The Black Boy Inn in Shropshire

Quiet little pub with a good selection of real ales. Dog friendly and well worth walking up the steep Cartway to get here!

If looking for MUSIC, TELEVISION & ONE ARM BANDITS, Don’t visit TheBlack Boy Inn ! However if you want Real Ale, Open Fire, Good Company served in a Very Friendly Atmosphere, this is for you!

Great little pub for an oldy worldy feel and a lovely atmosphere. Staff are lovely, beer is good, they don't do food and it's more of an adult pub to relax rather than a family (child) pub, worth a visit to help you get up the very steep but fairly short hill to town

Great pub Friendly atmosphere with a warm welcome from Tracey and Amy not forgetting a great pint of beer. Plus a wide selection of wine,s and spirits. Highly recommend a visit.

Amy behind the bar was the most welcoming person you could wish to meet excellent service it was my first time in this pub and I will be going back 😊

Visited pub previously and the staff seemed miserable, however we put that down to us dropping in late at night. Tonight’s visit in mid evening started pleasantly with a good pint, good atmosphere due to the friends we introduced to the area. The staff then subsequently asked us to keep the laughter down. After all that this country has endured and fortunately the fact that mental health is at the fore, i personally think that laughter is good for the soul and to be asked to keep the laughter down is a bad call, after all it was a one off joke to cause the noise, not a barrage of look at me attention seeking behaviour. Black boy - good ale, lovely venue, staff assessment required.

At one time there were 50 pubs in the short length of The Cartway and over the years they have closed and be converted to housing. Most years The Black Boy is awarded the CAMERA Best Pub in Shropshire

Good choice of real ale but Pepsi was flat. When I mentioned it, barmaid said that’s how it comes from the pump! Maybe offer a different drink would have been appropriate.

The Black Boy is a very friendly and welcoming place. Situated half way up Cartway it’s a small but very inviting pub where you can have a great time and a decent pint

Half way down the Cartway is The Black Boy. It has a traditional appearance from the outside but is a little more modern inside. A good choice of beers, and the staff were friendly too.

Myself & my fiance were going to stay for the Friday night (23/08/19) and ended up not leaving until Monday morning. What a lovely place and The Black Boy Inn is most definitely worth dropping by for a lovely drink! The staff are lovely and we had such a great laugh. The customers were lovely too and the place had a fantastic layed back atmosphere, a great oldy worldy pub. It is not a food place but they do have various snacks at the bar. The town itself is worth a stay as it is so charming. If carling did towns with the most pubs. . .this would be it lol :) would recommend a visit or stay, plenty of places to eat & drink and be merry and if you do go, I would pop by The Black Boy Inn. . .enjoy :)

Evening bar staff on Monday night need a lesson in customer service. NO food available except rolls which have been sitting behind the bar all day - unrefrigerated.

Just around the corner from where we were staying, this proved the perfect relaxing spot fro our two evenings in Bridgnorth - we even enjoyed a quiz night on our 2nd evening there! Drinks were reasonably priced, with enough selection of ales to please the lads! Generally a "home from home" feel, with its warming real coal fire!

Located halfway up (or down) the seriously steep and historic Cartway is the equally historic The Black Boy, named after a nickname of King Charles II. This wonderful pub had a roaring fire and a fine selection of ales, including Ruby Porter from the Gorgeous Beer Co (near Telford), Enville's Ginger Gothic, and Olde Trip (originally Hardy & Hansons, now apparently brewed by Greene King). All of these were excellent and fairly priced. The ambience was great, with friendly banter from knowledgeable barmaid Tracy. We could have spent all afternoon in this place, but it was part of a pub tour so we had to move on!

Visited here in Feb & August 2018, really enjoyed it both times. The service and atmosphere was really nice and recommend it.

What a charming olde world style pub, welcoming atmosphere and friendly staff,, got talking to the locals about the name of the pub,,,,, will leave that for you to ask more from said locals.

A great little pub with a lovely view of the River Severn! We just popped in halfway up the Cartway for a quick one!

We visited this pub/resturant on Sunday after looking for somewhere local to eat. We are new to the area and haven't been here before but we will definitely be back.

Popped in for a quick beer last week.. Dog friendly, lively and busy Pub. Good atmosphere and the beer ( and food/ rolls etc ) all top. Recommended

A real beer drinkers pub with a good selection of ales. We also sampled the scotch eggs and were lucky enough to chat with the farmers who had made them literally that morning. Really tasty and well worth a try1

Great little pub for lunchtime food or for an evening drink! Staying a close by for a long weekend, we used this pub a few times. The pub is small and friendly, with an excellent beer garden and good food.

This pub has great beers and lovely staff but with that comes an old pub which has had its guts ripped out, leaving it with little character. Then they have a policy of allowing customers to smoke vaper at the bar!!!@ It also is dog friendly which is great but allowing them to sit on seats!!! . It may be ok for some but definitely not for me.

Well worth seeking out,slightly off the' beaten track' An interesting Pub with good beer, and service to match

A great local pub. Friendly atmosphere and for beer drinkers a good selection of real ales. I was fortunate enough to turn up on a Saturday lunchtime while there was a really good live jazz session. I can certainly recommend this pub, it's a gem!

