White Horse Inn, Canterbury

An old world pub in the picturepostcard square in Chilham. We were first in on an early spring Saturday lunchtime. A central bar serves a number of seating areas, the most attractive being the one you enter first, with the moulded beams in the ceiling and the open fire in the inglenook.So English it features on the front cover of the local OS map. Our dogs ,and those of numerous other patrons (Chilham being on both the North Downs Way and the Stour Valley Walk) were made welcome. There were a few punters in for drinks, but most were eating. Our barsnacks were heavy on the bread front, but moreish, and my pints of Adnams were up to scratch.The beer range was rather pedestrian: apart from Adnams Bitter they offered Ruddles and Flowers IPA. I’d hoped to have seen Gadds, as I gather they’d had beer from Ramsgate in the past. A perfectly good pub for a meal and a drink, but perhaps not a locals’ pub, though the clay shooting trophy on the bar might well prove me wrong. 7/10 November postscript: we passed by at the weekend to find a “for sale” sign on the wall, though the pub seems to be still open.