please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
http://stonch.blogspot.com/2008/06/square-and-compass-near-france.html On Stonch's visit the beer did not exactly stand out ! A terribly over rated pub.
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Best pub in the UK.....great beers and cider. The veiw is breath taking. Strange mix of locals, grockles, hikers and hippies. Lovely inside too. Food is basic (i.e pasties) but who cares. Perfect for an evening drink or to quench your thirst after a hard walk.
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Visited 24 May 08. Well off the beaten track but worth it. We had visited in Nov 07, and sat outside and watched the various wildlife go trotting past. This second visit in warmer times, meant that the wildlife was confined to many walkers.
The real ale was in excellent condition, and is served from an old fashioned serving hatch rather than a conventional bar. I believe that the pub has been in the same family for over 100 years, and if this is true, I hope they hold on to it for another 100, as this pub is in a time warp of its own. Lovely.
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Lunchtime on a Saturday saw my visit out of curiosity more than anything else. £4.80 return for the 15 minute bus journey from Swanage(KERCHINGGGGG!!!!) that gave 1 and a half hours drinking.
Wasn't busy but the bar queue was a bit chaotic. Barwoman was overzealously shouting at people as to were they being served. I'd hate to be here in the height of the season. Ale was tip top though-Ringwood Best,Hopback Crop Circle,Iceni and 1 other that escapes me. Hecks Kingston Black couldn't be left undrunk. Saw Yeovil brewery ale in the "cellar" room awaiting its turn to be unleashed. The pastie me mate had looked good and trade in this department seemed efficient enough. Heinz ketchup and HP sauce was a good touch(far better than the usual bitter pub branded shite!)
Place was full of 50 somethings with those pokey walking sticks wearing beige cotton shorts,cotton polo shirts and bum bags(is this the regulation dress for people walking round the country??),men with rancid varicose veins and women with nipples prtoruding from saggy tits.
Visited the "museum" but found it didn't really fit in with the pub,I'd prefer to see the room as somewhere to sup ale. But that's only my opinion. Can see where all the ratings come from though,the clientelle are those who are all computer literate.
Not my cup of tea,but great beer and cider.
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We had a great pint and cornish pastie there yesterday. Don't let the queue for the bar put you off, it is only one person wide@
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I just love it!
Great beer & massive Cider selection. As old & original pub you will ever see. Excellent place to put up yer toes after a yomp along the coastal path or a session rock climbing.
Fun loving & attentive landlords & staff.
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a truly great little pub.like other reviewers say its like stepping back in time. very unspoilt and well worth a visit.everytime we go we meet somebody nice to talk to and there are always some great characters enjoying a brew.highly recommended but dont tell too many people.
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This is one special pub. Nothing else is quite like it! The beer & cider is superb. The pub is charming, and the attached museum excellent!
Very nice pasties that fit in with the rustic appeal of this place.
10/10
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Didn't try the food, but the cider was very good. A nice selection of real ale and loads of ciders.
The location is brilliant, with superb views and friendly chickens!
Pasties smelt lovely! Very friendly locals too.
Phmoo - 11 Apr 2008 21:19 |
I'm not sure it's possible to describe the magnificence of this pub - you just have to visit and be drawn into its charms. Very rustic, open fires, beer from the keg, pasties are the only food and there is a little museum attached. It looks like nothing has changed for hundreds of years and I hope it never does.
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A real gem of a pub, full of character and an excellent range of ales on offer served from the cask. Interesting museum of local fossils incorporated in the pub. Great value pasties as well.
Floyd - 10 Mar 2008 16:17 |
Unlike the previous reviewer I can't say this is my all time favourite pub, but it's damn close. It's near perfect at what it is, an alehouse, remote, old, unchanginging if not unchanged, welcoming. I was there, this Thursday lunchtime, it was as if I'd stepped into a timewarp. Three cask beers and a 'real' lager (Duchy Original), all served straight from the barrel.
My rating 9. It might have been 10 but it's appeal is probably limited, and perfection, they say, is out of the reach of man.
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My favourite pub in the world - perfect, what more can I say? Just wish it was a bit nearer.
Well worth traveling to for the Beer, Pumpkin and Scarecrow festival in November.
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I love Slerpy's reviews. He's clearly living in the dark ages. I reckon the staff are rude to him because he's never left a tip in his life.
Personally, love the place and will be heading back as soon as possible.
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I have known this pub for years and it's rep is huge, i concider this place to be my spiritual local and would move next door if i could afford it.
