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The Wheatsheaf Inn, Newport
Llanhennock
Postal town: Newport
NP18 1LT
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 6 of 10) see review guidelines
Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Wheatsheaf Inn
Village pub with fantastic views of the Welsh countryside and a valley. Inside there are a couple of traditional rooms and both were busy on my early Friday evening visit. Locals had gathered in the room to the right of the entrance that I tried. Not willing to give up a seat at the last table, I didn't check out the other room.
The room on the right was lovely and warm with a coal fire and an additional heater that didn't seem to be necessary. Plenty of things to peruse on the walls and even on the ceilings, with a few fake parrots hanging down on perches!
Service was a little odd. With a lack of available seating, locals were crowded around a small area around the bar chatting about the following day's Six Nations rugby matches. There was a landlady and two young barmaids. The one just seemed to look at me, with no greeting (such as hello, can I help, what can I get you) whatsoever. I had to ask her if she was actually serving after an uncomfortable period of silence.
Fuller's London Pride is the regular real ale. Guests were Butcombe Best Bitter & Glamorgan Cwrw Gorslas. There is a garden on one side of the pub and a reasonably sized car park on the other.
I found this to be a nice and cosy village local, but it had a beer choice that didn't particularly inspire me and service that left a lot to be desired. Nevertheless, it appears in the Good Beer Guide and I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.
On 5th February 2024
- rating: 6
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Will Larter left this review about The Wheatsheaf Inn
A small, two-roomed village pub with a snug to the left and the bar to the right, so named, though I couldn't see anything in terms of size, furnishings or quality to otherwise distinguish them. There's an additional building set at right angles, which appears to house the kitchen and other rooms. It was busy at the time of my Thursday lunchtime stop, with most tables occupied by people even older than me. So I selected a beer and took it outside to the pleasant garden, which is surrounded by tall hedges and so doesn't benefit from the view seen from the road which runs through the scattered dwellings of this ridge-top village. My beer was Wadworth 6X, which is not as good as I remember it to have been 30 years ago, but then there are a lot of things I could say that about and mostly they'd be the fault of my eyes, ears, taste buds and nostrils. But in this case I'm going to blame the brewer, because it seemed to have been kept in pretty good condition and well served by the friendly bar staff. I had come here for the photo as much as for a beer: the pub is almost on the route of my cycle ride along the Usk valley to Newport. Was I glad to have done the extra climbing to get here? Yes, on the whole - but I'd need a better beer as a reward for any subsequent visit.
Date of visit: 10th May 2018
On 1st June 2018
- rating: 6
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