Country pubs, proper food

Roaring fires, proper roasts and a warm welcome, in four village pubs you will want to stay in all afternoon.

Country Dining & Inns

Sunday roasts, carvery, stone-baked pizzas, steaks and pies. Tables for two, parties of forty, and a garden when the sun is out.

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Come in from the cold

Log fires lit, the roast in the oven, a pint poured before you have got your coat off. Our pubs are at their best when the weather is at its worst.

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Our pubs

The Wheatsheaf

Bow Brickhill, since 1830

Pub and grill on the edge of the woods

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The Knife & Cleaver

Houghton Conquest, since 1873

Country inn with rooms

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The Three Horseshoes

St Albans, since 1760

Our newest country pub

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Every week at our pubs

A homemade pie with mash, vegetables and a jug of gravy

Mondays

Pie Monday

A homemade pie, your choice of side, seasonal greens and gravy, plus a drink on us: £18.95, every Monday.

At The Wheatsheaf, The Old Red Lion and The Knife & Cleaver

Two stone-baked pizzas and two pints on a garden table

Tuesdays

2 for 1 pizza

Choose any two stone-baked pizzas and the lower-priced one is on us, every Tuesday.

At every pub

Two steaks on a board with chips, sides and a bottle of red wine

Wednesdays

Steak Wednesday

Two 30-day dry-aged steak meals with a free bottle of wine, from £52, every Wednesday.

At The Wheatsheaf, The Old Red Lion and The Knife & Cleaver

A steak being carved at a pub table, pints and chips alongside

Sundays, done properly

Roasts with the big Yorkshires, a carvery at the Old Red Lion, and nowhere you need to be afterwards.

  • Roasts from midday
  • Carvery at the Old Red Lion
  • A Sunday menu in every pub

Sunday tables go first. Book one and settle in.

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The Diamond Club

Over 50? Join the Diamond Club and enjoy 20% off food from the main menu, Monday to Friday, in any of our pubs.

  • 20% off main-menu food
  • Monday to Friday
  • Free to join at the bar
About the Diamond Club
Friends in their sixties laughing over drinks
Friends around a table in a warm pub snug

Celebrate with us

Birthdays, wakes, christenings, the works do. Every pub has room for a party and a buffet menu to go with it.

  • Buffet menu for the table
  • Room for a crowd
  • Ask the pub for a date