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"This gem of a rural pub richly deserves all its awards. It’s welcoming and friendly, warm-hearted and deliciously comforting."

- Adrian Tierney-Jones, Daily Telegraph

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"A real treasure – a proper rural pub at the heart of its community."

Blue Bell Inn

Built in the mid 1700s at the crossroads of two old coaching routes, the Blue Bell Inn is purportedly named after a local privateer's boat the Blue Bell. Legend has it that he was later caught and hanged for his piracy and is thought to be buried a few hundred yards away in the cemetery next to Halkyn Castle. How to find us.

Open from 5pm weekdays and 12 noon Weekends and Bank Holidays, we are an independent, family run, award winning freehouse!  We've been CAMRA Regional Pub & Cider Pub of the Year for North Wales, Cheshire & Merseyside, we were also listed as one of the Sunday Telegraph's Top Ten UK Country Pubs in 2008, 'The Best Pub' in  2009 and have been picked out as one of the Best Summer Walks for 2009 in the Sunday Times.

At 850 feet we are near the top of Halkyn Mountain with spectacular 70 mile views over the Dee & Mersey rivers, the distant Cumbrian mountains & Pennine hills. With an extensive events list we are enjoyed by walkers, riders, cyclists, folk & jazz musicians, game players and locals alike. Our award winning walks can be found here and you can use our free wireless internet to stay in touch. Real fires in winter add to the warm welcome. Bring your Motorhome!

We have it on good authority that beer is good for you. We've had hundreds of different cask ales and our own local Welsh brewed Blue Bell Bitter is always on with its stable-mate Dark Blue and other regularly changing real ales, ciders and perrys.

Click for Blue Bell Inn on Google+Click for Blue Bell Inn FacebookClick for Blue Bell Inn Twitter Click for Blue Bell Inn Myspace Click for Blue Bell Inn FourSquare Find us on-line and also in the Good Cider & Beer Guides and we have a Cask Marque for quality, in fact we are one of the highest scoring cask marque pubs in the UK! We also have a good selection of great wines, superb single malt whiskies and other spirits, a large range of soft drinks, Teapigs tea, Cafe Direct Organic Fairtrade Coffee & Chocolate. Our food is a mixture of locally sourced, home-made and traditional meals ranging from lighter bites to those that challenge the hungry.

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Murder Night - Death at the Distillery! PDF Print E-mail

Murder Night!In the quiet of the Scottish Island of Islayabout nothing ever happens. Life goes on much as it has for countless years, island life is tranquil and the islanders peaceable. At least they all thought they were!

Come and join in the fun of our first Murder Night. Saturday, 25 February 2012 at 7:30pm. There will be a small charge to take part in the fun.

We've quite a few character parts to fill and of course a multitude of detectives!   Let Jeannette know as soon as you can (ring the Blue on 01352-780309)!

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Mad Ed's Hot Five every Sunday afternoon! - at 3pm(ish) PDF Print E-mail

The Hot Five are Five!There's Trad Jazz here every Sunday at the Blue Bell Inn, Halkyn at 3:30pm(ish), with the mellow sounds of Mad Ed's Hot Five who bring a great mix of humour with superb musicianship. Don't miss them this week as they entertain both us and themselves with such verve and vigour that you'll get withdrawal symptoms if you do!

Mad Ed's hot Five are in full force most weeks with double bassist Mad Ed Lloyd-Hughes leading a stunning line-up of Roy Django Gregory (Modjango) on guitar & banjo, Stan Bananas Williams (YouTube) on trumpet & flugelhorn, Tom the Doc Rippeth on trombone & wagnerian horns and Dave Dixon playing clarinet and saxphonica (that's two of them!). You'll see from the pictures that they are ably supported by a range of fantastic subs who give us a lovely and varying mix of sounds.

All are welcome to enjoy the entertainment & our range of cask ales & real ciders and we hope you have fun joining in with Mad Ed's happy band of jazzers. Don't forget to look out for our new Jazz Links pages as they're growing all the time! We've joined myspace.com have you?

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Cheese & Pickled Night - 8:30pm Saturday 28th January! PDF Print E-mail

The more variety of cheese the better!Camra's Cider SiteWe're having a Cheese and Pickled night, lots of cheese, a great night, lovely atmosphere and good fun! Bring along a piece of cheese as your ticket to feast on many others

Cheese Nights: We generally start at 8:30pm on a Saturday Night once a quarter to enjoy each other's company and of course, some cheese and pate. Bring along a piece of cheese, fruit cake, pate, pickle, etc, to add to all the others (our record is a little over 50 varieties of cheese) and you can enjoy them with your tipple of choice.

Be adventurous with your cheese / pate selection as there will be plenty to try if you don't like what you've bought with you. We will provide plenty of crackers, water biscuits, rice cakes and butter. We've also had folks bring in cake (cheese & fruit cake is lovely), home-made pate, cheese cake and other exotic fare to add to the fun.

Any cheeses you like - cow, sheep, goats, etcDuring previous nights we've enjoyed as many as 50 varieties of cheese, these were all washed down with real ales, ciders, perrys, wonderful wines and a good time was had by all.

 
Stunning New Music - 1st Thursday monthly! Bill & Graham's Music on the Mountain - Thu 1st Feb 9pm PDF Print E-mail

Bill & Graham at the Blue with Adrian Dear of the DeporteesWe have new acoustic music here on the first Thursday of the month with Bill Malkin & Graham Bellinger. Come and join Bill & Graham's Music on the Mountain for some wonderful country, folk, rhythm & blues.

Bill and Graham will each take a set bringing you a selection of original and covered Folk Rhythm & Blues. As ever with these two wonderful performers, expect to hear some stunning strings and blues harp along with many songs from their latest albums.

There is no entry charge although there will be a raffle towards expenses for the chaps. Come and join us for an evening of first class entertainment.


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