Your hosts Fred and Denise Thomas
welcome you to the Slip Tavern.
Opening Hours
Daytime
Tuesday – Saturday, 11.30 – 2.30
With a full lunch menu
Sunday, 12 – 3pm
With a Roast lunch menu
Evening
Tuesday – Thursday, 6pm – 11.30pm.
Dinner served 6.30 – 9pm
Friday, 5pm – 11.30pm.
Dinner served 6.30 – 9pm
Saturday, 6 – 11.30pm.
Dinner served 6.30 – 9pm
Phone us to book a table. 01531 660246
We have a cosy bar area, with a roaring fire in the winter.
We are ideal for intimate dining, small groups or parties and anniversaries. We have a lovely conservatory and extensive patio and gardens for those summer evenings.
We serve real ales from the cask and usually have Black Sheep and at least one local guest ale.
If you like coffee the Slip Tavern is the place for you. Fred takes pride in providing the finest coffee money can buy. We open early on Friday evenings – the perfect time to call in for a coffee at the end of a long week. Or come and relax before dinner – perfect if you are a guest at one of our local bed and breakfast establishments.
Live Music
Jazz Evening on the second Wednesday evening of each month.
Folk on the first Thursday of each month
Events
Taste of the Caribbean. 26 July. 5pm – midnight. Caribbean street food menu, steel band. Please book in advance by phoning Fred or Denise on 01531 660246.
Our Name
Why are we called the Slip Tavern? We are named after the Much Marcle Slip.
On the 17th February 1575 a very remarkable landslip occurred here: on the evening of that day Marcle Hill began to move, and in its progress overthrew the chapel at Kinnaston, together with hedges and trees and after destroying many cattle finally rested at its present position on the 19th.
Camden gives the following account: “near the conflux of Lug and the Wye, east, a hill which they call Marclay Hill did in the year 1575 rouse itself as it were out of sleep and for three days together shoving shoving its prodigious body forward with a horrible roaring noise and overturning everything in its way, raised itself to the great astonishment of the beholders, to a higher place.
The place where this hill originally stood is now a chasm 40ft deep and 400ft in length. About 1840 during the ploughing of the site of the landslip at a place called “The Wonder” the bell of Old Kinnaston Chapel was unearthed and brought to Sir James Kyrle Money, Lord of the Manor, who placed it in the tower of Homme House, where it still hangs.