I sat out in the beer garden, which has a lovely view and enjoyed a few pints. The beer was very good quality and well kept. Staff were friendly and gave excellent service. Well worth a visit.

A good old fashioned pub that serves a good range of quality beers and ciders. Outdoor seating with good views of river and countryside

The building looks like it has seen some history, great character, very friendly, and excellent range of great beers. You could easily lose several hours in here. We stopped for lunch, which is only bar food but again was good, Scotch egg was probably from Beamans the local butcher who rightly rules Bridgnorth, the ham in the roll again was probably Beamans, one small point, the only option on rolls was white bread,

El pub negro de boy es un gran frendly lugar con una pequeña terrese sobre bridgnorth, con un personal muy servicial

Quien va/posee ahora está haciendo un buen trabajo. El ambiente es cálido y acogedor. Cuando visitamos había un hombre (el dueño) y dos personal femenino de bar, todo era excelente, eficiente y nos hizo sentir muy cómodo. Había música, un incendio, opción clara de aperitivos, los precios, y lo mejor de todo, un gato de pub que quieran ser sumerjan. Todo bien hecho.

Let's get this out of the way first - Don't come here if you expect a meal, a table to yourself or even carpet on the floor. However, DO come here if you wish to mingle with the locals (you'll be in a conversation before your head has settled), a good selection of well maintained beers (and cider) a great environment that you just wouldn't find in a chain brand bar. The list goes on, give it a go - you may like it.

We visited the black boy on saturday the staff were very friendly and some musicians were playing some jazz we sat outside because it was such a sunny day the people we spoke to were very nice and we explained that we were not local and they gave us some tips on where to park if we came again lovely old pub nice beer what mord could you want

Atmospheric, old-fashioned pub serving a good range of real ales. It can get crowded, but there's some seating on the patio (which gives wonderful view over the valley). Reasonably close to the Cliff Railway, if you don't fancy wlkaing back up the Cartway...

a great local, no giant tvs, no jukebox, great range of ales, individual staff !!,what a real pub should be about. real fires too !

Not as good as it used to be ,the pub has been refurbished and has lost a lot of the character the lighting is far too bright ,it used to have,and the real ale choice on our visit was poor unless you like green king ales,although the guy behind the bar was friendly.

called here a few times as we have found it to be the best pub in town , very friendly locals have you chatting in minutes , nice cider and beer choices , very clean quirky old fashioned pub you need to try

Great atmosphere in here. Good beer and a sensible price. Nice beer garden with some impressive views!

This is what used to be called "a proper drinker's pub"Very basic food on offer - sandwiches, pickled eggs, that kind of thing - but the beer selection is excellent.Well kept beer, served by knowledgeable and friendly bar staff who seem to care about what they are selling and want you to have a great pint.Wonderful location, just off Cartway. Sitting outside on the (few) benches on a sunny day is a real glimpse into another, lost, England. You could easily imagine Victorian carts and drays struggling past.Characterful, well kept historic pub with great beer.Thoroughly recommended

This place was recommended to us but we were completely disappointed. We asked for food and were told by a man with various piercings in his face that he only had 3 ham cobs and sausage rolls etc. we decided this would be enough and paid £2.00. Each for dry cobs with a thin layer of ham. With hindsight we wondered why he got them from a carrier bag behind the bar.One of our party thought the bread was too dry and decided to just eat the meat. This is when we found the mould on the sandwich. This was particularly upsetting for the one member of the party who had just eaten his.This is not acceptable in the catering industry and I wish now we had reported this to the relevant body. As it was the barman just refunded us for the 3 cobs and quietly mumbled an apology.Surely these people have to be educated to certain standards of hygiene If you just want real ale then maybe risk it but don't ask for food!

Traditional pub with fantastic selection of ales, friendly service and lovely atmosphere. Situated towards the bottom of Cartway it is well worth a visit

This is a super pub to visit after wandering about in the historic area of Cartway and along the riverside. Friendly, chatty staff, and fast service, though seating can get a bit tricky when it's very busy.

Situated towards the bottom of Cartway this pub is my favourite in the town there is a superb choice of real ales its not a foodie pub, there are snacks available but I dont think they do meals. Excellent entertainment when I have visited on a sunday afternoon this is an absoloute joy you must visit when coming to Bridgnorth.

This place is more of a drinkers pub than for eating, if your tiring from walking up cartway, stop off for a quick one before making the climb

A great example what a proper pub should be like, great atmosphere, beers and bar snacks.We will definitely be back for a pint!

I came across the Black Boy Inn when visiting the town on the Severn Valley Railway. You don't come here for the food - all I could buy was a ham cob - but for the beer. One bar had about 8 varieties of real ale and ciders & I suspect that the other side had a similar number.The staff were very frendly and knowledgeable. You could sample a beer for free. The best thing was the price. I paid £2.85 for a pint of porter which is unheard of in the south-east.I did visit during the Easter Real ale festival but i imagine its as good at other times of the year. Well recommended.