Rose and Crown, Beckley. Anyone know it?

goldstone · Mar 26, 2015

Walking the Sussex Border Path with a group of pals and the next section puts us at Beckley around lunch time on a Sunday. The Rose and Crown is the only pub in the village, but has no website and can find no reviews. Phoned the pub and spoke to the landlord, but in truth not overly impressed.

Anyone know the place? Would appreciate any comments.

goldstone · Mar 26, 2015

I guess no one does. Have decided to find an alternative lunch stop.

Arthur · Mar 26, 2015

Here is a crazy idea......why don't you go in it and find out for yourself?

If it's shit find another pub!

atfc village · Mar 26, 2015

Gets good reviews in The Good Pub guide ,but they are a year old .5 ales on .

Pinkie Brown · Mar 26, 2015

Arthur said:
Here is a crazy idea......why don't you go in it and find out for yourself?

If it's shit find another pub!

Yes, but if you have been hiking for hours and the place is naff, do you really want to hike for several miles when hungry and thirsty? Not like being in town where you can probably find somewhere nearby. Ideally, better to have a heads up.

I don't know the place and nobody has ever rated it on trip advisor. It could be a hidden gem or it could be full of league of gentleman type and local yokels who look at you as though you are martians when you walk through the door. In that little enclave of East Sussex, it wouldn't surprise me if it were the latter. Sorry I can't really help much.

Arthur · Mar 27, 2015

Pinkie Brown said:
Yes, but if you have been hiking for hours and the place is naff, do you really want to hike for several miles when hungry and thirsty? Not like being in town where you can probably find somewhere nearby. Ideally, better to have a heads up.

I don't know the place and nobody has ever rated it on trip advisor. It could be a hidden gem or it could be full of league of gentleman type and local yokels who look at you as though you are martians when you walk through the door. In that little enclave of East Sussex, it wouldn't surprise me if it were the latter. Sorry I can't really help much.

I understand that however what is a good pub?? What you may think is a great pub I may think is a shitpit.

And what did people do before the internet ever existed?

goldstone · Mar 27, 2015

Arthur said:
Here is a crazy idea......why don't you go in it and find out for yourself?

If it's shit find another pub!

Thanks for your helpful answer, Arthur. Now why didn't I think of that? Might have been the fact I live 45 miles away and I thought it might just be easier to find out whether any of the good folks on NSC knew the place. However that clearly does not sit well with you, for which I humbly seek your forgiveness.

Arthur · Mar 27, 2015

goldstone said:
Thanks for your helpful answer, Arthur.

You are more than welcome!

goldstone said:
Now why didn't I think of that?

No idea buddy??

goldstone said:
Might have been the fact I live 45 miles away and I thought it might just be easier to find out whether any of the good folks on NSC knew the place.

You could live 450 miles away and it wouldn't matter. It would appear no one knows this pub. For the record I didn't even know where Beckley was let alone the pub.

goldstone said:
However that clearly does not sit well with you, for which I humbly seek your forgiveness.

You are forgiven. Just don't do it again.

Make sure you report back your findings, I'm sure I speak for the whole of NSC when I say we are all dying to find out..... What the pub is like? What beers they had on? Whether the landlord was actually an arse or if he just wasn't the greatest on the phone? What choice of bar snacks they had? And most importantly.....was there any decent grumble to oggle behind the jump?

Thunder Bolt · Mar 27, 2015

http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/36/3603/Rose_and_Crown/Beckley

Papak · Mar 27, 2015

Thunder Bolt said:
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/36/3603/Rose_and_Crown/Beckley

Last review August 2013.

AmexRuislip · Mar 27, 2015

goldstone said:
Walking the Sussex Border Path with a group of pals and the next section puts us at Beckley around lunch time on a Sunday. The Rose and Crown is the only pub in the village, but has no website and can find no reviews. Phoned the pub and spoke to the landlord, but in truth not overly impressed.

Anyone know the place? Would appreciate any comments.

http://whatpub.com/pubs/HES/BECKL-1000/rose-crown-beckley

http://www.pubsgalore.co.uk/areas/beckley/east-sussex/

Tom Hark Preston Park · Mar 27, 2015

The fact that the combined resources of NSC don't know the pub strongly suggests that nobody's ever heard of Beckley :lol:

8ace · Mar 27, 2015

I have been in a different pub, in a different place at a different time of day. It was OK in there. HTH

The Hon Sec · Mar 27, 2015

Someone needs to stand up for Beckley. I have been through the village on a number of occasions often on the way to Rye and used to play football against the village team a long time ago. Its a lovely area However, I have never been in the Rose and Crown so my information is irrelevant!

tinycowboy · Mar 27, 2015

The Hon Sec said:
Someone needs to stand up for Beckley. I have been through the village on a number of occasions often on the way to Rye and used to play football against the village team a long time ago. Its a lovely area However, I have never been in the Rose and Crown so my information is irrelevant!

I stayed for a week in Beckley once, although I didn't go to the pub during that time. It is very nice around there, and there is the novelty value of having a large supermarket that you've never heard of in a village (Jempson's in Peasmarsh), although the prices were not as keen as Morrisons'. The village street is long and contains many different forms of vernacular architecture. I like it.

The Hon Sec · Mar 27, 2015

People apparently travel a long way to go to Jempson's . But not me.

goldstone · Mar 27, 2015

The Hon Sec said:
Someone needs to stand up for Beckley. I have been through the village on a number of occasions often on the way to Rye and used to play football against the village team a long time ago. Its a lovely area However, I have never been in the Rose and Crown so my information is irrelevant!

The guide to the Sussex Border Path says the section from Bodiam to Beckley has some of the nicest scenery on the entire 150 mile walk. Looking forward to it.

Have now decided to position a car somewhere along the route to take us to an alternative pub (probably the Swan Inn in Wittersham) as the Rose and Crown appears to be questionable, so unfortunately I'll be unable to report back.

Pinkie Brown · Mar 27, 2015

The Hon Sec said:
People apparently travel a long way to go to Jempson's . But not me.

They have their fingers in quite a few pies in that area. Everything from supermarkets, cafe's, road haulage to undertakers. I know a few people who have worked for them. None of them were particularly complimentary about them as an employer to work for.

Norman Potting · Mar 27, 2015

tinycowboy said:
I stayed for a week in Beckley once, although I didn't go to the pub during that time. It is very nice around there, and there is the novelty value of having a large supermarket that you've never heard of in a village (Jempson's in Peasmarsh), although the prices were not as keen as Morrisons'. The village street is long and contains many different forms of vernacular architecture. I like it.

You are thinking of Peasmarsh not Beckley. I saw my friend's band play in the Rose and Crown around 30 years ago - don't remember anything about the pub. Hope that helps.

johnjim · Mar 27, 2015

Never used it myself, but a certain ex Beatle who lives down the road is supposed to have. Give him a ring

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