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The Anchor Bleu Pub Bosham in West Sussex  

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The Anchor Bleu.
Old Bosham, West Sussex.

Your Hosts: Mark & Kate Walford

Hours of opening: 11.30am - 11pm
(Winter closing between 3pm-6pm)
Tel: 01243 573956

"It's a fabulous spot.."
The Daily Telegraph
Also featured in:
The Good Pub Guide
Yachting Monthly
and more..


Better to have been a fisherman at Bosham, my good Herbert. Thy birthplace, the sea creek, the petty rill that falls into it the green field, the grey church the simple lobster basket and the mesh. Alfred, Lord Tennyson.


Bosham Quay area
Bosham Quay area
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Front Terrace of the Anchor
Front Terrace of the Anchor
bosham church
Holy Trinity, almost next door
The real ales, fine wines, fresh food & seafood are very good indeed.
Fast friendly Service
Fast friendly Service
Terrace Sea Views
Terrace Sea Views

Easy parking (but watch the tide!)
Your Hosts Mark & Kate are both very fine Chefs (as you can see from these pics)
bosham harbour
Rear of the Anchor (tide in!)

Quality cuisine at Pub prices.


Lovely "Olde Worlde" interior
Friendly Staff - this is Jo
Friendly Staff
Friendly Locals
Friendly Locals
Cheerful service
Cheerful service

Food served inside & out

Warm summer nights!

Children welcome most areas

Kate at the bar

And then for a good walk in the beautiful village of Bosham.

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As featured in The Daily Telegraph

British pub guide: The Anchor Bleu, West Sussex
Our guide to British pubs. This week: The Anchor Bleu, West Sussex.  By Jonathan Goodall 23 Jan 2009

Back in the Seventies my parents owned a boat in Bosham. For us children, the most effective "cure" for post-traumatic sailing disorder was nursing a bottle of Cresta and a packet of Monster Munch on the garden wall outside The Anchor Bleu. It felt strange to venture inside on a return visit many years later.

As you step down inside The Anchor, the bulging, beamed ceiling brushing the head of anyone much over six feet. There's a worn flagstone floor in the dimly lit bar area where the pump handles are reflected in the burnished brass counter. In the two cosy dining areas twin fireplaces warm the cockles (not to mention the seafood gratin tartlets) of a closely packed, merry throng. And what's this? It seems they let children in these days.

The Anchor's fare ranges from Thai crab cakes to smoked haddock, prawn and leek pie. The lobster and Cognac pâté made my Seventies reverie complete. We had a three-day week back then but now a record six pubs are closing every day. The Anchor, thankfully, doesn't feel like it will be one of them.

We head through to the back of the pub where a foot-thick steel flood door opens onto a charming waterside terrace. Most of Bosham's pretty high street backs onto a tidal creek. At high tide the water laps at the defensive garden walls, submerging any cars left by the unwary. It kept us endlessly entertained as children.

Today, on a bitterly cold evening, a silver moon shines weakly on the flat, silent water. Our visible breath mingles with fragrant wood smoke from a nearby chimney as we gaze across the pewter sea at the flint cottages on the other side. Swans glide between rows of boats and incongruously fluorescent orange buoys.

It's a fabulous spot to enjoy the real ales served here – Ringwood Fortyniner, Butcombe Bitter, Hogs Back's TEA (Traditional English Ale) and Sharp's Doom Bar on this occasion.

They say King Canute chose Bosham for his Turning-Back-The-Sea routine – and you have to be careful how you say that after a couple of Fortyniners. But just for the record, it's pronounced "Bozzum".

The Anchor Bleu, The High Street, Bosham, West Sussex (01243 573956)


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