A smart gastro-pub serving quality food and well kept beers and ciders. It manages to create a pub atmosphere as you enter with a traditional bar area boasting nine hand pumps arranged so beers are ordered light to dark to help you choose with a dark beer always available. The changing beers are usually from local microbreweries and the house beer, Brunning & Price Original Bitter 3.8%, is from Brightside. There is an outside seating area at the back and a large lawned garden. The pub was the local CAMRA Cider Pub of the Year 2017, 2018 and 2019 and 2023. Local CAMRA Branch Pub of Excellence Award 2022 and Pub of the Year 2023.
The Little Fox is a private function and dining space opened in 2018. Capable of holding up to 200 people it has its own bar which can serve up to three real ales on handpump.
Historic Interest
Westwood House was built in the 1860s. It has at different times been a private house, a country club, a restaurant and a night club. Previously known as the Westwood Grange and the Grange. It was acquired and extensively refurbished by Brunning & Price Group it was re-opened in December 2014 as a smart gastro-pub with a change of name to the Red Fox.
This Pub serves 7 changing beers and 2 regular beers.
Red Fox, Thornton Hough
from local microbreweries and nationally known brewers
Changing beers typically include: Brimstage (varies) , Neptune (varies) , Weetwood (varies)
Source: Local