Bell Inn in Basingstoke and Deane

Lovely old English pub with great traditional food

Nice traditional pub with good food, good beer, pool table and a dart board.

Friendly, old fashioned pub, inexpensive beer. The locals are friendly and willing to engage in conversation. Well worth a visit if you're in the area.

We popped in here for a couple of beers whilst staying down the road for the night. It's definitely a locals pub where everyone knows each other. We have never felt so welcome in a locals pub, everyone was happy to chat, let us have a turn on the pool table. The friendliest german shepherd happily played along with us. One gent even went out of his way to find the bus timetable so we would be back in time for dinner. I wish this was our local!

always a warm welcome, and there is always somebody to chat to and the beer I am told is excellent! Dog friendly too.

The Bell Free House is hands down the greatest pub in this beautiful town! I love it! I've always loved it. The beer is delicious and the staff are amazing. Nothing like crashing a Quiz night (trivia for us Colonist) and bringing in some clutch American answers (like Ty Cobb; May 2022 quiz night). I stayed here when I was a kid in 2000 upstairs and if I could I'd stay again. Thank you for making my stay in wild and wonderful Whitty!

Fabulous free house ,lovely and friendly staff. Always busy with locals,pool table, darts, jukebox and great beer

Lovely gem of a hideaway... New favourite place to go!

Good range of beer, cracking lmacd to have a meeting. If you're after food ring ahead to check.

Nice welcome and good beer, as always 😎 👍

Great little pub, good food and friendly staff. Really old school pub, has a pool table, darts and a lovely outside garden.

A warm and friendly pub. The landlady Jan is the perfect host. I would definitely recommend.

They don't make pubs like this anymore. Good beer and food. Nothing fancy just wholesome grub. A 50p pool table as well.

Great working mens club style atmosphere, friendly locals and friendly staff

Loved it. Great place to stop for some food and a beer. Friendly.

Lovely friendly small local pub. Dog friendly. Even after nearly two years of covid, this place is still the best.

I keep going back, so that shows its a great pub!

Great pub and good priced beer. Welcoming staff and dog friendly

Lovely rekaxing place good food and pleasant staff.

Great atmosphere, favoured by the locals. Poor Wi-Fi - talk to your mates!

This Inn is top. Just want to say a massive thank you to everybody there for making my recent visit feel incredibly safe standards were here too and it was a very enjoyable experience

Extremely friendly and welcome staff and very dog friendly (fed our dogs biscuits at least 3x). Service good and we both had a breakfast around midday which was just perfect. We would return

This is my local it's fabulous and friendly

Sat here with a pint, lovely little pub garden, it's near the water meadow walk and there's nothing nicer than to do this walk and finish off here in the sunshine. Inside is lovely too and very cosy with a great Sunday roast in the winter.

We have chosen The Bell Inn on several occasions, for a pint or two of something tasty, now that we live in Whitchurch (having also frequented here many times prior to moving to the town). Of all the pubs in Whitchurch, The Bell Inn is reminiscent of times gone-by, where a traditional cozy feel exudes on each and every visit. The atmosphere is always lively and convivial at The Bell Inn. Music is often played (jukebox or otherwise) and the huge fire is often lit, in colder months, providing added to warmth to the already cozy feel. There are also television screens available for viewing sports events. The Bell Inn will can offer you regionally brewed beers/ales and gins, to assist you in soaking-up the Bell’s charm. I understand food is served, but have not eaten here as yet. There are plenty of wooden beams in sight here, as well as local and shipping/naval memorabilia. A real treat, for lovers of a ‘classic’ pub environment! The hosts are friendly and welcoming. Sitting on stools alongside the bar itself is welcomed here, and not considered an imposition. Overall, a fantastic venue to go to for decent drinks, relaxation and for socialising!

Good beer, good friendly service, thank you

We have chosen The Bell Inn, on several occasions, for a pint or two of something tasty, now that we live in Whitchurch, and I must admit that we also chose to visit here, in the months prior to moving to the town, as we liked the atmosphere.

Best public house in Whitchurch...very good food.....

Traditional pub with a larger selection of drinks (ales, beers, whiskies) than other pubs in the area. Haven't yet eaten there.

