The Talbot Inn ● Directions

On the Saturday after the wedding we would love to invite you to The Talbot Inn for a spot of Luncheon before the long drive back home.  The Talbot is a lovely picturesque pub set out in the country with exceptional food, hospitality and surrounds, and definitely worth a visit.

Please let us know if you can attend as soon as possible as we will have to reserve tables.

The Talbot Inn, Mells

Run by a particularly convivial licensee, this popular 15th-Centaury coaching inn is reached through an informally planted cobbled courtyard where there are cane chairs around tables. An attractive room leads off here, and has stripped pews, mate's and wheelback chairs, fresh flowers and candles in bottles on the mix of tables, and sporting and riding pictures on the walls, which are partly stripped above a broad panelled dado, and partly rough terracotta-colour. A small corridor leads to a nice little room with an open fire and piped music.  The Inn supports well kept Bass, Butcombe Bitter, and a changing weekly guest beer tapped from the cask, good wines and well chosen staff.

The two-roomed public bar has an appealing room nearest the road with big stripped shutters, a high dark green ceiling, a mix of chairs and a tall box settle, candles in bottles on the stubby pine tables, and a rough wooden floor.  The locals' room has sports trophies, darts, cribbage, dominoes, and simple furnishings plus a skittle alley.  

The village was purchased by the Horner family of the 'Little Jack Horner' nursery rhyme and the direct descendants still live in the manor house next door. The inn is surrounded by lovely countryside and good walks.

For more information please visit www.talbotinn.com

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Directions

Leave Orchardleigh House and turn left (going in the opposite direction from when you arrived).  Proceed for 1.5 miles until you exit the Estate between two small stone lodges with black wrought iron gates (smaller than the entrance).  Turn left and take the first right signed to Mells.  Proceed down this country road for 2.5 miles, through Great Elms and into Mells.  At the T junction in Mells turn right, follow road round past the Post Office and The Talbot Inn is on the right behind a large stone wall and arched entrance with gate.  The Inn sign hangs outside the wall.