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Queens Head Inn, Cheltenham
Stow On The Wold
Postal town: Cheltenham
GL54 1AB
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 7½ of 10) see review guidelines
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about Queens Head Inn
There was a good mix of locals and visitors in this Stow pub overlooking The Square. Although, I'm not sure the locals particularly appreciate the influx of outsiders. I certainly got a few strange looks.
This is quite a popular pub. The front bar is fairly traditional with a cartwheel suspended from the ceiling and stone walls. Locals were congregated here near the window. A rear room was where most of the visitors were heading for meals, which seemed quite pricy.
This is another Donnington Brewery pub with BB & Cotswold Gold available in cask format. I'd had enough of their beers to try another one here. This may be the best pub in a fairly touristy town, but it's nothing special.
On 13th October 2024
- rating: 5
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Will Larter left this review about Queens Head Inn
I'm sure I've been here before but it must have been in the early 00s, before I started writing pub reviews. I have some recollection of it being somehow smaller and darker then, there seems to have been an opening up on the left hand side, with a wide passage (with two or three tables) on the way to the garden at the back. There was a scrum at the bar, people who don't know how to behave in pubs standing around with G&Ts and their elbows sticking out, when there were plenty of seats being ignored. The choice at the bar, this being a Donnington pub, was BB or Cotswold Gold. I went for the BB, which had failed to clear, like the same beer in Guiting Power earlier in the day. What is it with this brewery?
On 24th July 2024
- rating: 5
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Ian Mapp left this review about Queens Head Inn
Busiest pub in Stow - having stayed the night for the first time. This may not be down to the beer quality but the beer price. About 30% cheaper than anywhere else.
A gorgeous country boozer in an open plan format, surrounding a central bar. Nice beer garden.
On 21st August 2021
- rating: 8
[User has posted 1695 recommendations about 1669 pubs]
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Gill Smith left this review about Queens Head Inn
Called into this pub while on a coach trip round Gloucestershire pubs and found this to be a friendly pub with a good atmosphere. Selection of Donnington beers available and I enjoyed the Cotswold Gold.
On 18th February 2018
- rating: 8
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Ian Mapp left this review about Queens Head Inn
Quite a choice in Stow on the Wold. None in the 2017 GBG, so I took pot luck.
This Donnington Tied house added a nice symmetry to my walk, having passed the brewery earlier.
A quintessential English countryside boozer. Everything you could want.
Walk details and photos at my blog - http://bit.ly/2d6r9Nf
On 2nd October 2016
- rating: 8
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Peter Jillings left this review about Queens Head Inn
One of the best pubs on The Square. Donnington ales, superb.
On 23rd February 2014
- rating: 8
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Alan Winfield left this review about Queens Head Inn
The Queens Head is on the main square in Stow and it looks like a really nice small pub.
Once inside the pub seemed like a proper pub to have a drink in and it was also quite comfortable,this pub is a Donnington tied house and there were two real ales on the bar i had a drink of Donnington SBA and this was a very nice drink the other beer was Donnington BB.
I think this is one of the better pubs in Stow and would gladly return again.
On 17th May 2011
- rating: 8
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Oggwyn Great left this review about Queens Head Inn
Fantastic little pub , exellent Donnington BB and good food
On 4th December 2009
- rating: 8
[User has posted 797 recommendations about 683 pubs]