The Turks Head, Sowerby Bridge

Traditional backstreet pub which is very limited for space inside, especially when it is packed. A decent range of beers but it really was a bit too intimate for me in here, late in a long day. All the same, great to see a lively boozer like this.

A stone built back street pub located next to the river there’s a handy footbridge nearby giving a shortcut to the station. Inside it’s one squarish room with banquette seating the counter over to the right and with five pulls of local and beyond beers, usual keg offering. Slightly strangely decorated with the odd pigs head nic nak. There’s a multi level riverside terrace with seating and heating. I’ve been before but the beer was awful, now it’s changed hands the beer and service is much improved.

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A proper back street beer house, and seemingly well used by its regulars, a group of whom, surrounded by their luggage, were celebrating their return to Sowerby Bridge from apparently sunnier climes. The bar, at the right hand end of this multi-roomed pub, has five real ales on and was tended by a young man with his long hair covered by a woolly hat. I had a half of Eagles Feather from local Eagles Crag brewery, and when that went down well, another half of Durham Brewery's Fair Dinkum, whose name hinted to me that it probably featured Australian hops; the barman was unfamiliar with the phrase - what do they teach them in schools these days? Probably the best of the conventional pubs we visited (we left town before we could try the 5pm openers).