Pubs in Dartford
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Bird in Hand
242-244 Dartford Road, Dartford DA1 3EY
Handy for local bus routes this locals' pub lies just inside the Kent border from Crayford. The landlord is a keen supporter of real ale and cider. The pub hosts various sporting teams, including two mens' football teams and three ladies' hockey teams. The large garden to the rear is home to bat and trap during the summer. The pub has live music most weekends and holds a beer festival twice yearly. Copious amounts of bar nibbles feature every Sunday.
Dartford Sports Bar
17 Spital Street, Dartford DA1 2DJ
Town centre former Bass Charrington house that traded under a variety of names as it gradually drifted towards closure in spring 2019. The archive photo suggests that it had once been part of the tied estate of Hoare's brewery, which was acquired by Charrington in 1933. Re-opened as a club and music 'venue' 28th August 2019. Changed back to being a pub 4th July 2020.
Dart
30 Chastilian Road, Dartford DA1 3JJ
Two-bar estate pub dating from the 1950s and typical of that period. Would benefit from a more adventurous range of cask beer.
Foresters
15/16 Great Queen Street, Dartford DA1 1TJ
This pleasant side-street local dates from 1869 and is a five minute walk up East Hill from the town centre. It has a "U" shaped bar, with an open wood fireplace at one end and serves two regular real ales plus a guest. The car park holds about 15 vehicles and there is a large paved beer garden with a covered heated smoking area. Opposite is a graveyard which contains the unmarked paupers' grave of famed steam pioneer Richard Trevithick, a rough location given by a plaque on the north wall.
Fox & Hounds
201 Lowfield Street, Dartford DA1 1JJ
This pub now offers real ale.
Fulwich Hotel
150 St Vincents Road, Dartford DA1 1XE
Pub serving the local community a mile to the east of Dartford town centre. A horseshoe shaped bar separates what were originally the public and saloon bars. Named after Fulwich Farm that was close by.
Hufflers Arms
110 Hythe Street, Dartford DA1 1BN
Located north of the town centre. A huffler was a porter who carried provisions from a ship's chandler aboard waiting vessels. Would benefit considerably from the re-introduction of real ale.
Ivy Leaf
72 Darenth Road, Dartford DA1 1LS
Large suburban hostelry situated about ten minutes walk from the town centre and even closer to Dartford football ground. This long single bar pub offers one regular real ale and up to four guests. There are wood burning fires at either end of the bar and a covered smoking area to the right of the pub with steps leading up to a beer garden. A music quiz takes place monthly on a Thursday, and an open quiz on Sunday evenings. The Fastrack "B" bus stops nearby.
Malt Shovel
3 Darenth Road, Dartford DA1 1LP
Traditional country-style pub dating from 1673 situated near the town centre. It has two bars, a low-ceilinged tap room featuring an 1880s Dartford Brewery mirror and a larger bar leading to a conservatory where meals are served Wednesday to Sunday lunchtimes and Thursday to Saturday evenings. A large beer garden leads off the conservatory. The Fastrack "B" bus stops just across the road to the rear of the garden, where barbeques are hosted in the summer. There is a thriving open quiz on Monday evenings and crib night on Tuesday. Small car park adjacent to the pub.
Oddfellows
72 West Hill, Dartford DA1 2EU
Ex-Courage house with a glorious past, now claiming to be Dartford's premier Sports and Entertainment Bar Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, then pupils at nearby Dartford Grammar School, entertained here in their teens. Brightly decorated interior and seating outside in a large paved patio garden area including a covered smoking shelter, formerly an aviary. Re-opened April 2017 but future uncertain.
Miller & Carter (Princes Hotel)
Princes Road, Dartford DA2 6NQ
Anonymous purveyor of unadventurous and undemanding food and drink. Anyone who likes a decent pint to accompany their meal will find only heavily processed, gaseous products available. Built on the site of the former Princes Hotel, a sometime Ind Coope house that was acquired by Harvester and demolished for no good reason around 2003. Refurbished and re-branded Miller & Carter in March 2019 and still not offering real ale.
Harvester (Rising Sun)
105 Dartford Road, Dartford DA1 3EP
Harvester restaurant on main Dartford/Crayford road. Real ale re-introduced in 2016.