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Shakespeare Inn, Telford

High Street
Coalport
Postal town: Telford
TF8 7HT

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Coalport

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Real Ale Ray left this review about Shakespeare Inn

Only a short walk over the footbridge from the Boat past a disused canal basin, which has been handed over to nature and a few ducks. We then passed the old railway sidings just before the pub, that was used to haul coal uphill from the canal. This is a fairly large size pub if you include the patio garden and conservatory extension.
The bar area had heritage patterned floor tiles around the perimeter and had a painted bar front and timber counter. Four pumps with three dispensing Ludlow Blonde, Hobson's Town Crier and HPA.

On 5^th May 2025 - rating: 7
[User has posted 3684 recommendations about 3684 pubs]

Blue Scrumpy left this review about Shakespeare Inn

The Shakespeare is much more of a traditional pub than the Woodbridge Inn a bit further along the river. This one is situated in the village itself next to the Tar Tunnel. Its location means that it will always attract a fair amount of day trippers.

There is a small roadside patio at the front and a garden to the rear. Inside, there are various rooms. The main bar area has a tiled floor with a mixture of exposed brick walls and cream paint. A wood burner remained unlit on a fairly warm spring day.

Wye Valley HPA & Ludlow Gold are the regular beers. The guest beer was Hobson's Old Prickly with a fourth handpull unclipped. Ciders were Inch's & Old Mout. Plenty of wines are also sold with a full list above the bar.

Food was being served whilst we were there and both children and dogs are welcome. There is limited parking next to the pub. If there are no spaces, there is a public car park just the other side of the bridge.

On 12^th March 2025 - rating: 6
[User has posted 3111 recommendations about 3109 pubs]

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Will Larter left this review about Shakespeare Inn

Although I've stayed in Coalport several times in recent years, at the hostel in the John Rose factory building just along the road, I haven't been to the Shakespeare for nearly a decade as I prefer the Boat just across the river in Jackfield. However, on this occasion I found the latter having no real ale on - a temporary situation with a barrel that hadn't settled - so thought I might as well give this one a try. A decision I soon regretted. It's not just that it's food oriented. It's not just the loud background music and the fact that there was only me and one other customer. It's not just the sign reminding customers to keep their shirts on. It's not even the uninspiring beer choice (Ludlow Blonde, Three Tuns Rantipole and Sharps Sea Fury). I guess I was annoyed with myself for buying a pint rather than a half of Rantipole, an "ultra light bitter" according to the pump clip) when I didn't know whether or not I liked it, and then had to drink it.

The pub has two entrances, one through the small beer garden on the left, the other from the car park on the right. Both bring you eventually into the central area where the bar is situated. As the previous reviewer has noted, this is not the sort of place that caters for casual drinkers around the bar, but as any diners had long since left the building I was able to occupy a table quite comfortably. If there had been a beer more to my taste I would probably have stayed for a second pint and then called it a day. As it was, I decided to walk to the Woodbridge.

Date of visit: 17th October 2019

On 2^nd December 2019 - rating: 5
[User has posted 4348 recommendations about 3996 pubs]

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