This comfortable town pub has recently reopened after being brought by local pub company, Thorley Taverns, and has reverted to its pre 60s name, after being known as the Barnaby Rudge after the Dickens novel, which was partly, wrote in the nearby Archway house. The pub started life in 1830 as the British Tar and was known as the George by 1849. Thorley Taverns has given the place the company's trade mark look and up to four real ales are now served.