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Campaign for Real Ale

Campaign for Real Ale

Black Bull

7 Market Place
Donington
PE11 4ST
Emailmoc.liamg@llubkcalbj.l Telephone(01775) 822228
Real AleReal FireFamily FriendlyGardenLunchtime MealsEvening MealsGamesParkingSmokingRestaurantFunction RoomWiFi
Opening times: Mon closed; Tue–Sat 12:00-23:30; Sun 12:00-20:00
Regular beers: Batemans XB, Sharp's Doom Bar

See more about this pub on WhatPub, CAMRA's national pub guide.

Busy local just off the A52. Five handpumps feature two regular beers and occasionally two varying guest beers from small brewers as well as large regionals. The comfortable bar has low-beamed ceilings, wooden settles and a cosy fire in winter. The restaurant offers a good choice of reasonably-priced evening meals; lunches are served in the bar. Tables in the car park are used for outdoor drinking. Buses run from Boston and Spalding (not Sun). Due to the return in 2024 of the remains of Captain Matthew Flinders, navigator and cartographer, born 1774, to his birthplace, Donington, the pubi s intending to have an exclusive beer named in his honour, brewed by Batemans.