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This venue won an award in 2024.
2024
Regional Pub of the Year - Wales

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A beer only pub no food.

Situated on the Cresswell River this 250 year old, ivy-covered hostelry seems like a throwback to the Victorian age. The homely farm kitchen interior, where a roaring fire burns in the hearth, is a haven for locals and visitors alike. Accessible by boat from the Milford Haven estuary at high tide, the pub also lies on a series of interesting walking routes. This is a beer-only pub (no food served), but the landlord sometimes arranges riverside barbecues on Summer weekends. Pembrokeshire CAMRA Pub of the Year 2015 and 2024,Wales CAMRA Pub of the Year 2024. Please check opening times before visiting in winter. Branch Cider Pub of the Year 2025 - real cider is usually avaliable in summer.

Historic Interest

Pembrokeshire heritage pub. Grade II Listed. Cadw reference 15930.

Information for this venue is provided by the Pembrokeshire Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Local Authority
Sir Benfro - Pembrokeshire
Last updated
08/06/2025
Last surveyed
06/04/2024
Leasehold owner
unknown
Freehold owner
Steve Adams
Pub ID
PEM/279
Asset of Community Value

Two star - A pub interior of very special national historic interest

Listed status: II

A fine, delightfully simple riverside pub which was in the same family hands from 1896 to 1981 and has seen only one significant change. 

The change in question was the cutting of an opening in the dividing wall to the former kitchen and pantry in about 1981 to expand the public bar and slightly extend the bar counter. The old part of the public bar is a delight with its quarry-tiled floor. open cast-iron fireplace, Victorian counter, and bar-back shelves held up by slender columns. Seating includes basic benches attached to a half-height panelled dado. To the rear right is a further room, which has been brought into public use in recent years.

General information about historic pub interiors

Only the most minor of changes have been made to the unspoilt public bar of this out-of-the way pub. This fine creeper covered 18th-century house beside a tidal creek was remodelled and opened as a pub in the 1880s. Alice Davies ran it from 1961 until 1981 when she was in her 90s and the oldest licensee in the county. Maurice & Janet Cole took over in 1981 and looked after Alice Davies until she died aged 105. The Victorian public bar looks little different to when it was opened in 1880 with red and black quarry-tiled floor, open cast-iron fireplace, Victorian counter and bar back shelves held up by slender columns. Seating includes basic benches attached to a half-height panelled dado. The only change made by the Coles’ has been to cut a narrow opening in the dividing wall to the former kitchen and pantry in c.1981 to expand the public area and slightly extend the bar counter. The rear area also has a red and black quarry-tiled floor - a wood stove has recently replaced the old Aga cooker with tiled surround. Note the door with a number ‘3’ on it, which suggests it was a room used for storing alcohol (the numbering was a requirement of Customs and Excise for rooms for serving or storing alcohol). To the rear right is a further room, which has been brought into public use in recent years. It has an early 20th-century tiled and cast-iron fireplace and glass-fronted display cabinet. Gents’ accessed via passageway - the original outside gents' are still there!

General information about historic pub interiors
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Monday
11:00am - 11:00pm
Tuesday
11:00am - 11:00pm
Wednesday
11:00am - 11:00pm
Thursday
11:00am - 11:00pm
Friday
11:00am - 11:00pm
Saturday
11:00am - 11:00pm
Sunday
11:00am - 11:00pm

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Current beers

This Pub serves 1 changing beer and 3 regular beers.

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Draught Bass - Draught Bass TasteMatch Prediction

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Draught Bass - Draught Bass
Draught Bass - Draught Bass Premium Bitter • 4.4%
Draught Bass - Draught Bass
Draught Bass - Draught Bass

This beer is served regularly at Cresselly Arms, Cresswell Quay.

ABV 4.4%
Dispense Handpump
Style Premium Bitter
Colour
Vegan No
Gluten Free No

Hancock's - HB TasteMatch Prediction

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Hancock's - HB
Hancock's - HB Session Bitter • 3.7%
Hancock's - HB
Hancock's - HB

This beer is served regularly at Cresselly Arms, Cresswell Quay.

ABV 3.7%
Dispense Handpump
Style Session Bitter
Colour
Vegan No
Gluten Free No

Glamorgan - Jemimas Pitchfork TasteMatch Prediction

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Glamorgan - Jemimas Pitchfork
Glamorgan - Jemimas Pitchfork Premium Golden Ale • 4.5% Spotted 5 times.
Glamorgan - Jemimas Pitchfork
Glamorgan - Jemimas Pitchfork

This beer is served regularly and Spotted 5 times. at Cresselly Arms, Cresswell Quay.

ABV 4.5%
Dispense Handpump
Style Premium Golden Ale
Colour
Vegan No
Gluten Free No
Changing

Changing beers typically include: Bluestone - Bedrock Blonde , Mantle - MOHO , Wye Valley - Butty Bach

Source: Local


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Facilities
Sports TV Sports TV
Rugby International and cricket only
Live Music Live Music
Sometimes
Garden Garden
Quay area with seating
Family Friendly Family Friendly
Ideal for crabbing off the Quay
Disabled Access Disabled Access
Parking Parking
Camping Camping
(1000m)
Events Events
Summer barbecues on the quay for local charities.
Real Fire Real Fire
Separate Bar Separate Bar
Smoking Smoking
Features
Cask Ale Cask Ale
Real Cider Real Cider
Real Heritage Pub Real Heritage Pub
Quiet Quiet
Member Discount Scheme Member Discount Scheme
10%
Transport

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