Ring O Bells

Ring O Bells

St Leonards Square, Middleton M24 6DJ

TEL: 0161 654 9245

This pub opened in 1831 and is at the top of the hill behind Jubilee Gardens and the town library in Middleton. It hosts a maypole on May Day and a Pace Egging festival on Easter Monday, which is when this photo was taken. You can see "The Doctor" in the top hat and frock coat at the foot of the steps. 

Ambience - 4

lively

Decor - 3

Dark wooden beams and cream painted walls, gives it a traditional feel. Most of the seating is wooden and not so comfortable, though.

Real ales - 2

This is a JW Lees pub, and has Lees bitter, lager and pale ale.

Service - 5

Very fast and friendly. Though when I was there, I think they had extra staff to deal with the extra customers who'd come to watch the Pace Egging. 

Features - 4

Sunday lunch

Pool room

Quiz night

Rather nice beer garden

Toilets - 4

Would've scored 5 if it wasn't for the dirty floor

Score 22 out of 30

Woodroffe Arms

Woodroffe Arms

1 Castleton Road, Hope, Hope Valley, Derbyshire

Solid village pub in the village centre, in the Peak District National Park. One mile from Hope railway station.

ambience - 3

decor -3

comfortable seating and has  a real fire.

ales -2

service - 4

fast and friendly

features - 5

child friendly

dog friendly

serves food

accommodation

wheelchair access 

toilets - 4

no soap

 

Score 21 out of 30

 

The Royal George, Greenfield, Saddleworth

The Royal George, Manchester Road, Greenfield, OL3 7HX

Phone: 01457 837851

On a main road junction, with roads leading to Huddersfield, Delph, and Greenfield, and close to the Saddleworth hills. The Tameside Valley Way is just across the junction and this is a good pub to stop off at if you are walking in the area. It's mainly a restaurant pub, with lunchtime and evening menu, and is in a pleasant enough setting to be worth a drive out if you want to eat out.  Bus 350 Oldham-Ashton passes close by at the road junction, runs every half hour during the week, once an hour on Sundays.

decor - 4

recently decorated in cream, uncluttered, few pub ornaments.

ambience - 3

A pleasant, spacious pub with two rooms and a dining room, but the piped music and the TV were on at the same time when I was there, (September 2012) and the overlapping noise got irritating.

ale - 2

JW Lees pub, was serving Moonraker and British Jewels when I was there in 2012, Golden Peddler in August 2014.

service -5

friendly, and impressively fast even though the place was busy

Features - 4

Food, quite varied menus, for lunch and evening

Dogs permitted.

Live music regularly throughout the month

Home of Off The Rails Comedy Club, last Sunday of the month
Function room for hire

Toilets -4

Quite good condition but the dryer didn't work.

Score 23 out of 30

Wheelchair access



The Kingfisher, Greenfield

The Kingfisher, Chew Valley Road, Greenfield, Saddleworth

A newly built pub, between the Huddersfield Canal and the new Tesco at Greenfield village. The building looks unremarkable from the outside, but it is a rather nice restaurant pub with a big, varied menu and a view of the Saddleworth hills from the beer garden at the back. Well worth a visit for a special meal out.

ambience - 4

lively but not rowdy

decor - 4

very Noughties, bold colours with uncluttered walls

service - 3

staff can be a bit offhand, but they're always very busy. The place gets filled up on most evenings.

real ales - 1

features - 1

serves food

toilets - 4

clean, new, fully supplied

Score 17 out of 30