EGON TOASTE's Wassailled Hostelries Guide
2014
See also - https://www.facebook.com/stortfolkwassail
We're going and doing - again!
.. and thanks again to everyone who supported us. The demise
of the Great British Pub is well reported but a tad previous - go to any of
the houses below* and we guarantee a warm welcome, good beer and on occasion
some rather excellent dining.
(*parties excepted - and you'll have to join the Stansted
Club first, but it's worth it!!)
| TOUR (& Rough Location) | Tour & SIGN of the HOUSE Notes * |
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| Friday 12th | Skirts of Stortford A modest but intrepid crew reduced by Suggers laryngitis and other minor disasters nevertheless acqitted themseves with aplomb! |
£177.69 in the hat |
Jolly Brewers, Stortford
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Three Horseshoes, Spellbrook
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| The Bull, Sawbridgeworth
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The Orange Tree Sawbridgeworth |
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Hand and Crown, Sawbridgeworth
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Great Craic - Landlord's valediction | |
Rising Sun, High Wych
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Allens Green: Queens Head
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Another poub with Great Craic - and the Landlord's valediction | |
| Saturday 13th | Oak & Heath. A small but intrepid crew - great craic everywhere we went! |
£266.67 in the hat |
George  |
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Sheering Crown
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Landlord's valediction - great little company | |
The Cock Hotel, Sheering
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The White Horse, Hatfield Heath
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The Cock, Hatfield Broad Oak
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Dukes Head, Hatfield Broad Oak
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The Green Man, Takeley Street
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The Four Ashes, Takeley
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All Hail! a very kind landlady & a fitting finish .... | |
| Thursday 18th | Ash Vale - well worth a tour at any time of year | £181.65 in the hat |
The Catherine Wheel, Albury
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Standon - The Bell
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Standon Star
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We scared off the Standon Morris! | |
Nags Head Lt Hadham |
A most kind landlord - vale ! | |
Much Hadham Bull
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Hunsdon Green Man
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Wareside - the Chequers
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Wareside - White Horse
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| Friday 19th | Manuden Circular - some marvellous dining, great ale and excellent friendship |
£258.51 in the hat |
Yew Tree |
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Clavering - Fox & Hounds
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The Cricketers, Clavering
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| Liz's friends party - Glühwein and candles !!!! | ||
The Cricketers, Rickling Green
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Stansted Club
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Stansted Kings Arms Hotel
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Three Horseshoes, Hazel End
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* Notes
All our comments are good -. If you want a crit, go see CAMRA or the Good Food Guide. If people are good enough to let us in to sing & collect, that says something about them already. All the pubs have an individual character and it's up to you, the hopeful traveller, to go and see if you like their style. All we offer is a hint or two.
BEERFORDBURY SOCIAL ANNOYANCE POLICY:
Landlords
- if you don't like the look of us, we aren't going to argue if you turn us
away.
It's the licencee's right to control
visitors and assess the annoyance we might cause their patrons and we recognise
that.
We do not go where we're not wanted,
nor will we add to the annoyance by asking again next year,
unless we become aware of a change in management
(or management policy) or we're asked back.
We're not easily offended.
(however the emotional damage cause by callous rejection of our finely-honed
choral skills sometimes takes months** to overcome)
(**or even minutes)
From experience, specialist restaurants and big drinking-halls with club-type
dance sound are not set up for a wassail and if it doesn't look like the sort
of pub we could do, we don't try. See above for the sorts of pub we like.
Those who refuse because the landlord's absent or there's a live gig / special
party / important match in progress will often be re-visited next year.
When in a pub, we will very happily shut up if customers want us to - you just
have to ask. Occasionally, we get paid to shut up - we're kind of happy with
that, more drinking time & less vocal strain!
NB: Patrons are asked to refrain from setting tatters ablaze or pulling on them
and crying "Ding Dong!".
HEALTH WARNING - FFS DO NOT attempt to cuddle our Andy - at least not if you're male and / or ugly and / or dunk as a skunk and happy as a fiddler's bitch ... he may look like a big ole brown bear. That's because he is a big ole brown bear. His usual diet is heavy on well-lubricated topers, eaten raw with a dash of tabasco sauce .....
