British Lion — Restaurant in England

A proper free house pub - if you want a good pint and to understand what what truly makes the people of Devizes tick, you go here. It's a pub where you go to find someone to mend a fence, fix a motorbike, buy your clapped out MOT failure of a car...

The board at the darker end of the bar is numbered 1-4; cask ales of varying strength. So long as you can still utter the number of the beverage you need, it will still be pulled for you unless it has already been drunk dry...

Despite first impressions not being as brightly lit and lemon-fresh as soulless new establishments, this pub is where you need to be. Conversation is what happens here. Phones are seldom the digital block between drinkers. If you want to know local stories and facts, just ask someone, they'll give you the inside line...

If you enter into the place open minded, you'll want to come back time and again. You will find yourself sulking that the next pub you go to isn't as fine as...

Been going in here for years. Great pub, so I thought, real ales, traditional values friendly and welcoming etc.

Sadly won't be going again after being 'told off' for talking too loudly in a nearly empty pub on a Wednesday afternoon. No bad language, we were only talking about rugby.

As 2 older hard of hearing older gents,one with 2 hearing aids (from birth) and one with one hearing aid, it's hard to talk in whispers, Especially with background noise so maybe we needed to raise the volume to make ourselves heard across the table. But no one was on adjacent tables for us to upset and even if they're were surely we are aloud to talk the same as anyone else.

We felt discriminated against and extremely uncomfortable being singled out in front of other customers even after explaining we were both deaf. Sadly will not...

Great little free house close to the centre of Devizes. Plenty of space inside and a large garden to the rear. Excellent selection of (usually four) real ales. Competitively priced (££3 / £3.20 for the weaker beers) as well as being in their own oversized glasses (see photo). When we visited they had just started their Oktober Festival with four German bottled beers. Staff (owners) were very pleasant and engaging. No food (apart from snacks) or TV, there was a juke box but even when it was on it did not interfere with the conversation. Would...