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Hayhurst Arms, Middlewich
Bostock Green
Postal town: Middlewich
CW10 9JP
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 7 of 10) see review guidelines
Blue Scrumpy left this review about Hayhurst Arms
This Brunning & Price pub was just about the pick of 7 pubs and a cricket club (Barnton Cricket Club, not listed on here) that we visited in Cheshire on a Sunday afternoon.
The building is impressive and it sits next to the village green. There is a children's play area next to the green and a large car park to the rear of the pub. Inside, it's a typical Brunning & Price interior, mainly bare boards with a few rugs and lots of pictures on the walls, with lots of different spaces to enjoy.
Make no mistake, this place is mainly for dining. Most tables were reserved for diners but bar staff were happy to identify tables that had been kept for drinkers, mainly around a roaring fire between the entrance and the bar. Board games next to the fire were available to play.
Weetwood Bostock Blonde (Cheshire Cat re-badged) is the house beer and whilst we were there, Brightside Brunning & Price Original was poured through. They are presumably the regular cask ales. Guests were Weetwood Eastgate, Hawkshead Prime Porter, Storm Ale Force & Three Tuns XXX. The cider was Seacider Ginger Bread. Camden Stout was on keg.
Whilst Sunday lunchtime is obviously a prime time for dining, there was also evidence that the pub does cater for locals and more generic pubgoers. Live music is hosted on a Friday and there is a quiz on a Sunday. Near the entrance, bookings were being taken for a wine & food tasting evening and there was also a book swap scheme. Dogs are allowed in.
I do like the Brunning & Price formula and its always nice to find a traditional cider in a pub. Although CAMRA probably wouldn't classify this one as "real". However, I opted for the Ale Force which really wasn't the best. Although I think it was more the beer itself than the conditioning.
On 9th March 2026
- rating: 7
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Malden man left this review about Hayhurst Arms
A multi-roomed Brunning and Price venture, very food led but with a decent range of beers as is usual. Boarded and tiled floors with the odd rug here and there, solid looking ceiling beams and all sorts of framed stuff including advertisements for this and that plus a photo of Chester FC from 1889 in hooped shirts. Pot plants, leather armchairs, bookcases of legal tomes and framed indentures. Two banks of the same seven, Phoenix B&P Original, Weetwood Eastgate, Red Willow Seamless, Moorhouses White Witch, Pennine Brewery Ale Trail, Robinson's The Wizard and Merlin's Castle Black Stout. Real cider also available but I didn't spot the make. The pub is fairly remote so most arrive in cars to eat but however you get here it is worth it. It just isn't particularly cheap.
On 18th April 2017
- rating: 7
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