Saved by the Wilts and Berks Canal Trust and restored by their volunteers, the pub now offers real ales and good pub food. Winner of a CAMRA Design Award in 2020, it is home to both skittles and darts teams. There is a beer garden and a log burner for the winter. The pub is alongside the former Wilts and Berks canal.
Note that the road down Lyneham Bank is likely to be closed well into 2024 due to major subsidence, but the road from the west (Chippenham and M4) is open.
Historic Interest
Alongside canal which is under restoration
Restoration
The CAMRA Design Award 2020 for Refurbishment recognised this pub as splendid resurrection of a long-closed and near-derelict pub. It was bought in 2014 by the Wilts and Berks Canal Trust and restored by volunteers, who are also working on restoration of the canal. A visitor centre and beer garden are due to be completed. The virtues of a traditional canal pub still come through. It makes for an agreeable setting for a drink and reflection on the heroic efforts that have been put in. Real ales and ciders, meals. Closed Mondays.
This Pub serves 1 changing beer and 1 regular beer.
Peterborough Arms, Dauntsey Lock
Source: Regional