The 7 best village pubs around Horsham, according to CAMRA's Good Beer Guide 2024

The guide – the definitive beer drinker’s guide for those seeking the best pints in the nation’s pubs – is celebrating its 51st edition this year.

The guide, which is published annually by CAMRA, helps beer lovers take a barometer of the local and national beer scene. As well as covering 197 of the very best pubs across Surrey and Sussex, it keeps track of brewery numbers, and notes a net loss of five breweries across the counties.

This year’s guide contains 910 newly featured pubs, despite the pub trade struggling to stay afloat in recent years following the pandemic and rising fuel costs. To order The Good Beer Guide 2024, visit https://shop1.camra.org.uk/product/the-good-beer-guide-2024/

CAMRA chairman Nik Antona said: “The last few years have been an incredibly difficult time for the industry, and we need more support than ever before to keep our nation’s pubs and breweries open and thriving. I’d encourage everyone to use this year’s guide to visit the very best pubs and breweries across the UK and support them for generations to come.”

In a foreword by Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson he shines a light on the cultural tradition of pubs within Britain, the importance of protecting the heritage, charm and welcoming nature of pubs and clubs, and not taking them for granted.

The guide surveys 4,500 of the best pubs across the UK, including Horsham. Most of the pubs in Horsham town centre feature in the guide, but here we focus on pubs in villages in the district.