I was blessed to be able to visit this wonderful, historic stone pub again on a beautiful late winter’s day last week. A pub since 1776, the interior of these two former adjoining cottages remains little changed.
Two lounges plus a fossil museum and large outside seating area are served via two hatches, one dispensing pies and pasties and the other providing a range of real ales on gravity dispense, ciders and perries (including their own creations) and a broad selection of alcoholic/non-alcoholic beverages.
This is a pub that one never wants to leave and offers up a huge range of events for the local community including live music, stone carving, summer fayres and many beer, cider and cheese festivals. A magnificent pub, ‘a true gem in the heart of Dorset’, it continues to ignore the ravages of modernisation that blight so many pubs currently.
Visit their website at http://www.squareandcompasspub.co.uk
Beer Sommelier Kew 