Kings Arms Hotel, 6 Church Street, Cleobury Mortimer, KIDDERMINSTER, DY14 8BS [Map]
01299 270252 
11:30-23 MO-SA; 12-22:30 SU
Evening Meals, Real Fire, Beer Garden, Lunchtime Meals, Campsite At / Near Pub

Me outside the Kings Arms in April 2000

A great place to visit for real ale or indeed food though it was changing hands the day after our visit during the spring of 2000. The staff assured us though that business would carry on as usual and they've certainly weren't expecting things to go down hill. Seem to visit here every two or three years for Sunday lunch and have never been disappointed. The staff were very friendly and the service prompt. Great real ale from local brewery Hobsons with a guest or two available too.

It's a 16th century coaching inn with a log fire in the comfortable main room with a handful of locals chatting at the bar. Had an interesting chat with one who used to work in the old quarries on the nearby Clee Hill, and then in the mines under the River Severn….A great range of carefully prepared home made meals are available at lunchtimes and during the evening in the bar or the non-smoking dining room behind. They were doing special offers on two and three course Sunday lunches when we visited. Best Sunday lunch I've had in a very long time, well apart from my mum's! Other more unusual dishes were available too and there's a very good evening menu too.

They offer good accommodation at the inn and you might be lucky if you stay there and catch some folk music too which they have every so often. Great place to go walking too. We headed north to Neen Savage during the morning and saw Dippers, Red Legged Partridges and a tiny bat flitting around and climbing up a tree trunk. After an excellent lunch at the Kings Arms we wandered along the footpaths around Mawley Hall during the afternoon. Very pleasant English countryside. They've some suggested walks too on an information board just down the road from the pub which you might like to try.