THE RED LION

Village pub with weathered wooden benches in a countryside garden, a traditional bar serving real ales and classic pub food, and the character of a long-established local.

Peppard Common
RG9 5LB

🐕 Dogs Welcome 🍺 Real Ale 🌳 Beer Garden 🔥 Log Fire 🍖 Sunday Roast 🥾 Walkers Welcome 🏛️ Historic ⛰️ AONB 🎵 Live Music 👨‍👩‍👧 Family Friendly

⭐ Google Rating ✓ Independent

The Pub

THE RED LION is a traditional local. Specific details of the current offer and opening hours are best confirmed directly with the venue.

Facilities & Features

🐕 Dogs Welcome

🍺 Real Ale

🌳 Beer Garden

🔥 Log Fire

🍖 Sunday Roast

🥾 Walkers Welcome

🏛️ Historic

⛰️ AONB

🎵 Live Music

👨‍👩‍👧 Family Friendly

🛢️ Cask Ale

🍻 Craft Beer

🍂 Seasonal Menu

🥕 Local Produce

🪵 Inglenook Fireplace

🌿 Outdoor Seating

🛝 Play Area

👥 Good for Groups

✓ Independent

🤝 Community Owned

🏞️ Country Estate

🏡 Village Pub

🚲 Cyclists Welcome

🗺️ Walking Route

📺 Sports Screening

🚻 Restrooms

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The Garden

The Red Lion’s garden captures that particular charm of a proper village watering hole, where wooden benches worn smooth by decades of elbows overlook the sort of unhurried countryside that makes you want to linger over a pint long after closing time. On warmer evenings, the place fills with the gentle murmur of regulars and visitors alike, punctuated by the clink of glasses and the occasional burst of laughter, whilst swallows dart overhead and the smell of wood smoke drifts from the chimney. It’s the kind of place where you can watch the light fade slowly across the fields, nursing a local ale, without feeling the slightest pressure to be anywhere else—exactly as a country pub should be.

Contact & Location

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