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Requested be closed with reason - Temporary: Currently surrounded by scaffolding and fences.

Queens Head Hotel, Ambleside

Main Street
Hawkshead
Postal town: Ambleside
LA22 0NS
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Reviews of Queens Head Hotel (Average Rating: 6 of 10) Add Review see review guidelines

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Will Larter left this review about Queens Head Hotel

This is a lovely old inn with remnants of some original features. The dominant impression on entering was the smell of fried fish, but I suppose this is something that we get used to after a while. The beers are all from Robinsons: Dizzy Blonde, Cumbria Way and Patterd'ale. The latter is 4.2% and presumably based on one of the former Hartleys beers, though I can't find any information about it. I drank it and my only notes made at the time were that it was cheap for the area, at £2 for a half.

Date of visit: 3rd March 2022

On 26th August 2022 - rating: 6
[User has posted 3745 recommendations about 3482 pubs]

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Will Larter left this review about Queens Head Hotel

It was quite busy when I was here one Monday lunchtime in January. There's a dining room to the rear, and a small area near the bar, to the right upon entering. I found my way to a small room to the left, with rather odd tartan wallpaper. There is wood panelling and low beams throughout, but rather than playing up to the traditional Lakeland pub image which would seem to fit this place to a T, there are pretensions to hotel status, which I find off-putting. One symptom of this was the over-loud lounge bar-type music, which I could definitely have done without.

There were three hand pumps on the bar, two ales being available: Marstons Double Drop and Hartleys Cumbrian Way, probably two of the most anonymous beers you could find around these parts.

On 17th February 2012 - rating: 5
[User has posted 3745 recommendations about 3482 pubs]

This pub features in the following crawls:
Central Lake District by bus (winter) by Will Larter
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Pub location see interactive map of local area
Map location corrected by Will Larter
Windermere, 6.28 miles, 2 hr 1 min walk (show)
Staveley, 9.92 miles, 3 hr 11 min walk (show)
Burneside (Cumbria), 12.8 miles, 4 hr 7 min walk (show)
Latest updates View all updates for Queens Head Hotel, Hawkshead
4th Mar 2024, 16:20
Request to mark pub as closed by Will Larter approved
 
4th Mar 2024, 16:20
Request to mark pub as closed submitted by Will Larter, with included notes: Temporary: Currently surrounded by scaffolding and fences.

Pub Details

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  • Accommodation : Yes last updated 26 August 2022 by Will Larter
  • Dog Friendly : Yes last updated 26 August 2022 by Will Larter
  • Hot Food : Yes last updated 29 July 2013 by Will Larter
  • Micropub : No last updated 20 January 2024 by paulof horsham
  • Real Ale : Yes last updated 29 July 2013 by Will Larter
  • WiFi : Yes last updated 26 August 2022 by Will Larter
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