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The Ashton Arms, Oldham
Oldham
OL1 1PL
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 8 of 10) see review guidelines
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James Past left this review about The Ashton Arms
Not much to add to previous reviews,great choice of ales, nice old building, good service. Another one of those boozers you wish were closer to home - can not ask for more of a recommendation than that.
On 31st October 2013
- rating: 8
[User has posted 42 recommendations about 39 pubs]
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Pub SignMan left this review about The Ashton Arms
Tucked away down an inauspicious side street, close to the town’s main shopping street, the Ashton Arms is an excellent, single room ale house. The split level interior sees you enter into the lower half of the pub where banquette and standard seating arranges itself around a central brick pillar and a fantastic stone fireplace which was crackling away nicely by the time I arrived and according to the Good Beer Guide listing, is over 200 years old. A few steps lead to the upper level where the servery is located on the right hand wall. Banquette and low stool seating predominates here, with the single sofa already occupied by a very contented looking pub dog. A small selection of books were hidden away somewhat on some low shelves beneath a coat rack and a collection of beer bottles snaked its way through the room on a high shelf. Each level had its own TV screen which was showing the afternoon’s early kick off from the Premier League.
A nice row of hand pumps was dispensing Osset Citra, Holts Bitter, Greenfield Black Five, York Dino-Sore-Arse (yes, really) and Boggart Meme, plus Gwynt y Ddraig Black Dragon and Moore’s Cider. The Black Five was in great shape and I savoured every last drop. Keg stuff included Hyde’s Smooth and Kalt Pilsner whilst a board listed around 20 Belgian bottled delights. One strange feature was a series of boards mounted around the servery area and headed ‘Hall of Ales’ which seemingly listed every beer to have made an appearance in the pub since opening in October 2003, although I may have got the wrong end of the stick.
I found this pub very welcoming and it was only a lack of food (oven bottom muffins aside) that made me move on elsewhere. Whilst I enjoyed visits to other pubs in Oldham, it’s clear that this is the stand out pub in a town not renowned for good beer.
On 11th April 2013
- rating: 8
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peter ashworth left this review about The Ashton Arms
Excellent real ale pub sited in a good location in Oldham centre.It is an open plan type design with the bar on the right just up a couple of steps.I think there was 7 cask beers on when i called in and found the barman very helpful when asking for directions.Worth a visit.
On 24th February 2011
- rating: 8
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Just a quick pint, then I'm off left this review about The Ashton Arms
Nothing that special to look at, but once inside you get an immediate impression that this is a proper pub with a friendly atmosphere that will appeal to regulars and visitors alike. The split-level, single bar layout is perhaps a little awkward, but on the other hand it gives a range of seating areas to suit different sized groups. I think I counted six real ales and two draught ciders, and my pint of the local Boggart Rum Porter was first class (as is the pub as whole).
On 21st June 2010
- rating: 8
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