This website is currently in beta. If you wish to go back to the current site please click here. To provide feedback or find out more about this site, please click here.

CAMRA - Campaign for Real Ale
Pubs & Clubs
Events
Beers & Breweries
Pubs & Clubs
Events
Beers & Breweries
CAMRA - Campaign for Real Ale
Join Us
(Pub, External, Key). Published on 23-09-2020

Brookside, Barkby

Let us know your thoughts by leaving a score

Open
Operator: Independent
35 Brookside, Barkby, LE7 3QD (View on Google Map)
(07584) 358266
No website available
Facebook
Improve This Listing

The pub consists of a small traditional public bar, with a darts board, a slightly larger lounge bar with a dining-room annexe. Out the back is furnished with timber garden furniture on the partially covered paved patio area, with a log burner, and the lawned area with a hexagonal open-sided summer house, with a block paved floor. After many years in brewery ownership (Ind Coope, then Burtonwood, then Marstons), the Brookside is now an independent free house, popular for local ales and Indian food.

Historic Interest

This historic inn first started trading in the 18th century. It is tucked away in a secluded part of the village, so much so that, many years ago, former proprietors placed advertisements in The Leicester Mercury, issuing a challenge for consumers to find the pub. In bygone days, long before refrigeration, barrels of beer were cooled in Barkby Brook, immediately to the front of the pub. The barrels were laid in the running water, along a stone trough, which is still in situ to this day. A commemorative plaque fixed to the side of the brook bank brickwork, is visible from the footbridge, and reads: "A short run of specially shaped stones down the centre of the brook bed. Beer barrels from The Brookside Inn were rolled onto the stones to cool. In use until the early 1900s".

Information for this venue is provided by the Leicester Branch of CAMRA
Previous Names
Local Authority
Charnwood District (B)
Last updated
05/07/2023
Last surveyed
04/07/2023
Pub ID
LEI/9
Asset of Community Value
Seen some incorrect or missing details? let us know.
Opening
Food
Monday
4:30pm - 9:15pm
No Service
Tuesday
4:30pm - 9:15pm
5:00pm - 9:00pm
Wednesday
4:30pm - 9:15pm
5:00pm - 9:00pm
Thursday
4:30pm - 9:15pm
5:00pm - 9:00pm
Friday
1:00pm - 11:00pm
5:00pm - 10:00pm
Saturday
1:00pm - 11:00pm
5:00pm - 10:00pm
Sunday
1:00pm - 11:00pm
No Service
Spotted an error with the opening times? Let us know

Current beers

This Pub serves 1 changing beer and 0 regular beers.

Spotted a beer that's not listed above?

Brookside, Barkby

Add it to our list and share what's currently being served!.
Are you a CAMRA member? Contribute by submitting a beer score
Spot a Beer
Submit beer score
Do you know what Regular beers or changing beers this Pub serves? Let us know
Your scores
Join CAMRA to access beer scoring and view scores for other pubs.
Become a member.
Retrieving scores
You have no beer scores submitted.
Facilities
Garden Garden
Family Friendly Family Friendly
Parking Parking
Dog Friendly Dog Friendly
In public bar only.
Games Games
Real Fire Real Fire
Restaurant Restaurant
Separate Bar Separate Bar
Smoking Smoking
Wi Fi Wi Fi
Features
Real Ale Real Ale
Quiet Quiet
Transport
Close to bus routes (600m)
Centrebus: 100 (Irregular Mon-Sat daytime only)
Are these pub facilities or features correct? Let us know

Nearby

View All
(Pub, External, Key). Published on 23-09-2020
Malt Shovel
Real Ale Available
Pub
0.3 miles - 27 Main Street, Barkby, LE7 3QG
(Pub, External, Key). Published on 12-02-2019
Mansah Lounge
Pub
1.5 miles - 1173 Melton Road, Syston, LE7 2JS
Midland Railway, Syston. (External, Key). Published on 06-11-2023
Midland Railway
Real Ale Available
Pub
1.5 miles - 1081 Melton Road, Syston, LE7 2JS
(Pub, External, Key). Published on 07-01-2023
Grosvenor Snooker Club & Bar
Real Ale Available
Pub
1.5 miles - 1269 Melton Road, Syston, LE7 2EN
Fox & Hounds, Syston. (Pub, External, Key). Published on 07-08-2013
Fox & Hounds
Pub
1.5 miles - 2 High Street, Syston, LE7 1GP
Pharmacie Arms December 2021. (Pub, External, Sign, Key). Published on 05-01-2022
Pharmacie Arms
Real Ale Available | Real Cider Available
Pub
1.5 miles - 3 High Street, Syston, LE7 1GP
(Pub, External, Key). Published on 12-02-2019
Syston Brookside Club
Club
1.6 miles - 10 Brookside, Syston, LE7 1GG
(Pub, External, Key). Published on 24-04-2013
Dog & Gun
Real Ale Available
Pub
1.6 miles - 28 Chapel Street, Syston, LE7 1GN
(Pub, External, Key). Published on 22-08-2022
Britannia
Real Ale Available
Pub
1.6 miles - 4 Main Street, Queniborough, LE7 3DB
Queniborough Royal British Legion Club
Club
1.6 miles - Main Street, Queniborough, LE7 3DA
Pub Walk Shoes Icon

Love Cask Beer?

Join CAMRA to support the campaign to access more features plus access to a range of different benefits.

Become a member
Home
© Campaign for Real Ale 2023 - 2024
Facebook Twitter Instagram

Privacy Overview

We use cookies, which are small text files, to improve your experience on our website and to show you personalised content. You can allow all or manage them individually.

Necessary

Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.

Non-Necessary

These cookies help us to improve your web experience. They allow us to gather feedback on your behaviour and to show adverts relevant to you. You can turn this off here.

Cookies

We use cookies, which are small text files, to improve your experience on our website and to show you personalised content. You can allow all or manage them individually.