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I have set myself the challenge of spending the rest of my days in pursuit of a pub that surpasses the Square and Compass. I fully expect to fail in my quest but it is a noble and fulfilling cause. If for some bizarre reason you are in any doubt as to the absolute supremacy of this wonderful pub, after reading these reviews, go visit for yourself.
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Lovely pub with lovlier views. An added bonus is that I couldn't use my phone as it had found a French service provider.
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The best pub in England? Obviously feelings about it are uninfluenced by the fact that almost everyone who visits is nice and relaxed, on holiday and is in there after just completing a very nice walk.
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I AM WRITING IN CAPS BECAUSE I AM VERY CHILDISH! JUST TO ANNNOY THAT OLD GIT SLURPY WHO HAS PROBABLY BEEN BARRED FOR DRINKING ALL THE ZIDER.
I RECKON THIS IS A REALLY LOVELY OLD PUB AND WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE DATES OF SQUARE DAY, PUMPKIN DAY AND ANY OTHER DAY THAT SOMETHING IS HAPPENING HERE. IF YOU KNOW PLEASE EMAIL ME AT poppysummerlands@aol.com
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Usually a good selection of beers,although you often find that one you like has disappeared a week later.Usually a good atmosphere,but it's too often overrun with posho's and 2nd homeowners and it's as good a place as any to discover how staggeringly arrogant and rude National Trust members can be.Fires in winter,great views on fine days,friendly staff and homemade pasties.Very busy in summer and weekends,which means you usually have to queue behind someone who's ordering for a party of eight,but the service is fast and friendly.Best avoided on pumpkin festival weekend when you can queue for 40 minutes just to get a drink. Great place to stop if you're on a walk.
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If you've never been you really have to try this. Got to agree with Richardandtong. Been going here off and on for years because it never fails to pacify my troubled mind. Not sure what axe slerpy has to grind (in fairness can't please all the people all the time) but it's immensely hard to fault this place for it's charm, character, setting, staff, beer, cider, pasties, music events, feeling of antiquity, etc. etc. It does not take itself to seriously and that's what contributes to it's lovely atmosphere.
It's clearly the heart of it's community for very good reason, it feels like home and I only manage to get there about 6 times a year because I live a distance away.
It could easily be used as an example for a lot of the chav palaces in Bournemouth for what a pub should aspire to. A hearty 10/10.
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The best pub I have found in this lifetime. It overdoses on character and the setting is truely outstanding. No carpet, no meals, no jukebox, no chavs. Flagstones, history, real fires, excellent rotation of real ales, large choice of ciders, live music and festivals ranging from stone carving to pumpkin growing. Forget your mobile phone though you may connect with the France! There is also a fantastic mini museum featuring locally found fossils and items from shipwrecks as well as items from Roman and Iron age. The pub has been in the same family for over 100 years and is well managed by Kevin. I now live over 100 miles away but still go! Live music a plenty, this pub needs its own website! Legendary!
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It is babyish to USE CAPITAL LETTERING !!!! The service here is dreadful, the prices are the most expensive on earth, a long way of the beaten track , a waste of time, money and effort.
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First went to this pub around 40 years ago, and it has changed little since, other than to move on to the next generation of the Newman family. Highly recommended whilst you are there is a game of Shove Ha'penny. There is usually a standard board for the use of visitors, and a lovingly polished competition board for the local experts.
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I LOVE THIS PUB
IT HAS A GOOD SELECTION OF REAL ALES AND CIDERS AND HAS A COOL GARDEN WITH SEATING MADE OUT OF STONE CARVINGS
REALLY NICE WALKS AROUND HERE TOO
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHEN SQUARE DAY IS:
THANKS POPPY
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ec1 you are most correct.
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ec1 you are most correct.
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ec1 you are most correct.
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Best pub in England.
Fact.
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I discovered this pub many moons ago by sheer chance. I try to get here as often as I can (not often enough, however!). The place has a character and charm all of its own and the location is wonderful. The beer is always good and the pasties superb straight out of the oven. The Newman family have a great marketing scheme here at The Square and Compass that must be the envy of many other pubs. Do nothing much to the place for about 70 years and time creates something unique and people will continue to flock to see it and enjoy it. Brilliant! This is a 'must see and experience before you die' place and may it continue in its present form for generations to come. As the traditional English pub continues to vanish at an alarming rate, The Square and Compass should be preserved as a national treasure for future generations to see what sadly has been squandered and lost elsewhere.
