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The Watermill Inn, Burgess Hill

1 Leylands Road
Worlds End
Postal town: Burgess Hill
RH15 0QF

Phone: 01444235517

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Worlds End

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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Watermill Inn

Sizeable community pub near Wivelsfield station (but several miles away from the eponymous village). The opened-out staple-shaped bar has been given a semi-modern refurbishment, but it all feels rather spartan (although there were quite a few groups in, and the pool table at the left-hand end was in constant use). Slightly surprisingly, Long Man beers were available from two of the four handpumps: Best Bitter and Rising Giant (£4.55).

On 30^th December 2024 - rating: 6
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Blue Scrumpy left this review about The Watermill Inn

Under new ownership and as such, this pub no longer opens until midday, despite 11am still published everywhere. The new landlord appears to be a Scottish fellow. He was sporting a Celtic top on my midweek visit.

The exterior looks quite impressive, but inside has been modernised far too much, leaving a fairly characterless interior. One end (to the right as you enter) seems to serve as a dining area, but only other drinkers were present at lunchtime. World Cup cricket was showing on a rather large TV, whilst the left-hand end now houses the pool table and dartboard. I saw no sign of the bar billiards table mentioned in the previous review. Also off to the right-hand side of the building is a beer garden.

Harvey's Sussex Best Bitter is the regular beer. The guest was Adnams Ghost Ship. Real cider appears to have been discontinued too. It's no surprise that the pub no longer features in the Good Beer Guide. Convenient for Wivelsfield station though.

On 19^th October 2023 - rating: 5
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Quinno _ left this review about The Water Mill

A large pub, with a traditionally decorated exterior giving it a tastefully aged look. The inside is surprisingly spacious (perhaps a little too vast in places?) with a central staple-shaped bar (with some attractive picked colour screens on the gantry). Off to the left is a bar billiards table in full working order and to the right is a newly-opened extension housing a pool table, dart boards and the newly-furbished toilets. Plasma screens were dotted around which on our very quiet Sunday visit were showing motocross, though nobody actually appeared to be following proceedings. Décor is perhaps a little tired in places and maybe a little tasteful brightening-up might not go amiss. The beers were We Valley HPA, Harveys and GK Abbot, with one clip turned. My HPA was in fine fettle as you’d expect from a GBG-listed pub. We settled in the bar billiards area and hogged the table for a couple of hours. Quite nice in that area, with a collection of books/magazines plus some nice individually-lit landscape paintings. Chap behind the bar was friendly and it felt like a nice place to be. Worth seeking out if you like a traditional local pub with good beer and punter-friendly facilities and I’d happily pop in again.

On 7^th August 2013 - rating: 8
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