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The Bellhouse (Shepherd Neame)

Beer (sort)Average Score (sort)No. Samples (sort)
Leigh on Sea - Legra PaleExcellent1
Shepherd Neame - Master Brew BitterNot Tried0

Visits Details

06 Sep 2025 (Hogan Sampling)
4th stop on the outing: Busy on the outside front and side garden areas on this splendid Indian summer's day for our late afternoon arrival and so very empty on the inside. Accompanied by many of the SE London CAMRA branch still with us following the awarded certificate to Leigh on Sea Brewery for the beer voted most popular at SE London CAMRA's 2025 beer festival held in May at Dulwich Hamlet Football Club and where 1,200 thirsty visitors drank the festival's cask beer, cider and perry dry by its last day. Warm and prompt service at this historic drinking hole.
BeerABVScoreNotes
Leigh on Sea - Legra Pale3.80ExcellentVery good head and lacing on this local brew from Leigh on Sea Brewery just some 15 minutes' trot away, and lasting throughout. This microbrewery was founded in 2017 and has its own taproom which features in CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide. A very fruited hoppy first bite. A good hoppiness rising and a grapefruit flavoured fruitiness carrying out somersaults on my taste buds. A moreishly hoppy bitter dryness lingering before its final passage and aided by its Maris Otter and Torrified Wheat malts. This is an American style pale ale that is dry-hopped with Citra hops. It was Leigh on Sea Brewery’s first brewed beer (in August 2017) and now their best selling and most awarded. The brewery worked out that Legra was an anagram of lager but has remained so named!
Shepherd Neame - Master Brew Bitter3.70Not Tried

About The Bellhouse

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The pub is found in Eastwood, Essex, SS9 5PX.

The Bellhouse dating from the 15th century and by all accounts, it was King Henry VIII's hunting lodge, is at Eastwood, north of Leigh-on-Sea, at 321 Rayleigh Road. It is well set back from Rayleigh Road for it not to be too intrusive. It is a Shepherd Neame house with much of it set out for dining on a visit in early September 2025. Two real ales on, unsurprisingly one from Shepherd Neame, and pleasingly the other from the local microbrewery, Leigh-on-Sea Brewery, some 15 minutes’ trot away and set off Progress Road. Still retaining its wooden beams in the traditional bar area and flagstone flooring giving it that olde worlde feel. The areas around are laid out for dining and the so-named “children’s room” is the disabled/baby changing facility. Dog-friendly certainly outside the dining areas that were visited.

We have visited this pub once, seen 2 different beers and tried 1 of them.

Map location

Postcode: SS9 5PX