THE BELL at Aldworth has scooped yet another award.
In March Newburytoday.co.uk revealed how the legendary Bell Lane watering hole was nominated the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA)’s West Berkshire Pub of the Year title for 2010.
Now it has been voted the best Berkshire pub of 2010 by the members of the four CAMRA Berkshire branches - Berkshire South East, Reading and Mid Berkshire, Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead and West Berkshire.
West Berkshire CAMRA chairman Adrian Bean said of The Bell this week: “The West Berkshire and Arkell’s beers and Uptons and Tutts Clumps real ciders are always in excellent form. Sometimes it better to see a limited, but well-kept range of beers rather than a forest of hand pumps that some pubs do.
“The Bell is now in the running to win the Central Southern region Pub of the Year award. To do this, it must now compete against the best pubs from other counties. The two pubs it is up against are The Royal Oak, Wantage (Oxfordshire entry) and The Crown and Sceptre, Hemel Hempstead (Hertfordshire entry). These are excellent pubs, but I think that The Bell has all the qualities needed to win the regional award.”
West Berkshire CAMRA will present the Berkshire CAMRA Pub of the Year 2010 award to the pub on Wednesday, July 28 at 8pm and invites all supporters and well wishers to the event.
The Bell is a traditional pub in a building dating from around the 13th century and has been in licensee Hugh Macaulay’s family for more than 200 years.
It has won the local CAMRA accolade numerous times, once even taking the national title.