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Great Saturday evening. With the exception of Ringwood Best, the beers were all over 6 percent so I drank the beautifully clear Farmers Medium Cider. Good band on but where were the audience? Three of us from the Midlands, a Scot and no locals, there were actually more band members. A few more turned up for the second half but this was curtailed to about forty minutes due to the lateness of the hour. Shame.
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I have been going to the Square and Compass for over 14 years and to me it is the greatest place on earth to meet such lovely people, sit in the sun shine (if it is out)where dogs and chicken's share our tranquillity which is ever increased by the amount of Charlie Newmans real ale or cider you can consume in 7 hours, followed by a walk lit only by the stars (if they are out)to illuminate the dark night sky over Priest's way through the spooky stone quarries and dark fields back Swanage for bed time. All year round something different happens at Charlies pub from Square fare to the pumpkin contests.
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Although a car is almost essential to get to this pub, there is an alternative. Get the 144 bus from Swanage; the trip takes just over 15 minutes. There are of course only a very small number of trips per day so it would have to be the 12.25 ex-Swanage, returning on the last bus at 14.18! But at least that would give you about an hour and a half to sample the ales and the pasties. Enjoy.
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Sat outside in the garden on stone benches looking at the fantastic view. Lovely pint and some wonderful olives stuffed with sun dried tomatoes. Can't beat it. Will definitely be back to sample the home made pasties which looked good. Wish I could have sampled a few more pints but I couldn't persuade my wife to drive. Honestly couldn't find a single fault so 10/10.
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The Square and Compass (name refers to the stone quarries nearby) has hardly changed in my 30-odd years of going there, and is to be treasured. Sit outside on a bench on a later summer lunchtime with a beer and a pasty, Heaven!
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Love the place - somewhat quirky in layout, but you cant fault the beers and the pasties are great too.
Would like to have stayed longer and sample more of the ales but had the car and its slap bang in the middle of nowhere
Nurke - 30 Aug 2007 13:08 |
Pub comproses 2 rooms and a museum plus a bar in the corridor. One room is small and cosy with about 3 tables in it whilst the other is darker but more open. The museum contains fossils. All 3 are empty as the only people inside are in the corridor in the queue to get served on a rare fine day this summer.
Ales excellent and pasties are the only food available.
The garden though was packed with drinkers, kids, dogs, stone tables and numerous sculptures.
Recommended
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still far to DEAR !!!!
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Still the best pub I have found, good everything
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Very, very good. Great ale and pasties. Superb interior.
Best to visit on a cold drizzly November lunchtime after a long walk around the headland. Then you'll really appreciate the history and atmosphere of the place.
Don't expect to park anywhere near on a summer's day if you get there after 10.30am tho.
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Remains the best pub in England.
Brimming with charm and character and great beer.
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The best pub in England. Beer, cider and perry straight from the barrel - the only way they should be served. Pub is in the middle of great countryside.
Boyne - 13 Jul 2007 12:38 |
Great pub, and in a lovely location - great beer garden out the front which looks like a stone circle that has been trashed by the locals! Nice beers too, always go here for a pastie and a pint when i'm in the area.
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Park up, walk the coast path, stagger back up the valley then relax with an excellent pint or two in this superb pub. Magic!
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As good, possibly even better, than I remember it.
Choice of 5 bitters, many ciders and a perry. Pasties as good as any you'll get. Art collection to rival many small galleries.
Just don't expect to get a seat.
Only drawback - its about 2h from my house....
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No, you definitely can't see the lights of France by night (that's cos they are 80 miles away) but everything else everyone has said is spot on. One of England's finest pubs. No music (save the live sort), no telly, no nasty food. Yes it's uncomfortable and a pain to get served through that tiny hatch, yes it's always crowded, but that's because its good.
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Quite simply an excellent pub on a sunny day - however when the mist comes in ...... Been here 4 times now and beers are always too notch, great on a winters day and in summer - although can get very busy with walkers. Great history too. Mrs Harlap liked the craft shop over the road too.
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Quite simply a charm!
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An outstanding exemplar of a rural, maritime English pub. Wonderful old building in a dramatic Isle of Purbeck setting - thank goodness neither have been ruined by invidious development. The beer and cider are absolutely top notch and the apple cake is worth the journey alone. One of the few pubs worthy of 10/10 without having to even consider it.
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"...have even seen the lights of France at night". (Fossil, 2 Jan)
Wow! Must have been serving especially strong cider that day!
