The Corbet Arms pub in Uffington with its riverside beer garden
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The Corbet Arms pub in Uffington with its riverside beer garden
Image: © Jeremy Bolwell Taken: 6 Sep 2020
It used to be a bowling green, so I am told, but apparently the pub objected to the retired and elderly bowlers bringing their own sandwiches to bowls matches and practices and this rankled into the pub banning the bowlers from doing so. The bowlers left as the relationship broke down. The pub then converted the bowling green into these impressive facilities, possibly the largest riverside beer garden in the county. Bit of a shame if true. The pub wasn't the friendliest I must say. I got the sort of welcome from the bar man that I would have expected if I had walked into his living room. A tad surprised initially, then a tad interrogatory, then a tad offish and lastly a tad dismissive. Maybe that comes from the top?
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Image Location
Latitude
52.719064
Longitude
-2.699917