The Wheatsheaf Inn, Thirsk

Official site of The Wheatsheaf Inn - borrowby.wix.com

Official site of The Wheatsheaf Inn - borrowby.wix.com

Comfortable, friendly, village pub fortunately not gastrofied, although good value food is served. It is a large double fronted stone building at the far northern end of the village. A flag floored corridor leads to a dining room to your left and a cosy bar to the right, there is another drinking area at the back. The welcoming front bar has an open fire and the bar counter. Three handpumps dispense local micro brewery beers; on my visit Daleside Bitter, Great Newsome Sleck Dust and Black Dog Schooner. Guinness, Tetley smooth, Strongbow cider and Carlsberg lager complete the limited keg range. Cask ale quality is excellent as befits a Cask Marque and Good Beer Guide listed pub. Décor is as you would expect for an old village pub, horse brasses on the black beams , china jugs, brass ware, and built-in bench seats, with the usual notices, maps and old photos on the upper white walls and lower tongue and groove. In the back bar is the old pub sign so much more interesting than the Tetleys and John Smiths version outside. Just off the A19 between Thirsk and Northallerton this is a hard place to leave.