February 2025. Mansfield. 25,000 steps in Mansfield, but after just a lone pint and a pie I was already feeling knackered. As I left the Railway while an Old Boy told his amazed mates I was “a Sheffield lad, Hillsborough, come for a day out in Mansfield“. Should have had Day Out in capitals, obviously.… Continue reading NOT MUCH MATCHES MANSFIELD
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TOP 100 PUBS – THE RAILWAY INN, MANSFIELD
February 2025. Mansfield. A lot of posts from my First Big Post Funeral Trip to Mansfield coming up. “We just need to get away somewhere nice like Bath for a few nights and recover” said Mrs RM, but in truth I needed a 25,000 step slog exploring one of the UK’s least loved towns visiting… Continue reading TOP 100 PUBS – THE RAILWAY INN, MANSFIELD
FERNWOOD’S KINDER COOKIE CUP – THE DISCOVERY OF 2022
You may remember (you won’t) me mentioning the pubbing opportunities in Balderton, just south of Newark. and you may recall I mentioned a flippin’ micropub in the new village just across the A1 that we could have pre-emptively ticked that day if I’d bothered consulting What Pub. Well, Fernwood’s Brews Brothers was closed the first… Continue reading FERNWOOD’S KINDER COOKIE CUP – THE DISCOVERY OF 2022
THE MARVELS OF MANSFIELD
Mansfield Travelodge is ideally located for the pubby joys of Sutton, though a pretty dull trudge along the A38 to Mansfield itself. I like dull urban trudges. Saving the treasures of the town centre till last, I started at the Beer Guide newbie on Nottingham Road, pleasingly open at 11am for the benefit of tickers (and… Continue reading THE MARVELS OF MANSFIELD
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