‘All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.’

So wrote Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter (amongst many other books and papers), in the years in which he lived in Georgeham, just down the lane from The King’s Arms, and listening to the tales and talk of the locals drinking at the bar each night, he may well have penned those words with reference to The King’s Arms, it’s beer, it’s locals, and the banter and chatter at the bar.

After a couple of years of change, including being renamed The Lower House (itself a reference to messr Williamson’s writings, in which the other village pub, The Rock was referred to as The Upper, and the King’s as the Lower (public) house, due to their geographic location), the King’s Arms has reverted back to it's roots, and of course original name, as the village pub favoured by locals, lovers of great beer, bar side chat, and great, solid, simple English cooking.

Re-opened at the end of June 2010, the aim of this pub is as an all-year round welcome haven for the lover of a simple pint and good company.

The pool table is back upstairs, the pool league will be challenged this winter by a new team, we’ll have darts, live football, great live music of any and all sorts, movie nights, bar games. In fact anything that comes to mind.

The food coming from newly instated Head Chef Henry Sowden's little kitchen upstairs is all well-priced, and varies from the simple and extremely well executed pub classics, to more ambitious plates, dleivered with passion and experience to make your dining experience special. You?ll see from our menus that it is mostly based in the larders and sculleries of Olde England, and everything we do is made from scratch on site by Henry and his gang, unless there?s the odd jam, chutney, etc from one of our village residents that will compliment the cooking.

We want your fruit and veggies from your plot or allotment if you have too much, or have been walking and blackberrying in the lanes. The odd cabbage has got to be worth a pint or two, surely!!

The pub is back, as it should be. Solid, comfortable and reliable.

Just don’t blame us if you get home later than you planned after ‘popping in for just one..’!!

Your good health!! Cheers!!