The Last Inn, Church Aston, Newport

This was planned as my last pub - appropriately - of a trip around Newport and outskirts, for the good reason that my bus to Telford had a stop opposite the pub. My walk from the penultimate pub suffered from inattention to the map on my part, resulting in arriving nearly an hour late and having missed one bus, with another due in three minutes. So I had enough time to decide which beer from three I was going to neck quickly: Butcombe Gold, Marstons 61 Deep, or a beer badged as Last Inn Ale which I was told was a 3.4% pale brewed by Marstons. Having the beer poured and paying for it took another 40 seconds, so I had about 20 seconds left to drink my half of Last Inn Ale and cross the road (carefully). The bus was 90 seconds late: I could have had a pint.

Official site of The Last Inn - thelastinnnewport.co.uk

Official site of The Last Inn - thelastinnnewport.co.uk

Previously known as the Last Inn , the Aston calls itself a Country Dining Pub , there are two entrances both to the side of the pub , one marked Bar the other Restuarant , they both lead to the same room , the bar door takes you into the bottom half of the pub with low beams and an open fire , steps lead up to the restuarant area in what is basically one L shaped room , for a dining pub it came as a suprise that the kitchen is closed in the afternoons (open again at 5.30). There is a decent selection on beer on with Hoegarden and Peroni on draught and a good selection of cask ale , Pedigree , Wye Valley Golden Ale , Wood Shropshire Lad and Three Tun XXX , The Golden Ale was very good . Service was pretty good . Its not a bad pub this

Nice food, nice beer. Bit quiet when we were there though, have heard generally pleasant things though