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location:
address:
95 New Square, S40 1AH
phone:
01246 273641
nearest station:
Chesterfield 
(720m)
how to find it:
From Chesterfield station, walk up the hill into the town, turn right when you get to the Crooked Spire and walk into the market. The pub will be on your right on the higher side of the market.
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At first glance, the Market's a pub solidly aimed at the real ale drinker: there are nine hand pumps with regularly changing guest beers (we particularly enjoyed the Long John Silver), but it's also a place for the locals. Named, logically enough, after the famous, bustling market in which it sits, the pub has a continuous in-and-outflow of shoppers, traders and "colourful characters" during the day and, as well as providing them with pretty decent beer, there's home-cooked food and plenty of other kinds of drink on offer. The interior may be fake olde-worlde, but that doesn't spoil the atmosphere at all. We didn't stay around for an evening session, so we've no idea what it's like then, but, given the pub's pretty much on Chesterfield's Yates's/Wetherspoon/student-pub circuit typical of UK towns, we're not especially hopeful. We could, however be mistaken.
21/5/2008
real ale - regular guest beers
small TV
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