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  • Host:
  • Stuart & Elaine Freeman
  • Where:
  • High Street
  • Wootton Bassett
  • Wiltshire SN4 7AB
  • Telephone:
  • (01793) 854814
  • Facilities:
  • Garden Or Patio
  • Satellite TV
  • Pub Food
  • Overnight Accommodation
  • Accommodation
  • Map:
  • Click Here for a Map to The Curriers Arms, Wootton Bassett

The Curriers Arms, Wootton Bassett

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As pubs go, there is none more popular or friendly than the Curriers Arms, Wootton Bassett, just outside Swindon.

Your hosts, Steve and Ellen, have a deserved reputation for offering the finest Arkells Ales, unbeatable pub lunches - especially on Sunday, where the roast has to be tasted to be believed! - and first class accommodation.

Their beer garden boasts a great area for kids to play with a covered decking area for enjoying a drink or meal.

- All Sports Channels
- Lunches Served 12 - 2pm
- Sunday Lunches served 1 - 4pm
- Overnight Accomodation
- 3 Twin Rooms and 1 Single
- Large Beer Garden

Like its Arkell's counterpart, the Borough Arms, on the other side of Wootton Bassett High Street, The Curriers Arms is an extremely old building - so old that no records exist to confirm when it was built. But we at least know that it was called The New Inn before it received its present name.

Like many pubs in the 19th century, The Curriers Arms was a home brew pub, but, unusually, it was mineral waters that were produced on the premises, not beer.

In 1894 The Curriers Arms was owned by the short-lived Beaufort Brewery in Wootton Bassett and from 1897 to 1951 it was the property of the Osborne Brewery of Yeovil.

It then passed to Arkell's who extensively modernised it in 1953 - presumably to the liking of the pub's resident ghost. The Curriers is one of several Arkell's pubs whose landlords are convinced it is haunted.