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location:
address:
31 High Street, HA5 5PJ
phone:
0871 984 4732*
* calls cost 10p/minute, click here for more about 0871 numbers.
nearest station:
Pinner 
(180m) - zone 5
how to find it:
Exit station, turn left down the hill and then right on to Bridge Street. Talk the first on your right onto the High Street (the church is at the top of the road) and you'll see the pub on your left.
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On the go since Charles I was on the throne, this is the sort of country inn you might not imagine surviving within the M25. Then again, this is Pinner we're talking about. One of the few parts of the kingdom to house a shop purely for the sale of ladies golf apparel, this is still the comfortably well-off part of Metroland so beloved of John Betjeman. One imagines Betjeman at home in this pub: its wooden interior and cheery punters feel like they've come straight out of one of his poems (the one called 'The Village Inn' to be precise). There's still a strong community spirit to the area (amateur dramatics in the village hall, annual summer fair etc) and you sense the pub is the centre of it all. Hence the only concession to 21st century pub life is in the communal form of a pub quiz: there's none of your disrupting Sky TV nor jukeboxes here. Decent beer (served in handled glasses if you ask nicely) and old fashioned bar snacks are the order of the day, but it's the atmosphere of the place that you really come here for. It's the sort of timeless pub that will turn even the most lairy of drinker into a contemplative old soak. Which is perhaps why we like it so much. If the thought of travelling north to Zone 5 doesn't induce a bleeding nose, brave the vagaries of the Metropolitan line and visit it. A classic.
4/3/2004
beer garden
quiz night Tuesday
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