Good beer, roaring fire, cosy feel.

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Good honest real ale drinking pub.

Good home made pub food and friendly service - such a contrast to cookie cutter pub chains

Lovely people in here very nice food

I visited The Bell with a group of friends (10 of us in total). I usually buy half a pint of cider when I go out for lunch and have resigned myself over the years to the mass-produced semi-alcoholic lemonade which passes for cider in most pubs. I was, therefore, overjoyed to find that The Bell serves really good old-fashioned REAL cider and would have ordered a pint if I hadn't had to return home on the bus! The staff were extremely helpful and friendly and told us that fish was on special offer that day, so several of us ordered the various fish courses on the menu. I chose breaded plaice which, when it arrived, turned out to be a lovely large portion almost the size of the plate and served with chips, peas and dressed salad. I followed it up with lemon roulade, which was served with cream. Excellent value for money and I might go there again on my own some time.

My friends and I enjoyed our visit to The Bell Inn for Lunch.. lovely food, friendly service and reasonable prices. Would recommend it to friends and would also return for another visit.

The pub was small and cozy. The staff memeber servig was polite. There was a small garden out back for smokers to use.

The Bell Inn is a halfway meeting point that my sisters & I tried for the first time today; I say first time as we will definitely be back. What a lovely, friendly, cosy pub. We aren’t pub goers but this is certainly a place that draws you in. The menu (varied & reasonably priced) & meals chosen more than made up for the extended hot journey getting there. I can’t recommend the friendliness of this place enough & that’s before we even started on the food! Lucky to have found this little treasure.

Nice clean tidy place with friendly staff

A charming drinking place that was typical of village pubs. Amazing real ale, try the doom bar and great service and friendly customers. Dog friendly as well and dose serve food and has acoommodation as well.

Excellent facilities, beautifully looked after

Did a super job looking after 50 of us, really lovely staff, dog friendly. It's a small pub but it's homely has a fireplace and a little upstairs area, along with a cute garden space.

Great service..good food.. friendly staff

Very popular small pub with 2 bars. 'Home cooking' style food

The landlord is a true gent and the cook is fantastic. A great pub for lunch and a pint.

Fantastic pub with fantastic locals. Love the bell

This is a lovely old pub! Great character friendly staff amazing food good value for money good selection of beer and spirits lovely surroundings and relaxed atmosphere!

I stopped off at this pub for a quick beer before playing a show locally, having previously visited the other two big pubs in the centre of Whitchurch. Despite the outside misleading atmosphere of a quaint village local, when stepping through the door I was met with the all-too-common dystopian imagery of a crowd of men standing at the bar, wordless, with their eyes transfixed on a big screen showing football. A shame about that ruining the atmosphere somewhat, because for the rest of my stay the pub was rather enjoyable. The barman was friendly and helpful enough, and the pub was clean enough. I particularly enjoyed all the cold war-era maps displayed en route to the toilets, but then, I am something of a cartography nerd. The beer, also, was of a decent enough quality and they had a nice selection. They stocked some of my old favourite ales along with some I had not tried before. Of the other pubs in Whitchurch, I would probably say this one is better than the White Hart, but falls slightly short of the King's Arms, although this one is more affordable than the latter in that regard.

5 of us met here for lunch - very friendly staff, good beers (London Pride and Doombar) and lovely pub grub. It was Friday so there was a special deal on fish and chips with lots of choice. Dogs particularly welcome. Lots of people in the pub having lunch which is always a good sign. If you want a traditional pub without any pretensions but a lovely warm welcome and a cosy and friendly environment this is well worth a visit. The food was exceptional value. The town is worth a visit with lots of walks along the River Test, and a Silk Mill to visit.

Nice, really clean loos. Lovely pub

'Proper' local boozer. Pub quiz every other Sunday, (yet to win😢)

Away from the centre of the town, a small local pub which had a good selection of beers, the menu was average and looked to be at reasonable prices, no one was eating so I avoided ordering.

Good food excellent service didn't book a table for a Sunday but was full and it was no trouble for the staff to seat us and we were made most welcome food and drink served within 15 minutes all the staff were very helpful and polite will definitely visit again i will definitely recommend this pub. Oh and the kids loved the playground.