Live Sports — Pubs in Pontefract
Discover live sports pubs in Pontefract. Browse our directory to find the perfect pub.
Found 8 live sports pubs in Pontefract
Robin Hood
4 Wakefield Road, Pontefract WF8 4HN
Busy locals' pub with a public bar and 3 other drinking areas. It holds quizzes twice weekly and has darts and domino teams in the local charity league. Winner of several local CAMRA awards including the Branch Pub of the Year 1998, Pub of the Season in 2011 & Wakefield CAMRA Cider Pub of the Year 2013. It holds an annual Beer Festival. The licensed area now includes part of the upper floor. The Henry Smith brewery is behind pub, although some house beers are brewed at Revolutions. Opening times shown are those permitted by licence and should be considered as indicative but not necessarily definitive.
Horse Vaults Inn
2 Horsefair, Pontefract WF8 1PD
A town centre boozer, one of several past and present which reflect Pontefract being a racecourse town. It has proclaimed cask ale on its signage for many years, but only once had it for a few weeks. The hours shown are those permitted by the pub's licence.
Green Dragon Hotel
4 Cornmarket, Pontefract WF8 1BJ
handsome 3 storey late 18th C building with original bow windows, striking circular inn sign, walls painted light green, a lads' pub but Grade II Listing: Hotel. Late C18 with early C19 alterations. Rendered brick, incised to resemble ashlar and with banded rustication to ground floor. Stone dressings. Welsh slate roof. Three storeys, 5 second-floor windows. Central hallway entry - plan with through-carriage entrance bay further to left. Plinth. Doorcase to right is flanked by two-storey bows. Doorcase has C20 half-glazed door in raised plain surround set in Doric portico with columns supporting entablature with plain frieze, moulded cornice and blocking course. Bows have tripartite plate-glass sashes above panelled plinths, with stone sills and moulded cornices. To left is the segmental headed carriage arch with rusticated jambs and incised voussoirs. First-floor band. Bows have similar windows to those below without panelling to the plinths and left-hand bay has similar, slightly larger, tripartite sash window which does have a panelled plinth. Second-floor band. 5 small plate-glass sashes with projecting sills. Moulded stone cornice with blocking course. Stone coped gables. Brick end stack to right and one ridge stack. C20 extension to rear not of special interest. Beer quality well rated by CAMRA visitors. More train services stop at Pontefract Monkhill Station 800 metres away
Ponty Tavern
2 Cornmarket, Pontefract WF8 1AN
Originally Black Moor's Head (1829 trade directory) then Blackamoor Head, trading for a time as a Mr Qs catering for all ages during day, becoming a young person's venue at night, with all day food & dance floor, lots of tv's & 2 big screens. Hours shown are those permitted by the pub's licence. Note that Tanshelf Station is nearer to this pub than Monkhill but only serves Featherstone, Streethouse and Wakefield, also many more bus services leave from bus station within walking distance Previou owners Authentic Alehouses Limited in administration March 2019.
Ancient Borough Arms
41 Market Place, Pontefract WF8 1AG
caters for differing clients from shoppers at the market to late evening revellers
Carleton
Hardwick Road, Pontefract WF8 3PQ
A popular estate pub which now offers a range of well-kept cask ales not just from the Greene-King stable. Plenty of outdoor seating is available round side and to rear. very busy at weekends with the locals enjoying sport from the many TV screens. Holds Beer Festivals and Meet The Brewer evenings. The house beer is brewed by Greene King to the landlady's recipe. Branch Pub of the Winter Season in 2014/5
Golden Ball
Horsefair, Pontefract WF8 1PD
small town centre drinkers' pub, at one time offering ask ales but now aiming at a different market, a nice piece of Brewers' Tudor built for Pickersgills brewery, Depending on trading conditions, hours listed are given as an indication of when pub may be open. The town has 2 other stations: Pontefract Tanshelf and Pontefract Baghill.
Ambience, The
Sessions House Yard, Pontefract WF8 1BN
dwarfed by Haribo factory behind, it is now a pub, club, gig venue and established events venue. It has regular entertainment from bands, artists and other entertainers. There is a pool club on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 19:00. The exterior has recently been upgraded and new pictures will be posted shortly.