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The Blue Boar, Ludlow
Ludlow
SY8 1BB
Reviews of The Blue Boar (Average Rating: 8 of 10) see review guidelines
Soup Dragon left this review about The Blue Boar
UPDATE: The Boar has had a makeover, though remains in the same layout (and not sure about the fairy lights), tonally is different (no music or TV), and has a a far better beer choice. Service was fine and the few in were mature. A must do now. Four ales: HPA, Black Sheep bitter, Hobsons Town Crier and Three Tuns Clerics Cure - which was excellent
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[July 2014] A 3-storey Georgian town house converted to a pub. It has nice sash windows, a central pedimented entrance and has a blue painted stucco front. The interior is open plan, but you can get a real feel of the former layout. The decor is red and cream and it now seems to cater for the younger element, despite the old photos on the walls. The service was fine and there are TVs (some not on) and a juke box that was banging out the music at a loud level. Beer; usual taps stuff with Doombar and a decent enough Ludlow Gold on handpull. Great building, just too loud - but at least the Gold was good.
On 13th July 2025
- no rating submitted
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Blackthorn _ left this review about The Blue Boar
An impressive looking Georgian style pub located just off the Market Square, it’s obviously been renovated at some point and whilst it might not be as traditional in style as it once was, it has nonetheless managed to retain it’s character. Bar staff were friendly and helpful, although this may change as apparently Punch Taverns have declined to renew the lease for the current landlord who has turned the pub completely around, and are instead putting in their own management team. There was a petition on the bar to try and get them to reverse this decision.
Two similar sized rooms are located either side of the front door, the one on the left having old wooden boards on the floor, a striking yellow colour scheme on the walls and some old black timberwork. A small fireplace was in one corner with a number of shields on the wall above, as well as a stag’s head and a number of theatre posters. The room to the right was broadly similar in style but with quite a vibrant purple on the walls, and there was also a piano with a few board games piled on tap and a projector, although there was no screen so presumably this is only pressed in to use for major events. A smaller snug off to the right had a mixture of exposed brickwork and green paintwork. The menu offered a decent enough selection of “pub grub” dishes, and my lasagne with garlic bread was decent enough, if nothing spectacular.
Beers on tap were Black Sheep bitter, Wye Valley HPA, Hobson’s Town Crier and Three Tuns Cleric’s Cure. After an interesting beer selection, ciders though were a distinctly uninteresting Stowford Press and Old Mout Berries & Cherries. All in all, a decent enough pub and well worth popping in.
On 2nd April 2025
- rating: 7
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Tris C left this review about The Blue Boar
Situated along picturesque and precipitous Mill Street and diagonally opposite the Ludlow Assembly Rooms, the Blue Boar [Inn] was once an 18th century house (English Heritage) prior to conversion and grade-II listed since 15th April 1954; it was also closed down a few years back due to ‘antisocial’ behaviour.
The interior now features bare boards to multiple rooms, then ochre paint to the dado, teal paint to an off-white low ceiling featuring lovely exposed and unpainted beams. Furniture is traditional, including some peripheral pews and benches to window reveals. Décor amounts to some eclectic prints, but mainly colourful fliers for all of Shakespeare’s plays performed at the Ludlow Festival and dating from the 1970s to the present. Customers amounted to mixed genteel locals, entertained by a soundtrack from the likes of the Cure, Verve, Pulp, The Jam and Joy Division.
There was a choice of four ales: Wye Valley HPA, Hobsons Town Crier, Three Tuns Cleric’s Cure and Black Sheep Bitter at a very reasonable £2.05 a half and good, served by friendly barman.
This is one of the best pubs in Ludlow so give it a go.
On 16th November 2023
- rating: 8
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- Accommodation : No last updated 25 September 2023 by ROB Camra
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- Beer Garden : Yes last updated 25 September 2023 by ROB Camra
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- Child Friendly : Yes last updated 25 September 2023 by ROB Camra
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- Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 16 November 2023 by Tris C
- Function Room : Yes last updated 25 September 2023 by ROB Camra
- Hot Food : Yes last updated 25 September 2023 by ROB Camra
- Jukebox : No last updated 25 September 2023 by ROB Camra
- Karaoke : No last updated 25 September 2023 by ROB Camra
- Live Music : No last updated 25 September 2023 by ROB Camra
- Live TV Sports : No last updated 25 September 2023 by ROB Camra
- Micropub : No last updated 25 September 2023 by ROB Camra
- Pinball : No last updated 25 September 2023 by ROB Camra
- Pool Table : No last updated 25 September 2023 by ROB Camra
- Quiz Night : Yes - Third Thursday of every month. - last updated 16 November 2023 by Tris C
- Real Ale : Yes last updated 25 September 2023 by ROB Camra
- Real Cider : No last updated 25 September 2023 by ROB Camra
- WiFi : Yes last updated 25 September 2023 by ROB Camra
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