A visit to the Bath Arms at Shearwater [WFJ #75]

This week – with new owners, and after more than a year of intensive refurb – the area essentially gains a new pub

Since Monday, and for the first time in about four and a half years, The Bath Arms at Shearwater – or, more accurately, in the village of Crockerton – is back open for service. 

What was previously a bit of a “rundown” boozer (as the head builder tells me) has been painstakingly restored more in line with what it looked like in the 1600s, a process that’…