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This Pub is Closed Long Term
November 2024: Thwaites Brewery are seeking a new tenant.
This family-friendly village pub serves good value home-cooked food, and a range of beers from Thwaites' new 'Ribble Valley' brewery. The large bar-lounge was refurbished in attractive modern style in 2019, and in the front corner is a small snug 'The Jail' with some ancient fittings - this room is reserved for diners. At the back is a large attractive patio and garden area leading down to the Barkby Brook.
Historic Interest
Parts of the building are thought to date back at least 700 years, and Merton College, Oxford owned it from 1271 to 1963, when they sold it to the landlord. A family-owned free house for many years; sold in 2006 by the long-time owners to Scottish & Newcastle; then acquired by Thwaites of Blackburn in 2011. The Malt Shovel was one of the last pubs in the county to brew its own beer. The pub featured in an article in the Leicester Evening Mail in 1955, which described how Harry Oswin was still undertaking a brew every three weeks. The last brew was in December 1956.
This Pub serves no changing beers and 3 regular beers.
Malt Shovel, Barkby
Sports TV
Lunchtime Meals
Evening Meals
Garden
Family Friendly
Disabled Access
Parking
Dog Friendly
Events
Function Room
Restaurant
Smoking
Wi Fi
Real Ale
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