The Tharp Arms in East Cambridgeshire

Going tonight for 1st time in ages! Always enjoy the company!The cider good too! Looking forward to it!👊

Difficult to do a review as the pub was shut !! A shame as we (three of us) were quite famished. No sign that it was closed until we had parked up in the car park.

A really nice village pub in this beautiful village in chippingham, people were really friendly and the bar staff were exceptional. The pub had a nice country feel to it with a nice look, nice pub garden to the back and seating outside front with tables also, doesn't do a lot to eat so just really for drinking with the odd grub, not as a pub to eat in for an evening meal but if you want to chill and have a drink it's perfect. Nice atmosphere A+++

Lovely pub with a lovelt beer garden. Only problem is that we didn't find a baby change facility so had to use a table. Plus not very buggy friendly. But a very nice pub and staff were kind and helpful. There is parking round the back but not much. Not overly wheelchair friendly as there is a step to the toilets and no access for wheelchair at the rear of the pub from what I could see.

Great little pub and owners! Havnt been lately but do miss my Friday trips!! Be back soon with my friend!👊

Very welcoming,nice to sit outside watch quiet part of the world go round.

Friendly pub and friendly staff

Very homely and welcoming pub, Beverly and staff are brilliant. Great Sunday roast as well. Highly recommend it and home made ice cream was unreal

We came here as a group of 7 for the Sunday roast and everyone of us said how amazing the food was, staff were very attentive as well Will certainly recommend

A lovely country pub, good atmosphere great choice of ales and lagers, very friendly and welcoming not to mention a fab roaring fire. Ran by a great couple with live music and a good choice of street food every weekend ! What's not to like! See you soon.

Great people, everyone is very friendly. Fun local pub with music and food trucks on the weekends.

Nice pub with some good pop up take away options for time to time.

First time visit and very much enjoyed the beer and surroundings... nice :-)

Lovely friendly place looking forward to going again value for money

Just called into the lovely pub,bar maid was very friendly & service was good lovely atmosphere & very clean even the toilet,we will be calling in again as it was on our way home from Ely

Lovely landlady and landlord. Beautifully decorated clean pub, brilliant atmosphere. Locals are friendly and great company.

Friendly and relaxed with a fair amount of outside space for those warmer days 🙂 Beer well-kept.

Very friendly locals and a real nice traditional pub

Love the place warm and welcoming 💖

Lovely country pub and welcoming atmosphere.

Great night there last night landlady is lovely

Friendly bar staff, very clean. Lovely quit country village pub.

Lovely Pub, very friendly. Would recommend A☆

Pop in Bank holiday Monday for a drink nice and friendly service and lovely and clean

Friendly chatty staff. Lovely big beer garden at the back. Loads of parking space.

Lovely pub, great publicans and staff, beer is great quality and always a smile when being served

Very friendly staff. Both Tom & Beverley always remember my name and always made to feel welcome.

Great little pub nice little village

Very comfortable. Cole outside but 2 fireplaces in Tharp Arms. Friendly people. I love to go there while visiting because people are so welcoming.

Best pub in the world. Run really well with great beer and is the centrepoint of our village. To top it off Bev opened up early on our wedding day in June 2017 and I got to have a beer before the ceremony, something I'll always remember.

No kids, no play areas, no food, no "riff raff," NO hassle! Just GREAT bar service, fantastic landlady and staff. A relaxed, friendly atmosphere with really nice customers. It's a jewel in the Suffolk landscape and the pulsing heart of a beautiful village. Just how real village pubs used to be. I'm so glad I found it. It reminds me of my local, back home in Warwickshire!

Seems to be a friendly place, helpful staff and on the night I was there, staff and patrons all seemed to be having an enjoyable evening. Didn't eat so can't comment on the food. A fair amount of parking at the rear, outside seating at the front and beer garden at the side. Dog friendly.

Nice village and a pub that keeps it beer well. Great people wish I still lived here.

We were in the area on holiday & decided to drop in for a drink. They had lovely fires going in both rooms & it was very welcoming. The toilets were beautiful! The pub quiz was hosted by a fantastic man, who easily gets our vote for our favourite pub quiz host! The quiz itself was fantastic also. All the locals were friendly, chatty & welcoming. I would 100% recommended a visit!

I travelled from London for a birthday gathering here. The garden was hired out for a private BBQ and drinks where available to purchase from the bar inside. Being from London I am not used to such little gems. It is only a small pub but very homely and personal. Everyone knew everyone. It was the perfect place to have such a function. The bar appeared to be well stocked, competitive prices for drinks, adequate seating area inside, clean toilets and friendly bar staff. I'm sure I'l visit again one day in the near future

No atmosphere, no food, random service depending on the landladies mood! Was a great pub ( see my previous review) now a Pub that is suffering from a lack of proper management! Such a shame that a small village has to put up with below par service!

great pub, good food and lovely staff. relaxing with the fire going on a chilly day, nice to see it busy on a Saturday afternoon, we are always looked after when our group visits.

