South-East meet up - Essex Hertfordshire Area

[Kateg28]

I go to the Feathers a lot and there is enough parking space (and another pub directly opposite if we change our minds). Issue is that makes it a long journey for Andy from Surrey. I am happy to travel but we need to find somewhere we can all compromise on.

[andyj]

I go to the Feathers a lot and there is enough parking space (and another pub directly opposite if we change our minds). Issue is that makes it a long journey for Andy from Surrey. I am happy to travel but we need to find somewhere we can all compromise on.

Thanks for consideration Kate. Yes, Ware is really getting a bit far for me to travel to ...even further than Epping!

[Deadly_smell]

How about somewhere like this, a bit closer to surrey

http://www.woodmanchippingongar.co.uk/

or here

http://www.towerarms.co.uk/

or somewhere further south like Chatham or around Sevenoaks ?

[EppingMk1SC]

How about somewhere like this, a bit closer to surrey

http://www.woodmanchippingongar.co.uk/

or here
http://www.towerarms.co.uk/



or somewhere further south like Chatham or around Sevenoaks ?

well...

Chipping Ongar is nice, but I'm pretty easy. So, Andy name your M25 junction...

[andyj]

Thanks for being so flexible. Clearly much more convenient for you lot if it's Essex/Herts. M25 area. Makes sense for me to go over bridge/tunnel rather than you all to come south. So is there anywhere sort of junction 28 to 29 ...or just north of junction 28 (not as far north as Chipping Ongar)? Kate ...Google search ...or I can do it.

[Deadly_smell]

This place is just a couple of miles from junction 28/A12 Brentwood

http://www.towerarms.co.uk/

Take junction 28/A1023 brook st towards Brentwood first left pub at the end of the road about mile and a half from the M25

[EppingMk1SC]

This place is just a couple of miles from junction 28/A12 Brentwood

http://www.towerarms.co.uk/

Take junction 28/A1023 brook st towards Brentwood first left pub at the end of the road about mile and a half from the M25

Ooh! I know this place! I had a run in with a deer when in my MX5, it hit a glancing blow in my offside rear wing, causing me to nearly have a heart attack, and I remember checking for damage in the car park of this pub. Looks nice, and is a reasonable compromise distance wise hopefully. Gets my vote.

[Kateg28]

Yep, am happy with that.

[Deadly_smell]

Anybody else up for this. if the car park for the pub gets full the south weald country park is 100yrds down the road with plenty of room (left at the end of the road instead of right to the pub) although the walk from the park to the pub can be difficult due to the hill and lack of pavement.
Weald road is also a great twisty hilly road to drive as well but only a couple of miles long.

[andyj]

Yes, this looks quite a good location. Thanks for research. Checked and yes, it does real ales ...so I'm OK!!

BTW if you click through to "find us" on the pub website it shows wrong postcode. Postcode is CM14 5QJ as on the homepage not CM14 4QZ as shown on "find us" page. The latter is a residential road in Brentwood! So for satnavs it's CM14 5QJ as per the homepage.