Surrey Yeoman, Dorking

This is a split level GK pub with low beamed ceilings and a feel that it might genuinely be quite old. Although it has been opened out to a fashion it still has a sense of three separate areas, helped by the need to step up and down as you move about. Two entrances, one gives level access to the bar, using the other on the left you are greeted by a large inglenook fireplace with chopped stacked logs. The different areas have a mixture of finishes, the bar area has a stone flagged floor, other sections are boarded, carpeted and quarry tiled. Standard seating plus a few armchairs and bucket seats. As well as the beams and posts, some exposed brick walls and columns add character, décor is the usual framed local prints including several of nearby Pippbrook, an old house now home to Mole Valley Council plus Leith Hill tower. Food is served, there are menus on the tables and chalkboards advertise cheap meal and drink combos. Greene King but with a guest ale policy, IPA, OSH, 1799 ( a porter) plus on this occasion Thwaites Wainwright (£3.75). There were signs to a beer garden at the back but this was not an option on a miserable drizzly day. The first town centre pub you encounter if walking from the main stations across the A24, an ok spot for a first pint of the day.

Quite an attractive Greene King pub, which whilst it has been substantially refurbished there is still some character inside. The original multi-room layout has been partially opened out, leaving various different seating areas (some up or down a couple of steps). Four real ales on handpump - IPA, Abbot, Rocking Rudolph and Okells Goodwill as a guest (£3.20 and a bit cloudy but tasted OK).

This is the first pub you come to upon entering the town centre from the A24 roundabout on the esst side of town. A pleasant pub that has changed inside a few times over the past 10 or so years. Was a Hogshead pub for a while. Now has quite a few large TV screens around it these days but there is a reasonable range of ales on, the ones we tried were well kept.

Very nice pub, real ale on sale 5 pumps. Wood interior which steps between areas, but does have disable access to the bar. Very friendly staff. worth a visit.