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Bailey Head, Oswestry

Operator: Independent
Bailey Head, Oswestry, SY11 1PZ (View on Google Map)

Awards

Won 1 award

This venue won an award in 2024.
2024
Super Regional Pub of the Year - West Midlands

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Accredited for beer quality 2022

This former Marston's pub was renamed The Bailey Head and reopened under private ownership in March 2016 with a vison to create a community centred pub.

Serial winners of the Branch Market Towns Pub of the Year and winners of the overall title in 2019. The Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA) named the pub the UK’s Best Rural Independent Craft Beer Pub or Bar 2020 and it has been a finalist many times.

Six cask beers are supplemented by eleven other draught beers, of which at least six are KeyKeg. The range constantly changes, with over 600 different cask and 150 keg/KeyKeg beers a year served pre-Coronavirus. At least one dark cask and one dark KeyKeg beer is always available. Four ciders and a perry are served on handpull, all meeting CAMRA's definition.

A substantial range of bottle and can beers are carried from across the UK and overseas.

The beer selection is supplemented by an extensive menu of gin, rum, vodka and whisky as well as an in-house cocktail list.

Food is no longer served but customers can bring in their own food or get food from one of the local takeaways.

Local community groups are welcome. A range of board games, for children and adults, is provided and the pub is very dog friendly being voted Most Dog Friendly Pub in the West Midlands in 2017.

Historic Interest

Once the Castle Tavern, the pub was named after the nearby remnants of Oswestry Castle which pre-dates the town. A Royalist stronghold during the Civil War of the 17th century, the castle was destroyed after the war by the Parliamentarians to prevent it being used as a base for a resistance movement.

Information for this venue is provided by the Shrewsbury & West Shropshire Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Castle Tavern; Eagles
Local Authority
Shropshire
Last updated
12/08/2024
Last surveyed
29/12/2023
Pub ID
SHR/4645
Asset of Community Value
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Opening
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
3:00pm - 10:30pm
Wednesday
3:00pm - 10:30pm
Thursday
3:00pm - 10:30pm
Friday
Noon - 11:30pm
Saturday
Noon - 11:30pm
Sunday
Noon - 10:00pm
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Current beers

This Pub serves 6 changing beers and 1 regular beer.

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Facilities
Garden Garden
Tables on pavement
Family Friendly Family Friendly
Disabled Access Disabled Access
Dog Friendly Dog Friendly
Games Games
Lined Glasses Lined Glasses
Newspapers Newspapers
Smoking Smoking
Wi Fi Wi Fi
Features
Real Ale Real Ale
Real Cider Real Cider
Four ciders and a perry
LocAle LocAle
Always at least one. Also, bear in mind that Oswestry is in North Shropshire so many of the Locale beers come from North Wales
Transport
Close to bus routes
Arriva: 53 and 70 (Daytime Only)
Directions
In the Market Square opp the Guildhall
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