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Had a chance to go back to the S&Q last weekend, and took it with glee! Full, on a wet and windy Saturday in February, but managed to squeeze four onto a table of locals out for a walk. Pasties smaller than I remember (perhaps I was just more hungry!) - but the beer, the open fire and the atmosphere every bit as good. To make things easy for the staff, everything is sold in units of £2.50, so £10 will get you two pasties and two pints - just what was needed before a stiff clifftop walk! I only hope and pray they manage to withstand the trend for modernisation - this pub should be listed as a grade 1 building to preserve it!
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This is a pub that we first got to know on a wet and windy March evening when we were camping locally over 35 years ago! Even now, we go back there when we are in the area. It is quite simply magnificent. The beer is served from a jug which the landlord fills directly from the barrel, and has always been an absolute joy to drink. The pasties are enormous, and, provided you are prepared to be flexible about how they are served, they make a magnificent meal. There is only one problem - as more people have got to know about it, so the space inside seems to have got smaller, and I'm very much afraid it is on the Chelsea tractor brigade's list, so use the car park about 100 yards up the road! Wonderful in summer for the views, but even better in the depths of Winter when you sit inside warming - or raosting - by the fire, often alone or with one one or two villagers. A rare treat, unspoilt(so far) by trying to be modern! if you like chain or theme pubs, stay away, but if you want something different, including a most eclectic little museum, it is certainly worth the detour, and actually, it really is not that expensive - I've known places where you pay a lot more for an awful lot less atmosphere and enjoyment!
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have known this pub for over 40 years. it is still special (even when Kevin wants everyone to go home). Charlie puts on amazing music by musicians from all over the world. my favorite time to visit is out of season when there are more dogs than people, the fire is a bed of glowing logs and its blowing a gale of driving rain outside from off the sea. Views are great and have even seen the lights of France at night. The museum is a local treasure and Charlie adds to it regularly. The sausage pie and pasties hold the belly beasts at bay, especially when washed down with a bottle of Henry. Just assume that during the summer months you won't have the place to yourself, there could be a queue (especially at Square Fair or the Pumpkin Fair). just come out of season, don't expect egon ronay and be grateful the monopolistic breweries haven't got their hands on this pub.
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This pub has an excellent range of beers perfectly served which you can drink in a warm authentic interior.I have visited this pub on an occasional basis for 10 years plus and although the beer is as great as ever the atmosphere has changed. It seems now to be more frequented by holiday homers and other visitors than locals which has impacted on the atmosphere. Groups of people who seem quite unsure as to why they are there. Bundling out of Porsche Cayennes to eat pasties off a paper plate.Much better in the summer when you can sit outside. If you want a warm welcome on arrival I suggest that you go elsewhere as I have never been offered that here. The pasties were greasy and served on a paper plate for £2.50 a pop. Stick to the beer.
pxk99 - 30 Dec 2006 19:51 |
Whilst serving in the R.A.F. during and after the war at Renscombe the Square and Compass well satisfied our thirst needs .
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I wsa first impressed by this pub about 30 years ago, when carrying my pint from the hatch down the stone-flagged passage to the front door, my eye was caught by a framed sketch on the wall, original, signed Augustus John. It's that kind of place.
Outside, I drank my pint, one of the best I'd tasted,, and gazed over the English channel with warm sunlight and a cool breeze vying for dominance. What a setting...
This is a special pub, but it knows it.
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I don,t know the price of the cider but the beer is bloody dear as a retired person, i would like to look like colin farrell, but i need to drink elsewhere too DEAR by HALF.
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Anyone that can find fault with a pub that has a cider menu, only sells pasties and has its own museum with a stuffed alligator really is better of down at All Bar one sipping cocktails with assistant financial advisors, eating Nachos and trying to work out if you too could pull of the long hair and moustache combination as sported by Colin Farrell in Miami Vice with out looking even more like an idiot as you already do with a mullet (Its not ironic its just bxxxxxxs).
Best Pub in England.
PS Don't make the mistake we did and down a pint of Weston's in 5 minutes...you will die
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Fantastic old-fashioned pub with a brilkliant selection of beers andf 'real' ciders at low prices. Great pasties, great garden/views/location. Well worth a regular visit!
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The service in this pub is so poor one wonders how it can stay open, the staff try to take the piss out of every customer! AVOID. The prices are higher than Central London. The next time I am in the area I think it will probably be closed , which seems to be their objective.
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Recently dropped by of a weekday lunchtime and was un-nerved by the two schoolgirls behind the bar who seemed more interested in 'Girlie chat' than pulling pints and serving up pasties. Having said that the pubs atmos is still a legend, just get some interested staff in.
