White Hart (JDW)

Wetherspoon pub on two floors very close to the train station. It’s very well decorated in a traditional pub style, but apt given the building it is in has historically been a pub. Ales are available on both bars top and bottom and there is a terrace area outside the top bar, but given this pub is on a hill the terrace is actually at street level. Weatherman John Kettley has his picture hanging on the wall at the top of the top stairs. Can get busy.

The White Hart has always been a pub as far as I can remember. Now it’s a Wetherspoon’s but it’s still retained the character of a traditional pub. It’s comfortable and quite cosy, with a roaring fire in winter, and the beer was in good condition. There are 10 hand pumps and a good selection of beers in the main bar. It’s built on the side of the hill so the patio is upstairs alongside an upstairs room and bar which has another 5 hand pumps. The posters around the walls celebrate local history and heroes, including John Douglas Cockcroft who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics for splitting the atom. (Visited 26 December 2012).