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The King Of The Belgians, Huntingdon

27 Main Street
Hartford
Huntingdon
PE29 1XU

Phone: 0148052030

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Huntingdon Town, Hartford

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Old Boots left this review about The King Of The Belgians

A delightful looking white painted pub on what was obviously once the main road through the original village of Hartford. Multi award winning GBG listed pub, one wall of the public bar is covered with awards, at time of writing it had four current awards, three branch ones and Cambridgeshire Pub of the Year. The room to the left of the building has a counter but appears to be used as a dining room or restaurant. Both counters have four beer engines with a changing selection, today the beers were from Milton, Theakstons, Allsopps and Langton. Both counters had the same beers and a blackboard showed “on next” from similar breweries. A range of local ciders is also available, it’s branch cider pub of the year as well. Keg wise, if it matters, were five national favourites on a low T-bar. The public is nicely furnished with red upholstered benches, stools and chairs at Britannia or old wooden tables. As well as the awards the decor is pictures and posters for local events, horse brasses on the not so old beams and covering the low ceiling a large collection of air force related stickers, many from US outfits. A display of photos on one wall relates to RAF Alconbury. Clearly an old building, Camra claims 16th century (!) , nothing internal looks that old, even the punters are just middle aged. Definitely a decent village pub though with screen (off) and piped music alas on.

On 13^th August 2026 - no rating submitted
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Graham Coombs left this review about The King Of The Belgians

A splendid local pub in what was once a village but has now been subsumed by Huntingdon. Two rooms with a dining room to one side and the main bar to the other. There's a fair amount of aged woodwork, and lots of assorted tut dangling from the walls and rafters. Four handpumps offered a superb Wolf Sirius Dog Star along with Barnwell Bitter, Sharp's Twin Coast and Nene Valley Manhattan Project, with Cromwell Cider also available. Food is traditional pub stuff, home made and very good. A good pub that is worth the long trek (or bus ride) from town.

On 15^th May 2026 - rating: 8
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Strongers . left this review about The King Of The Belgians

The King of the Belgians is a bit of a walk north of Huntingdon, and even further from where I started my drunken hike in Godmanchester, but it was worth it for the country village cottage vibe. The larger tile floored bar to the left was empty apart from an aged dining couple, so I opted for the small public bar to the right where 15 or so locals had assembled to make it comfortably busy. An L-shaped serving counter serves both bars, and in the public bar it is found across the rear wall to the left where there are also bar stools. I sat on one of the small tables along the front wall opposite the counter with the bulk of people sat on the standard furniture to my right. There’s lots of aircraft stickers across the ceiling above the bar area and on the walls are lots of awards and certificates. There’s an old fireplace in the left wall adjacent to the counter where some board games are piled up next to more pub related things. There are no televisions, that I could see, but there was some low background music from the last century playing. From the bar, a premium and standard keg range was available alongside Camden Hells, and the four hand pumps were drawing Mighty Oak Brewing’s Mars Azzacs, St Austell’s Cornish Best, Wily Fox Brewery’s Dublin Up, Castle Rock Brewery’s Harvest Pale. There’s also a large real cider range courtesy of Cromwell Ciders, and a coming soon board which is always good to see. I assume this is an affluent area because the average age of the locals was mid-60s, it was nice to feel so young. I liked the staff and there was a good chatty atmosphere, so I’d make the walk up here again, just maybe not from the other side of the Great Ouse.

On 25^th November 2025 - rating: 8
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