Eat and drink · Chipping Sodbury
The Horseshoe, Chipping Sodbury
A real-ale pub on Chipping Sodbury High Street, in a Grade II listed building of about 1600; CAMRA's Bristol and District Pub of the Year 2024.
The town's beer pub: an ever-changing range of real ales, a fire in winter and a busy calendar of music, quizzes and beer tastings. Come for a pint, not for dinner, and expect sport on the screens.
- Good: CAMRA Bristol and District Pub of the Year 2024
- Good: Changing real ales; in the Good Beer Guide for the last five years, by its own account
- Good: Grade II listed building of about 1600, with an open fire
- Good: Live music, quizzes and beer tastings
- Worth knowing: No food menu on its website
- Worth knowing: Live sport on TV can make it loud
About
The Horseshoe is a pub at 2 High Street in Chipping Sodbury, in a Grade II listed building that Historic England's list dates to the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, though the pub puts it in the fifteenth. The pub keeps a cellar sink said to be over 500 years old, has an open fire on cold days and has been renovated around its old features.
Beer is the reason to come. Its real ales change all the time, with local beers such as Uley's Pigs Ear and the Flying Monk's Wingman among them, plus ciders, wines and a cocktail list. It says it has been in CAMRA's Good Beer Guide for the last five years and holds five-star Cask Marque accreditation. CAMRA's Bristol and District branch named it Pub of the Year for 2024, and it was runner-up for 2026.
It is a lively pub rather than a quiet one. There is live music, charity quizzes and discos, TNT Sports on the screens and a run of beer events: in 2026 these included an Oktoberfest on 3 October and talk-and-tasting evenings with a beer sommelier, booked through its website. Its own site publishes no food menu, so eat elsewhere and come for a drink. It opens seven days a week: noon to 11pm from Monday to Thursday, 11am to midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, and noon to 8pm on Sundays.
Parking is free along the High Street. For a daytime meal, the Hamptons deli café is along the same street.
Opening hours and season
| Monday | 12:00 to 23:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 12:00 to 23:00 |
| Wednesday | 12:00 to 23:00 |
| Thursday | 12:00 to 23:00 |
| Friday | 11:00 to 00:00 |
| Saturday | 11:00 to 00:00 |
| Sunday | 12:00 to 20:00 |
Open seven days a week, until 8pm on Sundays.
The details
- Features
- Real ale · Open fire · Live music · Bar
- Awards
- CAMRA Bristol and District Pub of the Year (2024)
- Cask Marque
- CAMRA Bristol and District Pub of the Year, runner-up (2026)
- History
- Grade II listed building of the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century
- Parking
- Free parking along the High Street, and two free car parks off Wickwar Road.
- Without a car
- First's Y6 bus from Bristol, Bristol Parkway and Yate stops at the Clock on the High Street; Yate station is under 2 miles (about 3km) away by road.
Photos
Real ales on the bar 
The front door 
The courtyard garden 
Handpumps on the bar
Location
Places to stay nearby
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Hobbs House Bakery, Chipping Sodbury 0.1 km away
- The Hamptons Deli Café, Chipping Sodbury 0.1 km away
- The Moda House 0.1 km away
- The Squire 0.2 km away
Sights nearby
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St John the Baptist, Chipping Sodbury
Sight · Church · Chipping Sodbury
Chipping Sodbury's Grade I parish church off Wickwar Road, dedicated in 1284 and rebuilt larger in the fifteenth century, with a tower over 30m tall holding eight bells, a fan-vaulted pulpit built into the arcade, St Katherine's chapel and a thirteenth-century font.
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St John the Baptist, Old Sodbury
Sight · Church · Chipping Sodbury
Old Sodbury's hilltop church of Norman origin, on the Cotswold Way above the village, with a fifteenth-century tower and two rare knights' effigies: one carved in wood in the fourteenth century, one in stone about 1240. Grade II*.
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Sodbury Camp hill fort
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Chipping Sodbury
An Iron Age hill fort with two wide-spaced ramparts on the Cotswold edge above Old Sodbury, where Edward IV camped on his way to the battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. A scheduled monument, crossed by the Cotswold Way and our stile-free circuit from the village.
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Horton Camp hill fort
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Chipping Sodbury
A small Iron Age hill fort on a spur of the Cotswold edge above Horton, north of Old Sodbury: one rampart 3m high on the plateau side and steep natural slopes on the rest, never excavated. A scheduled monument beside the Cotswold Way.