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This is one of my top ten pubs in the land. A perfect pub with fine beer.
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This is a very pleasant pub. Stopped off after a walk and enjoyed a refreshing pint views out to sea. A pub with character (and a museum).
blamm - 24 Aug 2006 15:43 |
Great place for campers to park up at the end of the village as 3 pint of Dry Farmers Tipple and you are on driving
We are hoping to get to the pumpkin festival that the pub runs this year :-)
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still the best pub,
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Just had my holiday and visited what I thought was the best pub in the UK. Now it is none smoking pub so it must be classed as the best pub in the world.
anonymous - 11 Aug 2006 14:36 |
Charlie runs this pub as his Dad did and its a credit to him. Generally the clients are a nice bunch, but with all local villages in the area, too many holiday homes are ripping the characters out of the bars. Anyway, great cask beer and you must try the Perry cider. Great pasties which taste home made, but I was a bit worse for wear. The views a stunning but remember to wrap up warm on those cool evenings as the wind bites. As a previous poster mentioned, as far as the telephone companies are concerned, you will have travelled to France, so ring wife before leaving blighty. Totally rustic pub, chickens and dogs too boot, even the odd (and I mean odd) live musician.
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Agree with all of the above, but watch out! Whenever I go there (once a year religiously wether I need to or not!) my mobile decides I am in France! Mind you had the last laugh as the boss decided to call once and his bill was huge (as it cost the firm money to ring me and the mobile (also a work one!) money to receive the call.
Pasties are too nice. Always have to have two, (to soak up the beer!)
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The best pub in England.
Finest location.... great beer.
But don't tell anyone.
Only trouble is you need a car to get there. I'll need to persuade Mrs TerenceD to drive me there... that'll be an uphill struggle.
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Fantastic pub. Real ale, real atmosphere, real people and real views.
Great museum.
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The fact that the person in the queue in front of me asked if the bar accepted US Dollars might hint that the secret is out. She was gutted that they only took Yen...
The garden is wonderful, with Purbeck stone for tables and seats. Just as well, as inside is tiny and about the size of the many Chelsea Tractor 4x4s parked outside.
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best pub in dorset by far. great setting. brilliant views. lovely pasties. great beers and ciders. beer served from chilled barrels - not pulled but poured. tastes wonderful. could call it my local although i live 20 miles away. try it out.
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lets keep it a secret, just for ourselves!!!!
anonymous - 10 Apr 2006 21:03 |
Yes, You have just found one of Britains greatest pubs plus a lovely free museum. I live in London it is worth walking to a true and rare gem.
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Off all the thousands of pubs I have visited over the last four decades this has to be my number one favoutite,it is like a step back in time, the beer the atmosphere the views the pasties and not forgetting the museum.Please, whatever else you do in your life, pay this wonderful pub a visit.I promise you will not be disappointed
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Probably the best pub in Dorset!
A GREAT walker's pub, after a jaunt around St. Aldhelm's Head, there is nothing better than a swift pint or three, with a slice of pie or pasty.
A mate of mine walked here for a pint on his 40th birthday, he got his wife to drop him at Lands End first though!
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A real 'character' pub. Very limited range of food (only pasties really), but a very interesting visit. Always full in the summer, closing time is rather flexible too.
The only thing from the 21st. century obout this one - is the prices!
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fantastic place, you must go, dogs and geese running around, roaring log fires, best scenery in the world, friendly people what a gem, completely unspoilt.
anonymous - 30 Jan 2006 14:31 |
I know people who travel from London just to spend a lunchtime here without visiting any other pub in the area. Once visited never forgotten and you will be back time and time again.
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Bohemian boozer once frequented by Augustus John and featuring (I think) a sketch or two of his....now a favourite haunt of local artists and walkers...well kept beer and cider...full of dogs scouting for pasties which is the only food available in the pub...a refreshing feature which may account for the Square keeping its unspoilt personality. If you don't like pasties, get a sandwich and/or cake from the crafts centre across the road and eat it in the pub. They don't mind.
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fantastic pub to visit, well worth the drive, breath taking scenery, friendly staff, well worth a visit.
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A near perfect pub, one of the best. All the comments are bang-on, I enjoyed the Doreset Gold and Firsty Ferret ales, the girlf tucked into someo f the many and varied ciders.
I can only add that the tables in the garden are stone from the local quarry so you feel like a king whilst quaffing and there's a museum at one end of the pub full of strange local gubbins and stuffed animals.
Fantastic.
