Palmerston Arms, Woodston, Peterborough

Finally! a decent pub in Peterborough. Really good selection of brews on the bar and a dart board, just begging to be played. The only down side was the white board for scoring with dried out pens. What is wrong with a black board? Stopped for a couple of beers and was not disappointed.

A proper village local that must be pretty busy on a regular basis to support the large choice of real ales constantly available on stillage in the room behind the bar. To be fair, there was a bias in favour of blonde beers at the time of my visit, but it appears this is not a usual situation. Both the beers I drank were in excellent condition and if I only had time for one drink before or after a game at London Road stadium, this would have to be the one for me. Date of visit: 6th December 2015

Official site of The Palmerston Arms - www.palmerston-arms.co.uk

Official site of The Palmerston Arms - www.palmerston-arms.co.uk

Bateman's XXXB, Salem Porter, GHA Pale, Burton Bridge Bamboozler, Castle Rock Harvest Pale, Everards Sunchaser, Derby ‘Dino & Pete's Breakfast Blonde', Digfield IPA, Brewsters Daffy's Elixir. What was the vault has red tiled floor and beams sport hanging jugs, the front of what was the lounge is still carpetted, BUT the central bar which used to serve both has been knocked through and replaced by a ‘new wood' floor and bar at the rear of the pub open to both sides of what is now an oddly unbalanced U-shape. The large window to the tap-room (for it is from here that all beers are dispensed by gravity) is a very nice touch, but I'm afraid I did not like the unneccessary change of layout and my voicing an opinion against the vandalism briefly irked the landlady, under whose auspices the change evidently happened, though she remained polite when I returned to the bar. It's lost something, including the double-jokers we played on our first pre-structural-change visit.