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Selden Arms, Worthing
Worthing
BN11 2DB
Reviews (Current Rating Average: 8 of 10) see review guidelines
Cask Fan left this review about Selden Arms
Usually 5 beers on cask with almost always a bitter and a stout/porter. Usually 10 kegs spread across a range of styles. Prices are very reasonable for a town centre location. Belgian beer bottles in the fridge. Quiet during the midweek afternoon session but gets busy at weekends. There are stools at the bar and so can suffer from bar blockers at busy times. Sells Tayto crisps and Monster Munch!
On 16th March 2024
- rating: 8
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paulof horsham left this review about Selden Arms
The Selden was recently refurbished & reopened by the team behind Brighton's Hole In The Wall, and it's definitely improved, with a much brighter feel than before. Like the sister pub, beers (6 cask and numerous keg) are listed on the blackboard, including the beer style, with the pumps unadorned and the keg taps discreetly located under the bar top. Of course, the disadvantage of the lack of pump clips is that the guv'nor occasionally has to traipse across the room to update the beer list. But that's a minor quibble. It's a good pub made better.
On 17th April 2023
- rating: 8
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Cask Fan left this review about Selden Arms
Reopened in Easter following a revamp. Now much cleaner and brighter, the old dark wood has been stripped down and is now much lighter and additional wood panelling added on the walls. The whole pub now seems much lighter and spacious. Six hand pubs and many keg fonts, the beers available are now listed on a large blackboard on the walls, a welcome addition. Probably some work still to be done, e.g. the gents toilet. The key message is that the pub has retained its character as a basic boozer serving good beer.
Opening hours: 12:00 to 23:00 every day
On 8th April 2023
- rating: 8
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Cask Fan left this review about Selden Arms
The pub is moving to new ownership and is being refurbished. Until this happens it is temporarily closed. I will post more details when I know them
On 2nd January 2023
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Cask Fan left this review about Selden Arms
Hasn't changed much over the years which is a good thing for a traditional local. Usually six cask ales on the bar normally including a stout or porter. Dog but not child friendly. Currently provides a delivery service for phone orders. Branch CAMRA pub of year for 2022.
On 2nd March 2022
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paulof horsham left this review about Selden Arms
The Selden is much changed since my last appearance, which turns out to have been some 8 years ago. The carpets have gone, to be replaced by floorboards and the bar seems more open than I remember.
4 ales on the bar (3 local, including Downlands and Brighton Bier). They've also got into craft keg, at reasonable prices too, from £4.80 per pint. It's popular with its regulars, but could really do with a few more in the place, not least to help dissipate the musty damp feel. Hopefully, Saturday evenings are busier than my mid-afternoon visit.
On 1st March 2020
- rating: 7
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Moby Duck left this review about Selden Arms
A right proper boozer this one, It had a bit of a timeslip feel and appeared to be set somewhere in the 1970's but the beer choice was bang up to date with offerings from Burning Sky, Vibrant Forest,Pamona Island and Salopian along with a nod to tradition with some Harveys and Palmers.
Definitely a locals pub but very welcoming all the same. Top Notch.
On 3rd August 2019
- rating: 8
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Pub SignMan left this review about Selden Arms
A mainstay of Worthing’s beer scene for many years now, the Selden Arms is a classic free house on the fringes of the town centre, next to Worthing Hospital. It’s a simple, single room bar with a lopsided U-shaped layout which, judging by the two front doors, was previously a two bar set-up. The left hand side of the pub has padded banquettes and standard chairs under a high shelf crammed with old beer bottles. To the rear is a darts area with a couple of high tables and stools to one side and the board to the other. The pub seems to specialise in Belgian beer, so it’s no great surprise to find large collection of old Belgian beer bottles and crates dotted around the place as well as some canvases covered with beer bottle labels and framed collections of bottle caps lining the walls. There are also a few Belgian art prints on show, which give the place a nice retro, continental feel. The tongue and groove servery runs opposite the mid part of the front wall, where there is enough room to squeeze in a couple of small tables and stools before you reach the right hand side of the pub, which looked like a cosier spot, although it had been completely taken over by a bunch of folk musicians, making it tricky to have a proper look around. One feature that I couldn’t fail to notice though was the impressive collection of pump clips that covered the ceiling throughout the whole pub.
This was proof, should it be needed, of the pub’s commitment to real ale and the six hand pumps were offering a choice of Palmers 200, Great Heck Treasure IPA, Fallen Acorn IPA, Dorking Pilcrow Pale, Kissingate Powder Blue and Vibrant Forest Summerlands. The landlord seemed like a very friendly chap and he served me a very nice pint of the Treasure IPA which was a nice way to round out a great crawl around Worthing. There was a menu on my table running to countless pages, which listed all of the bottled Belgian beers available along with some helpful bits explaining the various styles and techniques common in Belgian brewing. There was a good crowd in and a lively atmosphere resulted, even though the musicians had hung up their instruments by the time I arrived.
This is a quality pub that will appeal to anyone looking for some interesting, well kept ales. The pub is very much in the traditional mould, offering a nice counterpoint to the town’s burgeoning micropub scene. I’m not sure why it took me so long to check this place out, as it is clearly up there with the best Worthing has to offer.
On 3rd July 2017
- rating: 8
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Malden man left this review about Selden Arms
This is a proper decent pub, a sort of J-shaped carpeted room with regular style seating at mismatched chairs, a busy dartboard to the longer rear side, loads of stuff on the walls and shelves, photos, Bell's whisky "bells", gargoyle figures, cartwheel over the fireplace, the ceiling and upper walls are literally covered in beermats from those passing through. On the pumps were Flack Manor Black Jack and also Flack Catcher, Great Heck Chopper, Vibrant Forest Citra, Franklin's Resurrection, Fallen Acorn IPA Expedition, and South Down's Apple Cider. Friday night is curry night. Otherwise through the week there are hot proper pies at £4 and £6.50 with a pint. The prelims for the FA Cup final were on, but not noisily, I liked this pub, recommended to me during my excursion, certainly remains on the revisit list.
On 28th May 2017
- rating: 8
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Quinno _ left this review about Selden Arms
A basic U-shaped boozer located opposite the gasometer. A bit worn round the edges and could do with a spruce-up here and there. Polished brass bar top with tongue-and-groove front fittings caught the eye, as did a number of black and white pictures of old Worthing and a dart board. Sports TV on quietly. Decent atmosphere inside. Four ales on, Kent Gold (a little lackadaisical), Oakleaf Whole Hearted, Palmers 200 and Downlands Pele (warm and flatlining). For a GBG pub on a (admittedly hot) Saturday afternoon I was pretty disappointed that I should have had one of the Meantime kegs for coolness. Perhaps I was unlucky?
On 20th July 2014
- rating: 6
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