The Bush Inn is a Grade II listed public house in St Hilary, near Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales. The current inn dates to the 16th century. It has a thatched roof, thick stone walls, low oak beams, flagstone floors, old pews, a stone spiral staircase, and an inglenook fireplace.[1] The benches outside the pub look across to the Church of St Hilary.[2]
Iolo Morganwg was known to have visited the pub. The Rough Guide to Wales praised its food and "cosy" atmosphere.[3] Egon Ronay's Lucas Guide in the late 1970s said "People come from Cardiff and Swansea to St Hilary for the sake of this stone-built thatched pub, which offers table skittles or darts in the tile-floored public bar."[4] The Automobile Association named the Bush Inn "Welsh Pub of the Year 2008/9".[5]
- ^ Jones, Richard (2004). Haunted Inns of Britain & Ireland. Barnes & Noble Books. p. 134–5. ISBN 978-0-7607-6111-3.
- ^ AA Publishing (30 September 2007). Pub Guide 2008. Trafalgar Square. p. 758. ISBN 978-0-7495-5298-5. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
- ^ Parker, Mike; Whitfield, Paul (1 August 2003). The Rough Guide to Wales. Rough Guides. p. 132. ISBN 978-1-84353-120-3. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
- ^ Ronay, Egon (1977). Egon Ronay's Lucas Guide ... to Hotels, Restaurants, Inns in Great Britain and Ireland. Egon Ronay Organization. p. 753. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
- ^ "The Bush Inn", St. Hilary Community Website, archived from the original on 17 April 2015, retrieved 27 May 2017