We had a family funeral in Chippenham and as the village had much family link we chose the pub as our wake location. The pub is so traditional and warmly. They put together a lovely spread of food and it has sufficient seating inside and seating outside for nice weather.

We visited the Tharp arms on a Sunday afternoon, It wasn't overly busy. There were a few locals up the bar by all accounts, but we didn't struggle to get served. Staff were friendly and accommodating especially with our 2 young children. It is a small pub so we sat in the gardens to the rear of the pub. Definitely worth a visit.

We "the hot tubbers" had a great time in the pub with "Sunday Roast - brilliant and very tasty, followed after a few hours rest a Quiz Night with the locals and they made us feel very welcome". The land lady and daughter made us feel very welcome and we would very much recommend it.

Had a lovely home cooked meal yesterday, beef stew and dumplings after a great day out locally, with a Roaring open fire and wonderful service, I need ask for nothing else. great to see a pub with staff that actually enjoy being there. I believe you can always judge how an establishment is kept by how clean the toilets are and they were absolutely spotless. Keep it up Tharp Arms - I will be back!

Coming from a town and visiting cities which have razzle dazzle pubs with loud music, bouncers and every cocktail known (and unknown) it was great to frequent a pub that retained it's unique 'ye olde' style and village welcoming. We were only in the area a few days & with 3 kids in tow (2 x 13 & a 10 yr old) we couldn't make full use of the drinking, but dropped in, had great pork scratchings, smooth guinness and enjoyed a really good feel to the premises. Wish we lived local to this. - We were recommended this as a great place to visit for food but the night we needed the food (Monday) we were advised food wasn't served that night. We were a bit gutted but when I saw (and smelt) the garlic bread that came out for someone the evening after I think it is fair to say that we missed out on some great food....

The Tharp Arms is an amazingly friendly pub where everyone is welcome. This pub has Open Mike Nights once a month which is very popular, last night was no exception, brilliant night was had by all. Bev the Landlady is doing a fantastic job with the help of Charlotte. The Pub just gets better and better.

Met up with some friends for a Sunday lunch. Clean and tidy on the outside. Warm welcome, the real ale was first class. Not a huge choice, but what we had was very tasty. Very good value.

Use this pub on a regular basis and am always welcomed with smiley faces! Food is good pub food and is pretty reasonable. Nothing seems to be too much for the land lady and Lord! Also the ales change pretty regularly which always keeps me coming back. Sundew and wherry when I last checked a winner in my books!

Had a lovely meal here last night. We are not local, but made very welcome. The lady and gentleman serving us could not do enough, even though the bar was full due to FA cup final. The food was good pub food at a very reasonable price, I would definitely go back if in the area.

there were 3 vegetarians in our party of 4 when we lunched at this pub on 27th February. Although we were late in arriving, we were warmly welcomed by our charming hosts and told that our meal would be freshly cooked. There was a log fire burning and we were made to feel at home. There was a good choice of menu options mainly standard pub food. The vegetarian meals were excellent and my lunch came with a range of freshly prepared vegetables and hot gravy. Mustard came in a small pot and not the ghastly satchels that are all too common these days. I would thoroughly recommend this pub for lunch particularly for vegetarians.

The Tharp is the best its been for years. Bev and Richard are very friendly and welcoming and the beer always good. Have yet to try the food myself but all reports are excellent so far.

Worst beer I've ever tasted,terrible landlord,called several times early last year 2014 (was completely different then I think the landlords name was Kerry )he was a northern chap but he made me feel welcome and the hardys ale was out of this world

What a friendly pub, as soon as you walk through the door you're welcomed by staff and locals. The food is very well cooked and presented, the pub has a lovely old open fire to sit by on a cold evening. We loved the pub so much it helped in our decision to buy a house in Chippenham!

Stopped in originally for a couple of pints on a weekend. Friendly atmosphere and good beer! New landlords have made a world of difference. Now my favourite village pub!

We live just down the road from this pub. Never ever have I been spoken to so rudely by a member of staff in a pub in all my life. He was a horrible rude man. Never ever will I be going in my local pub again?!!!!

Found the pub by chance whilst passing through Chippenham and enjoyed it so much on the Saturday that we went back on the Sunday. We were given a very warm welcome by the Landlord Jerry (I think it was Jerry anyway) who told us he had only been at the pub for a week. He obviously knows his stuff as the Abbot, IPA and Hardy and Hansen were magnificent with the H&H narrowly coming out on top. There is no food at the pub but Jerry was happy for used to order a takeaway and kindly provided us with plates and cutlery. The only proviso when ordering the takeaway from the next village was that we had a drink from the bar which we were more than happy to do. The pub was busy on the Saturday and Sunday and bearing in mind that there was only one member of staff on duty, Jerry coped admirably. When we called back on the Sunday, Jerry remembered all our names which was impressive and he was a great host throughout the weekend. Unfortunately, traditional pubs like The Tharp Arms are dying out but hopefully this fine establishment will continue to buck the trend.

Good ale and good company. What more could you ask for? We first found the pub one winter day after we walked through Chippenham Fen and were welcomed so warmly that we visited often. Very nice.