Chesterfield Arms, Stonegravels, Chesterfield

The one large L shaped room is nicely decorated with lots of wood and pictures along with a mable look figure or two. Lots of hop bines around the ceiling and walls. Some very comfy chairs in the corners make for a very pleasant pub. Reasonably busy at around 5 p.m. on a Thursday evening. This is a Project William pub in conjunction with Ashover Brewery, there were 10 ales available on our visit, 2 from Ashover and the rest guests. Both the beers I had were in excellent nick. This is a very good pub and makes a great double header with the nearby Neptune.

This is a Project William pub originally set up with Brown Ales who were taken over by Ashover and who now have a couple of beers on here. It's an L shaped room with a wood floor and lots of wooden panelling. There is an extension to the rear. Live music was advertised for Saturday night. It was quiet on my Saturday afternoon visit. There are twelve hand pumps here which included two from Ashover and Everard's Sunchaser rather than Tiger. The rest were mainly from the Midlands & North and I went for the Blue Monkey Fat Ape and Marble Howgate & Kemp (both £3.80). Both were excellent pints. This is another good Project William pub but I found it worrying that it was quiet on a Saturday afternoon.

The Chesterfield Arms is a decent sized white painted pub that is at the town end of newbold road. Once inside there was an L shaped room with the bar facing,there was some comfy leather bench seating to the right,with a mix of seating types to the left,the floor was part tiled and carpeted,there were lots of hops hanging above the bar and around the room. The bar facing the entrance had five pumps on,all in use,three had beers from a brewery called Brown Ales,which was local (Clay Cross),i had a drink of Brown Ales The Shining which was a very nice well kept beer,the other beers i noted were Brown Ales Gravity /Inception,Bass,Everards Tiger,Raw Euro IPA,Whim Flower Power,Black Hole Cyborg and Harvistoune Natural Blonde,there were 12 real ales on altogether,with four craft beers in the Barn to the rear,this only opens after 6 in the evening. The pub was fairly busy mid Saturday afternoon with a decent atmosphere,there was also some decent background music playing. This was a very pleasant pub to try some different real ales in. Pub visited 29/3/2014