Everything British, including the tonic

The Pub.

The Farmer’s Dog, which is five miles down the road and not on this walk in any honest geographical sense. It is here because it is where the whole thing ends up, and because the rule it runs on is the most interesting rule on the estate.

At: 3.4 miles
Ingredients: All British
Telephone: There is not one

The whole route Watch it live

On the walk

What is here.

Every ingredient on that menu is from these islands. Not mostly, not wherever practical — every one. It is the whole proposition of the place, and it is the reason there is no lemon in the gin and tonic and no pepper on the table.

That rule is harder than the sixteen-mile rule at the shop, because a shop can decline to stock a thing and a kitchen has to build a plate out of what remains. Removing citrus from a British pub menu takes out about a third of the obvious answers.

Tables release on the first of the month for the whole of the following month, online only. There is no telephone. There never was, and the reason is written down rather than implied.

The record

What happened here.

The pub was bought in 2024 and opened that August, reported at around a million pounds before a refurbishment that nobody has published a figure for. It was Chapter 26 — Pubbing — and the production files called it exactly that.

The garden bars are walk-in and always have been. The restaurant is not, and pretending otherwise only produces a queue of disappointed people who have driven a long way.

At
3.4 miles: Ingredients
All British: Telephone
There is not one

How it was made

The arithmetic

What it costs to keep.

The Pub

Reported purchase: About £1 millionReported, not filed. Treat it as a press figure.
Refurbishment: Not publishedAnd we are not going to guess at it.
Ingredients from these islands: All of themWithout exception, which is the hard part.
Telephone: NoneDeliberately, and the reason is written down.

Costs are indicative ranges for work of this kind in this part of the country, not invoices. Where a figure is a published estate number rather than a general one, it says so in the row.

On the walk