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The Swan & Talbot, Wetherby

34 North Street
Wetherby
LS22 6NN

Phone: 01937582040

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Wetherby Town

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Will Larter left this review about The Swan & Talbot

A long building on the right as the road north takes us out of town, and as it turns out on entering, a low ceilinged building too. The bar counter is long and substantial, with three hand pumps. The Timothy Taylor Landlord clip was turned around, but on enquiry it was swiftly restored to action. My half cost me £2.50 and was in decent condition (NBSS 2.5), having perhaps become a little stale in the pipe. The outstanding feature here is the fireplace to the left, which prompted a debate about whether it was made of bricks that have become old, repurposed old bricks, fake old bricks, or even old fake bricks. I'm inclined to side with the fake old bricks, as there is also an arrangement of fake old beams in front of it. The fact that this is the most interesting feature could either encourage or discourage future visitors.

On 15^th May 2025 - rating: 6
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Alan Winfield left this review about The Swan & Talbot

The Swan & Talbot is a decent looking pub with a long frontage,the hanging baskets outside also looked quite nice.
Once inside the bar faces in a long single room which runs the width of the pub,the front area is carpeted,the left side is for drinkers and the right side seem d more of a dining area,there is a separate room up some steps to the left,the seating is pew seats and normal tables and chairs.
There were three real ales on the bar,i had a drink of Collingham Blonde which was a decent drink,the other beers were Roosters Yankee and Taylor Golden Best.
Food was being served and the TVs were showing the Olympics.
The pub was very busy with most being drinkers.
Another pleasant pub i found in Wetherby.

Pub visited 20/8/2016

On 24^th October 2016 - rating: 7
[User has posted 6113 recommendations about 6113 pubs]

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Old Boots left this review about The Swan & Talbot

Not quite a posh hotel, a former posting house on the Great North Road, a plaque outside says it was first licensed in 1678, obviously this has been a very high quality establishment but it has moved with the times and appears to have become a bit more bourgeois to meet the lower expectations of today. Entering from the main street it is a long thin room along the frontage with the bar counter against part of the back wall, the room is set out as a large restaurant, almost every customer was tucking into Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding during my late lunchtime visit. The rooms are wallpapered in red gingham and decorated with tasteful water colours. Behind the bar is another dining area. The counter holds two banks of three handpumps with local favourites Black Sheep, John Smith's and Theakstons plus the usual kegs on proprietary founts, service is not quite hotel style but neither is it local pub. Frank Sinatra was playing over the PA, he seems quite popular in Wetherby.

On 24^th July 2010 - no rating submitted
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