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The Boat Inn, Telford

Ferry Road
Jackfield
Postal town: Telford
TF8 7LS

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Real Ale Ray left this review about The Boat Inn

This pub has it all, friendly and chatty management and staff, plus all the locals. The beer quality was all superb, 5 pumps with 3 on, Bristol Beer Factory Wilson, TT Golden Best and Wye Valley HPA. The interior consisted of a bar area on the left as you enter with a lounge area on the right. There was an old black range on one wall, horse brasses and toby jugs on display. This pub also offers entertainment in the form of traditional Irish trad music and a Yam Yam Elvis due to appear here.
Another star of the show was the veg samosas and dips, which were only £1.50 each. The owner was proud to tell us that he sources them from Wolverhampton.

On 5^th May 2025 - rating: 8
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Will Larter left this review about The Boat Inn

A change in tenancy since I was here last, and this has resulted in a definite improvement in beer quality and choice. Apparently the couple who had been running the pub had a habit of falling out with their customers and barring increasing numbers, leading to a severe drop in trade; this is now being reversed. (Including now accepting card payments as well as cash.) My Black Sheep Bitter was as good as I've had, and I was kept entertained by a couple of regulars during a quiet period. I returned a couple of nights later when the beer was still good but the pub was busy, with a group of musicians of varying proficiency (possibly the same as mentioned in my review from 2017 below) indulging in some Irish music, and a group of a dozen students from Liverpool, presumably on a field trip to study the Severn Gorge, making their way over the bridge from the hostel for anything but real ale. Apparently the pub, although famous for floods when the Severn overtops its banks, now receives sufficient warning from the Environment Agency that everything on the ground floor can be cleared away before the waters rise, including dismantling the bar. I imagine the takings still take a hit, though.

On 6^th May 2022 - rating: 8
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Will Larter left this review about The Boat Inn

A very nice, traditional pub near the footbridge over the Severn. Being below the level of the levee means that it is subject to occasional inundation, which events are recorded on the disused door in the right hand corner (see photo). Once inside there's a quarry tiled floor, a traditional wooden bar and a kitchen range, which was not lit. I was staying at the youth hostel and called in here both evenings. On the first there were a handful of local customers and the beer was in very good condition (Banks's Bitter); on the second night there were eight or nine folk musicians, of whom the two banjo players seemed very good, the fiddlers and penny whistlers less so; perhaps it's my ears. The Bitter was clearly towards the end of the barrel, so I switched to the Banks's Mild, but this was disappointing, though more the fault of the brewer than the cellarman, I would guess. The other beers were Marstons Pedigree and EPA; with better beers I would have given this pub an 8, as I liked it very much, but as it is it will have to be content with a 7.

Date of visit: 8th November 2017

On 28^th November 2017 - rating: 7
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