including the Kismet, which is one of Stoke's longest established Indians (1962?).

Do not under any circumstances attempt to drink in Hanley or Newcastle at weekends. There are some reasonable pubs in these places, but it's just not worth the grief.

There is a Kwik Save actually in Burslem, and a big Morrisons only a mile or so away on Festival Park.

HTH, Paul

-- Paul Sherwin Consulting

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Paul Sherwin

Lloyd's Tavern. I was confusing it with another (better) pub in Ashbourne.

Paul

-- Paul Sherwin Consulting

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Paul Sherwin

If you dont mind being half an hour out of stoke, there is an excellent pub called the Bhurtpore Inn

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in aston near Wrenbury south of Natwich. This does masses of ale, excellent food and has a B&B annex I believe.

There is also the delightful Hollybush on the Cauldon Canal with again with good beer, food and accomodation. Its just south of Leek.

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Both in GBG and personally recommended for ambience, beer and food though I've not tried the accomodation in either case.

rob

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rob thirlby

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The Holly Bush on the Caldon Canal is adjacent to the adjaduct that carries the Leek branch over the mail line of the Caldon.

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Brett...

Good shout Brett.

We stopped there twice last week on our trip up the Caldon and back, did not use the B&B as we were on the boat. Excellent beer, good food at a reasonable price, friendly service and plenty of mooring. We moored just after the pub on the way out and up on the aquaduct a few days later after going to Leek and back.

Access from the Leek arm is really easy down the steps.

Clive

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CP

But, the traffic can be bad getting into the Potteries from Leek at peak times. Leek New Road is infested with speed limits and slow drivers at the best of times, and always seems a longer journey than it actually is.

HTH, Paul

-- Paul Sherwin Consulting

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