Barley Mow, Cowbridge

David Walton left this review about Barley Mow

Visited 17/06/26

Four handpumps but just the one dispensing the Wye Valley Butty Bach. Keg offering of Guinness, Caffrey's, Coors, Cruz, Hawkstone lager, Inch's and original SB.

Certainly, what seems like the most isolated Vale of Glamorgan pub I have ticked. Pretty unspoilt village pub with some seating out the front of the venue in a raised paved area. The bar counter faces you as a right-angled affair as you enter, and the area is a mish mash of boarded, stone tiled and carpeted. Regular tables and chairs and some banquettes and leather bucket armchairs around the bar area and the TV screens here were showing tennis with commentary on my visit. Low beamed ceiling spotting multiple strands of plain white fairy lights and there was a large log burner in the fire grate on the right-hand wall. An internal door to the edge of the bar counter takes you to a rear dining orientated space, also bare boarded and tables laid for diners including an offshoot up a couple of steps in the rear left-hand corner of the venue. There is a rear paved beer garden with typical patio style furniture, some of which is covered. The venue was quiet on my mid-week mid evening visit and I am glad I visited in mid-summer to enjoy the greenery of the Uber ride from the centre of Cowbridge.

On 6^th July 2026 - rating: 6
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