The Old Sun, Ampthill - pub details
Address: 87 Dunstable Street, Ampthill, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK45 2NQ [map] [gmap]
Tel: 0871 917 0007 (ref 5612)
Flitwick (1.8 miles), Millbrook - Bedfordshire (2.5 miles), Stewartby (3.1 miles)
Pub facilities/features:
- Pool table
- Outside seating
Pub suggested by Simon on 27 Nov 2003
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> Current user rating: 8.4/10 (rated by 5 users)
> Local guide: Bedfordshire pub guide
other pubs nearby:
Engine and Tender, Ampthill (0.1 miles), Ossory Arms, Ampthill (0.1 miles), White Hart and Cellar Bar, Ampthill (0.1 miles), Prince Of Wales, Ampthill (0.3 miles), Queens Head, Ampthill (1.0 miles) - see more nearby pubs
user reviews of the Old Sun, Ampthill
please note - reviews on this site are purely the opinion of site visitors, so don't take them too seriously.
| Considerably improved of late after a bit of a dip. Good range of beers and one of the better pubs in the town. Paradise_Alley - 2 Apr 2006 09:47 |
| Excellent pub, good beer selection and nice proper pub feel. By far the best pub in Ampthill and has been for a very long time. Dave Raggett still makes the occasional guest appearance to lend a hand. New Decking out back is a real bonus as is the bouncy castle. New pool table looks nice but is probably the quickest I have ever played on! nephron - 9 Jun 2005 12:40 |
| I visited this pub in Ampthill numerous times from 1977 to 1979. Dave Raggett had recently taken charge. The blokes treated me quite well, despite that I'm a yank, possibly due to my not bringing other yanks or stealing their birds and because I was willing to admit English superiority in all matters, especially beer making. I developed a taste for Trophy bitter, as that was the drink that all the blokes drank, and to be one of them, I had to do likewise. They also served BB, which Dave Raggett said stood for Bright Beer, but the blokes all told me that it stood for Beginners Beer. There was a solicitor named John Kemp who had flown in the RAF during the war, and there was a guy who lived in a barn and never worked officially who could drink more than anyone else, he went by "Jordie" but no one knew his real name and he wouldn't tell. One time he got three free beers from me by telling me that he could drink his beer in under ten seconds and me wanting him to prove it and him saying that if he did it he wouldn't have any beer left in his glass. I wish I could go back, although I doubt there would be anyone that I would know anymore, but there might be some who would remember some of the blokes I knew. Norman Carey - norman.carey@saintleo.edu - 30 Jan 2004 05:34 |
| Excellent local, great pool table. Dont get on bev's bleedin nerves though! sidearm - 14 Jan 2004 15:34 |
| Small town drinking hole, 3 drinking rooms in one tiny pub. Suffered slightly from departure of legendary publican Dave Raggett immortalised on the pub sign outside. Well kept beer garden, popular with cricketers in the summer. Simon - 27 Nov 2003 12:58 |
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