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The cider here is wonderful and it's a perfect watering hole after a tough day chilling out on the dorset coast.
They run stone sculpture workshops here too and one a good day you can almost see France. In deed, oddly enough the only mobile phone network I could pick up here was french!
The Dogs are friendly and theres a nice walk to the coast nearby where I often go swimming in the sea off the rocks. Watch out for the occasionally strong current though.
Top Pub. I love queuing up for the serving hatch and sinking those pints of scrumpy (especially the organic stuff)
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Dorset boozer are they should be.
Quite probably unchanged (inc. clientelle) since about the 15th century
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amazing place wow. Love the attached dinosaur museum and the crazy sculptured furniture. winning!!!
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Worth driving all day to visit. Remarkable.
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If you only ever make it to one more pub in your life, make it this one! For those who like their real ale, real cider, mulled cider (yes, really!), dogs and stepping into a timewarp, this is the place! The pub looks like a farmhouse from the outside, has two separate rooms with flagstone floors, one with a roaring fire and the other with an ancient heater. No bar, just a serving hatch with an orderly queue of drinkers! It must have remained unchanged inside for a couple of centuries. Quite simply the most relaxing pub I have ever been to. It is remote but well worth whatever you have to do to get there!
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What a Pub. all you could want.
anonymous - 13 Jan 2005 16:32 |
Fantastic pub. staff friendly, drinks great (Farmers Tipple quite lethal if you are taking a walk, 3 pints made it very amusing). Best pub in Dorset :)
anonymous - 12 Jan 2005 11:02 |
Quite simply the best pub in the whole wide world!!
I have been going there for 30 years now, more frequently when I used to live in Southampton, but now i'm in Cornwall I still manage a couple of visits a year. Plenty of good camping nearby!
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This is one of the best Pubs I have been in. The beer has always been good and the cider is ok. Some of the best views with a excellent pint. Even the wife likes it here.
I'll be back
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Excellant reason for taking a holiday in Dorset. (Scenery not bad either)
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If a person fails to appreciate this pub, they do not deserve to visit it. I know of only two other special establishments - The Vine in Pamphill, and the Cuckoo Inn at Hamptworth. Isn't it sad that most of these genuine old places are now memories?
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Winter evenings in frontof the fire, summer spent stone carving, just two of the many pleasures of which I have wonderful memories.
Barry Filbert - 24 May 2004 12:24 |
Great beer,great atmosphere,excellant mine'host pity about the scour landlady
anonymous - 30 Apr 2004 13:07 |
The Square and Compass, a meer stagger from Acton Field or Toms field..just bring a torch
Oliver Pint - 15 Apr 2004 22:19 |
it is a wonderful pub. i have been away from Dorst a year now, the first thing i will do on my return will be to go to the square and compass and have a pint of cider.
anonymous - 8 Apr 2004 05:48 |
I visit the Square every other weekend when I visit Worth, it is one of the things that I look forward to most, especially in the winter when the fire is roaring the mulled scrumpy id flowing and the great selection of bands are playing! Can't wait for the weekend, and the Square fair this summer!
Michelle Alger - 7 Apr 2004 12:41 |
THis is possibly the best pub I've ever been to - it has a piano, a real fire, serves several locally brewed ciders and has a fossil musuem!
Jonny Sunshine - 4 Apr 2004 13:31 |
Combined with a good band it does not get much better. On a cold winters evening grab the fire and on a warm summers evening enjoy the company and view. Museums great too.
Clint - 11 Mar 2004 17:08 |
Bestest, most soleful pub in the world. Ever.
Rex - 8 Mar 2004 14:11 |
This is one of the nicest pubs I have ever visited. Real ale from the cask a roaring log fire and a very friendly family run pub. Next time I am in the area I must visit again.
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My favourite pub of all time, many fond memories drinking here. Long live the S&C.
Rico - 15 Jan 2004 18:18 |
can be like a dream you never want to wake up from, can be completely dead, but its what it is and long may it remain so. A reminder of whats crap about modernisation and comercialism
Shannon - 15 Dec 2003 11:55 |
although not close to Corfe Mullen, it is an excellent pub!
Harry - 5 Dec 2003 10:47 |
The Square and Compass, is one of those rare pubs that people make a special journey to. It is really for the purist, as it is a 300 year old building, which has been tenanted by the same Dorset family for 90 years. There has been no changes at all - and to visit the Square and Compass is to make a trip back to the past. The atmosphere is warm and friendly. It is close to Corfe Mullen and Swanage - and near to the coast.
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