Tanners Arms

Tanners Arms

A small, characterful pub with an excellent rotating selection of craft and guest ales, an old-style jukebox and a genuinely warm, sociable atmosphere - a proper drinker's pub.

Address:

2 Hotspur Place, Alnwick, NE66 1QF

Hours:

Mon - Thu: 2pm - 10pm

Friday: 2pm - 11pm

Saturday: 12pm - 11pm

Sunday: 12pm - 10pm

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Good to Know

The Tanners Arms is a small, ivy-covered 19th-century stone pub on Hotspur Place, just off Bondgate Without and a short walk from The Alnwick Garden. Inside it's one rustic room with a flagstone floor, an open fire and, famously, a tree growing up through the middle of the bar.

Why it's on our list: it's a proper drinkers' pub and a long-standing fixture in CAMRA's Good Beer Guide, with five changing real ales, a jukebox, regular acoustic music nights and a warm welcome for dogs.

Worth knowing: it's not a food pub, so eat elsewhere first.

A Little Note From Heather & Sand

We haven't quite made it here ourselves yet, but it's on our list!

We're working our way around Northumberland, personally visiting and reviewing as many of the places featured in our Listed section as we can. It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it.

In the meantime, we do our homework. Before adding somewhere to Heather & Sand, we research it, look at what other visitors have to say and check that it has a good reputation. If the feedback isn't encouraging, it generally doesn't make our list.

Of course, a little online research is no substitute for muddy boots, a decent coffee and seeing somewhere for ourselves. So until we've visited, we'll leave the personal review to one side.

A little about us...

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Through our Journal, Guide and Listed pages, we hope to help you discover somewhere new, revisit an old favourite or simply enjoy a little Northumberland from wherever you happen to be.

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