Swindon & North Wiltshire CAMRA

CAMRA has been campaigning for real ale, pubs and drinkers' rights since 1971. It has a large national membership of 100,000. Each member belongs to an individual CAMRA Branch in the UK - like this one.

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Good Beer Guide 2011

Yes, 2011 is correct. We will soon be conducting surveys in the Swindon and North Wilts area with a view to proposing 17 pubs from the area to be included in the 2011 Guide. Please contact Swindon and North Wilts Branch if you have a pub in mind that should be considered for the 2011 Good Beer Guide.
This guide is a long way off, so if you have not got the current indispensable guide to all the great pubs in the UK, go and visit the national CAMRA web site to order your copy.

Crown Inn - Pewsey

This is one of our Good Beer Guide pubs. It recently started a one barrel micro brewery - World's End Ales, based on the name of this part of Pewsey.
The beers are only available in the Crown, so phone the pub on 01672 562653 for more information or just pay it a visit.

Town Local - Wootton Bassett

The Town Local opend again on Tuesday, 8 December. If you want to find out more, pay it a visit or phone 01793 852114.

Swindon Beer Festival 2009

Swindon CAMRA has had another successful and hugely enjoyable event at Swindon STEAM. Over the three days just under 2000 people attended the Swindon Beer Festival and enjoyed over 100 real ales and various ciders and perries. There was no suggestion of any alcohol related problems. Real Ale events do not produce Lager Louts.

Will There Be Archers Beers From Swindon Again?

The gates shut at this local landmark brewery on Friday 20 March 2009.

The remains were bought from the administrator.

Since then everything removable like barrels and brewing equipment appears to have been removed. An image of vultures picking over the bones comes to mind. The new owners in name do not seem to be interested in keeping up this tradition of local Swindon ales - RIP Archers beers.
Good quality ales will once again become just part of the memory of those, who were fortunate enough to actually taste them.

Local pub database

There is an online beer and pub guide covering this branch. It contains around 300 pubs, bars and hotels; about 30 of these do not exist any more; they are in the database for historical reasons. 50 odd don't serve real ale and some are currently closed. This leaves about 200 pubs that probably serve real ale. We try to visit every pub as often as we can.
Have a look at Swindon Area Beer & Pub Guide.
Please help us to keep it up to date by completing a pub survey when you visit a pub in the area. If there has been no change to the pub, just let us know the date of your visit - no need for a survey. You can print or download the form as a pdf file. Pub Survey Form.pdf (10kb).
Here are the pubs that have not had a survey for three years:

Bell, Bath Road, West Overton, Marlborough, SN8 1QD
Brown Jack, 1 Priors Hill (off A4361), Wroughton, Swindon, SN4 0RT
Dolphin Hotel, Rodbourne Road, Swindon, SN2 2AF
Horse & Jockey, 15 Gosditch, Ashton Keynes, SN6 6NZ
Ivy Hotel, Moormead Road, Wroughton, Swindon, SN4 9BY
Old Nick, 61 Station Rd, Wootton Bassett, SN4 7DS
Outside Chance, 71 High Street, Manton, Marlborough, SN8 4HW
Rat Trap, Highworth Road, Stratton St Margaret, Swindon, SN3 4TF
Red Lion, 59 High Street, Wootton Bassett, SN4 7AQ
Riffs Bar, 26 Greatfield, Swindon SN4 8EQ
Three Tuns, High Street (A4361), Wroughton, Swindon, SN4 0SA
Village Tavern, Village Centre, Toothill, Swindon, SN5 8DH
White Hart, High Street, Burbage SN8 3AA
White Hart, High Road, Ashton Keynes, SN6 6NX
Who'd a Thought It, Lockeridge, Marlborough, SN8 4EL

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