The Turks Head, Sowerby Bridge

Visited on Saturday while on the Calder Valley real ale trail. At the bar was an overly friendly inebriated gentleman warning us about a less friendly man on the other side of us. He kept pointing at the various pump clips and grinning, and thought maybe he was a real ale enthusiast, but instead he trotted off with a massive vodka with some Vimto in it. As we were about to be served the man we had been warned about chipped in and said the lady next to him had been waiting before us. We didn't argue. Service was friendly but there was only one barmaid on so it took a while to get served. The bar area itself was fairly small. There were 6 hand pumps of which 5 were in use. The pub itself was not too busy but the beer garden sounded a bit rowdy. Nice to have tried it but it felt more like a locals' pub and I was glad to drink up and leave and move on to the next place.

A nice little pub off the main drag. 2 rooms with the slightly larger one to your left as you enter. You can see into both as they are separated by a through way. 6 handpumps on the bar with Abbeydale Twisted Sister, Ghost Reaper, Farmers bitter, White Lion by someone and Salopian Lemon Dream. It overlooks what I assume is the River Calder. Two real fires ablaze today. A nice friendly pub.