The Park Gate Inn - Staffordshire
The Park Gate Inn
Park Gate Rd Rugeley Staffordshire WS15 4RN 01543 682223 Current Rating: 5/5 Last Visited: 21/06/14 www.theparkgatepub.com |
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A quiet country pub with a small car park, please call ahead to ensure they have space to accommodate your vehicle. The owners are very friendly and welcoming. There is a nice beer garden out the back with a children's play area and trees the kids like to climb. When we were last there in June 2014 they also had a kids bouncy castle in the beer garden that the boys enjoyed playing on, even though we'd just spent the day at Alton Towers!
There is a small paddock to the side of the pub that the landlord was trying to turn into a small caravan site, however planning has currently been turned down due to objections from the local residents. That said, he is now trying to extend the car park to accommodate this area and if successful will have no issues with camper vans and motor homes staying for up to 3 nights.
There are great views across the countryside from the pub and just 50 yards down the road is Castle Ring, an Iron Age hill fort, situated high up on the southern edge of Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, in the village of Cannock Wood, England. Castle Ring was thought to have been occupied around AD 50, by the Celtic Cornovii tribe.
Apart from the perimeter earthworks, little remains visible. However, there is also evidence of farming having taken place at some point, since parts of the ground in the ring have been ploughed but there is still some debate as to whether these were created by the Medieval hunters (who also built a hunting lodge on the ring sometime in the Medieval period - the remains of this are still visible today) or the Celtic tribe.
A quiet country pub with a small car park, please call ahead to ensure they have space to accommodate your vehicle. The owners are very friendly and welcoming. There is a nice beer garden out the back with a children's play area and trees the kids like to climb. When we were last there in June 2014 they also had a kids bouncy castle in the beer garden that the boys enjoyed playing on, even though we'd just spent the day at Alton Towers!
There is a small paddock to the side of the pub that the landlord was trying to turn into a small caravan site, however planning has currently been turned down due to objections from the local residents. That said, he is now trying to extend the car park to accommodate this area and if successful will have no issues with camper vans and motor homes staying for up to 3 nights.
There are great views across the countryside from the pub and just 50 yards down the road is Castle Ring, an Iron Age hill fort, situated high up on the southern edge of Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, in the village of Cannock Wood, England. Castle Ring was thought to have been occupied around AD 50, by the Celtic Cornovii tribe.
Apart from the perimeter earthworks, little remains visible. However, there is also evidence of farming having taken place at some point, since parts of the ground in the ring have been ploughed but there is still some debate as to whether these were created by the Medieval hunters (who also built a hunting lodge on the ring sometime in the Medieval period - the remains of this are still visible today) or the Celtic tribe.