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If you love the British pub, you will like this blog. Here I will review the pubs I drop into in my wanderings around my home region - urban, rural, posh, homely, fun pubs, restaurant pubs, and local backstreet pubs. I hope to encourage people to appreciate them.
I will score each pub out of five points each (30 points maximum) on its ambience, decor, service, whether it serves real ales, state of the toilets (but I can't vouch for the state of the gents because I don't use them!) and what extras it has - games, beer garden, newspapers, serves food, karaoke, quizzes, live music.
If after reading one of my reviews you decide to check out a pub, I hope you enjoy the experience. But bear in mind that I have only visited some of them once, and pubs and pub managers change. If the review needs updating, please leave a comment.
Ups and downs? Well, people drink when they're down. And they drink to celebrate, when they're feeling 'up'. Besides that, this is hill country. It's full of ups and downs.
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Sunday, 24 February 2013

The Cross Keys


The Cross Keys In, Running Hill Gate, Uppermill, Saddleowrth OL3 6LW


A country pub just a 15 minute walk uphill from Uppermill village, this has been a tavern since 1763 and was on the old packhorse route over the Saddleworth hills into Marsden in Yorkshire. It is now the headquarters of the Oldham Mountain Rescue Team, and the meeting place (in the barn next door) for a branch of the George Formby Society, which provides ukelele lessons for its members.
   The name Cross Keys is associated with St Peter, the keeper of the keys to Heaven, and is often given to pubs near churches dedicated to him. However, although Saddleworth Church is only a quarter of a mile down the hill from the pub, it is dedicated to St Chad!


Ambience - 4
decor - 4
stone floors, dark beams, wood burniung stove; very traditional feel.

ale - 2
JW Lees pub

features - 3
serves food
monthly folk music
allows children and dogs

service- 4
fast and friendly, even when the pub is busy (as it often is at weekends when I have been there)

toilets - 3

Score 20 out of 30


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