The Old Gate Inn

Your Invited !!
Spring and Summer entertainment at "The Old Gate".
Look forward to seeing you.

"The Marquee" a countryside venue, located in the grounds of "The Old Gate" is now available for bookings of "Private and Special Events" (Receptions, Special Parties, Group functions etc,etc,).

Contact 07818 060943 for further details.

We're pleased and proud to announce!!!

We didn’t write this, but agree with the tone.

To all, please read:

This week yet another blow was dealt to us all. Although better than last year it seems likely that Christmas will not again be as usual.
I'm sure we are not the only pub in the last 24 hours flooded with Christmas party cancellations and doubt for the festive period.
So just a quick reminder of just how hospitality works this time of year.
Pubs are a different animal to those that existed 50 years ago. The times of blokes and women rolling up each night for several pints and gins have unfortunately gone. Between healthier lifestyles, tv, internet and family the good old pub has had to adapt over the last few decades, and we have. Offering food, welcoming children and changing the way we operate to fit into modern life. But this, even without plague, is very weather dependent and seasonal.
Usually, pubs get rammed in December. Tis the season! We use this money to compensate for the "dead period". If you know this term you work in a pub or restaurant, if not in layman's terms its mid January until Easter. During normal years this is the ghost time, dust bowl! Between people doing dry January, joining a gym, running out of money or just generally hating other people, pubs make little to no profit. We have our regulars but until the sun comes out its hard work. So we fill up the coffers at Christmas and grin and bear it.
Although it feels different this year.
Of course the PM will tell you that the new rules don't affect hospitality, he still had a party last year...but they do. If you're not going to the office you're not passing a pub. If nobody is at the office there's no Christmas party. If the press say you must be scared, the majority will be scared.
But there is no furlough, grants or fall back this year. We are battle hardened, but its a different battle.
Please stay safe, order free tests and use them, but also resume your lives. The survival of your local pub depends on you. A quick pint or meal with the family secures jobs and age old institutions.
You are so lucky to live in an area with such a diversity of public houses and restaurants. All different but uniquely worth a visit. The region is truly blessed.
So I not only make this plea on behalf of myself, but also of the other hard working landlords in the area.
If you live in the area try to visit at least one pub over the Christmas season.

British Institute of Innkeeping (BII)

Good investment. We sanitise the whole pub every evening when closed. Ozone kills all bacteria and viruses 100%