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.
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.
Our traditional singing night is probably the busiest and most fun night of the week and Roger Hampson is at the keyboards, every Friday night.
Roger is off on hols this week (back next week) so we've a little bit of Malcolm Hogarth & John Higham here tonight (Fri 11th May) at 9pm - they're too funny to miss!
Roger starts off next week at about 9pm, has a break around 10pm before we start again and we finish at around midnight. You can sit and listen, join in from your seat or get up and take the microphone.
This isn't karaoke, this is for grown ups, just like we used to do it years ago, a really good old fashioned singing night!
The Rantin' Dogs - a fantastic sounding folk quartet (look I know there are 5 in the picture, they're the two either side of centre!), Steve, Dugie, Mark & Michael would like to let you know that they rehearse and play here every 2nd Monday each month from 9ish (after the Welsh class), playing traditional acoustic folk with a Celtic leaning. Check out where they got their unusual name from here cos there's no ranting with this group, like all the music here at the Blue Bell Inn, it's a lovely sound.
Hailing from North Wales, David Burton is an accomplished songwriter and instrumentalist who has composed many thought-provoking and foot tapping songs. This month we have another talented bunch not least of which is Jim Bazley who you can see playing here and the return of the exceptional Ellie Larke. Also appearing will the be Tim Saynor who did a great turn for us a couple of months back and is back now for a full set
And as usual Dave will be doing his thing...
Having performed solo and with his band up and down the country for over ten years David has supported fine artists such as Eric Roche and also played backup guitar for numerous talented singer songwriters including a stint with Duffy.
Over time he has honed a unique fusion of jazz, rock and folk known as fraz. His virtuoso guitar skills leave audiences open-mouthed as he performs his own compositions whilst also playing tribute to the work of acoustic guitar heroes such as John Renbourn, Bert Jansch and Pierre Bensusan.
Here's a bit from Dave to keep you going...
Like all of the music here at the Blue Bell Inn, it's a lovely sound and we would love to see you at the next one! Dave Burton, here every 2nd Saturday each month from 8ish.
We're having our annual Morris bash again this year and this one promises to be particularly good fun with three teams dancing!
Clerical Error the mixed Border Morris dancing team and street entertainers return to the Blue Bell Inn, Halkyn with Cadi Ha, a new Cotswold Morris side from Bangor University and our old friends Earl of Stamford from Warrington.
All are welcome to enjoy the entertainment, ciders and real ales.
Open from 5pm Monday to Friday and 12pm Saturday, Sunday & Bank Holidays. Food: Saturday 12pm to 2:30pm and Sunday 12pm to 2pm (menu here). Opening Hours. Advance bookings taken for food / drink outside of these hours. Coaches welcome by appointment. - We take most major credit and debit cards.
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