Welcome to the Royal Oak Free House,
a community pub located in Harriseahead, close to Mow
Cop a popular local beauty spot.
Harriseahead is
situated north of Stoke on Trent on the Cheshire border and
is close to both Alsager and Congleton.
Circa 1858 it was originally an ale house known as the ‘Nags
Head’ and was renamed in 1889 when it became a fully licensed
public house.
Landlord Michael Clowes has owned and run the premises
since 1984 and it has been a firm fixture in the Good
Beer Guide for many years.
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The Royal Oak is a true village pub that holds regular meetings for
the local racing pigeon club, the cage bird society and child minders.
It has darts teams and holds regular quizzes in aid of charities.
The pub
is also dog friendly as long as they are house trained and it
has a real fire situated in the bar, perfect for those long cold
Winter walks.
The pub is purely a real ale pub
and therefore has no pool table, no
fruit machines and no karaoke.
An annual mini beer festival is also held at the
pub, watch this space for further details.
Special Events
Charity Quiz
Our Next charity quiz is going to be on Tuesday 25th of March the theme is Easter that is a little clue for you all! we have limited space so put your name up on the sheet as soon as possible to avoid disappointment, see you all then. The quiz master
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A true free house with 6 handpulls, regular ales are:
Fullers
London Pride
Copper Dragon
Black Gold
Courage
Directors
John Smiths
Cask
A wide range of guest real ale is available
and a small selection is featured
each week which changes from day to day. This week's changing
selection includes:
Ale
abv.
Brewery
Town
Alchemist Ale
4.3
Pictish
Rochdale
Armadillo
4.9
Whim
Hartington
Bishops Farewell
4.6
Oakham
Peterborough
Centtinnial
4.3
Townhouse
Audley
Harvest Pale Ale
3.8%
Castle Rock
Nottingham
Old Brewery Bitter
4.0
Samuel Smiths
Tadcaster
True Grit
4.0
Millstone
2 traditional ciders are served together with Erdinger Weise
beer, Blanch De Bruxelles wheat beer, Stella Artois, Carling, Fosters
and Guinness with an extensive selection of Belgian and German
bottled beers plus, of course, the fruit beers.
A large function room is available, ideal
for meetings etc.
We can comfortably
accommodate up to 40 people.
Mike and his daughter Diane are happy to provide home made soup
served with crusty bread etc. for groups of walkers (providing
they have a week's notice).
There are also light snacks available in the form of baps, pork
pies and pickled eggs together with the usual bar snacks of crisps,
nuts etc.
The ruin at the top of Mow Cop was built
deliberately as it lies today.
Constructed in
1754 it was built as a summer house for the then landowner
(Randle Wilbraham) to offer a romantic view of the area!
The
site also has traces of a prehistoric camp.