The Fox and Goose
@foxandgoose.org
West Yorkshire's first community-owned pub. We celebrate local brewers. 7 Heptonstall Road, Hebden Bridge. HX7 6AZ. info@foxandgoose.org
The hills are alive.
Better late than never. Here are a few shots from Saturday in Hebden Bridge.
The @foxandgoose.org was looking great, followed by a very cold pint outside the Oldgate. People say the first weekend after NYE is quiet, but Hebden was heaving. #BskyBeer
The @foxandgoose.org was looking great, followed by a very cold pint outside the Oldgate. People say the first weekend after NYE is quiet, but Hebden was heaving. #BskyBeer
January 6, 2026 at 7:25 PM
The hills are alive.
Sadly the historic Stubbing Wharf pub visited by Plath, Hughes and latterly Haslam ceased trading on Jan 2, citing financial difficulties caused by flooding, a prolonged road closure and rising prices. It's tough out there. 🙁
Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes visited a pub in Hebden Bridge. So I went there too, last year, 65 years later. Here's my extended essay on their night out, the impossibility of happiness, kitchens as disputed territory, and Plath's love of chippy tea #sylviaplath
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Retracing Sylvia Plath’s visit to a Yorkshire pub
Christmas 1959.
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January 6, 2026 at 6:53 AM
Sadly the historic Stubbing Wharf pub visited by Plath, Hughes and latterly Haslam ceased trading on Jan 2, citing financial difficulties caused by flooding, a prolonged road closure and rising prices. It's tough out there. 🙁
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Had to break my journey at Hebden Bridge- what a place @foxandgoose.org is. Great pub,great beer
January 3, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Had to break my journey at Hebden Bridge- what a place @foxandgoose.org is. Great pub,great beer
How festive are we you ask?
Well, we're Barley Wine festive! 🌟❄️🌟
@redwillowbrewery.bsky.social Penny Less Barley Wine to be precise, fresh on this afternoon and promising decadent layers of chocolate, dates and figs.
Pop in if you're in the neighbourhood.
Well, we're Barley Wine festive! 🌟❄️🌟
@redwillowbrewery.bsky.social Penny Less Barley Wine to be precise, fresh on this afternoon and promising decadent layers of chocolate, dates and figs.
Pop in if you're in the neighbourhood.
December 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
How festive are we you ask?
Well, we're Barley Wine festive! 🌟❄️🌟
@redwillowbrewery.bsky.social Penny Less Barley Wine to be precise, fresh on this afternoon and promising decadent layers of chocolate, dates and figs.
Pop in if you're in the neighbourhood.
Well, we're Barley Wine festive! 🌟❄️🌟
@redwillowbrewery.bsky.social Penny Less Barley Wine to be precise, fresh on this afternoon and promising decadent layers of chocolate, dates and figs.
Pop in if you're in the neighbourhood.
Tomorrow! Some old time mountain music in #HebdenBridge
Fill your Christerval or whatever it is with some old time mountain music, courtesy of the excellent Square Peg. Sunday 28th at 4pm. #HebdenBridge
December 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Tomorrow! Some old time mountain music in #HebdenBridge
It's been lovely to see so many of you this Christmas; big shout to the Christmas Day constitutional crew.
If you're dropping by NYE and NYD, our opening times are below.
If you're dropping by NYE and NYD, our opening times are below.
We're looking forward to seeing your rosy cheeks this Christmas.
To ensure that we do, here are our opening times, including that important Christmas Day constitutional hydration slot.
#HebdenBridge
To ensure that we do, here are our opening times, including that important Christmas Day constitutional hydration slot.
#HebdenBridge
December 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It's been lovely to see so many of you this Christmas; big shout to the Christmas Day constitutional crew.
If you're dropping by NYE and NYD, our opening times are below.
If you're dropping by NYE and NYD, our opening times are below.
Fill your Christerval or whatever it is with some old time mountain music, courtesy of the excellent Square Peg. Sunday 28th at 4pm. #HebdenBridge
December 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Fill your Christerval or whatever it is with some old time mountain music, courtesy of the excellent Square Peg. Sunday 28th at 4pm. #HebdenBridge
New tees - get your nan one for Christmas. 🧑🎄🎅💡
December 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
New tees - get your nan one for Christmas. 🧑🎄🎅💡
Well hello there! 🖤
Look what's just come on.
Black Imp Imperial Stout aged in red wine barrels by @wishbonebrewery.bsky.social
Absolutely delicious.
We open at 2pm.
Look what's just come on.
Black Imp Imperial Stout aged in red wine barrels by @wishbonebrewery.bsky.social
Absolutely delicious.
We open at 2pm.
December 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Well hello there! 🖤
Look what's just come on.
Black Imp Imperial Stout aged in red wine barrels by @wishbonebrewery.bsky.social
Absolutely delicious.
We open at 2pm.
Look what's just come on.
Black Imp Imperial Stout aged in red wine barrels by @wishbonebrewery.bsky.social
Absolutely delicious.
We open at 2pm.
We're looking forward to seeing your rosy cheeks this Christmas.
To ensure that we do, here are our opening times, including that important Christmas Day constitutional hydration slot.
#HebdenBridge
To ensure that we do, here are our opening times, including that important Christmas Day constitutional hydration slot.
#HebdenBridge
December 14, 2025 at 7:08 AM
We're looking forward to seeing your rosy cheeks this Christmas.
To ensure that we do, here are our opening times, including that important Christmas Day constitutional hydration slot.
#HebdenBridge
To ensure that we do, here are our opening times, including that important Christmas Day constitutional hydration slot.
#HebdenBridge
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An event in Hebden Bridge celebrating 25 years of the CRoW Act spurs on the movement for further land access rights in England and Wales
By Andrew Bibby
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/right...
By Andrew Bibby
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Right to roam: taking the next step for access to the countryside
An event in Hebden Bridge celebrating 25 years of the CRoW Act spurs on the movement for further land access rights in England and Wales
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
An event in Hebden Bridge celebrating 25 years of the CRoW Act spurs on the movement for further land access rights in England and Wales
By Andrew Bibby
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/right...
By Andrew Bibby
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/right...
Tonight! 7-10pm!
The Bapchilds will be playing honky tonk western swing country music. With slide guitar, swing fiddle, four part harmony and a dash of Hank Williams. What’s not to like?
#HebdenBridge
The Bapchilds will be playing honky tonk western swing country music. With slide guitar, swing fiddle, four part harmony and a dash of Hank Williams. What’s not to like?
#HebdenBridge
December 7, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Tonight! 7-10pm!
The Bapchilds will be playing honky tonk western swing country music. With slide guitar, swing fiddle, four part harmony and a dash of Hank Williams. What’s not to like?
#HebdenBridge
The Bapchilds will be playing honky tonk western swing country music. With slide guitar, swing fiddle, four part harmony and a dash of Hank Williams. What’s not to like?
#HebdenBridge
PSA
We'll be closing early at 6pm on Wednesday 10th December so our lovely staff can go get their festive on at their Christmas party.
Thank you for your attention on this matter.
We'll be closing early at 6pm on Wednesday 10th December so our lovely staff can go get their festive on at their Christmas party.
Thank you for your attention on this matter.
December 7, 2025 at 5:59 AM
PSA
We'll be closing early at 6pm on Wednesday 10th December so our lovely staff can go get their festive on at their Christmas party.
Thank you for your attention on this matter.
We'll be closing early at 6pm on Wednesday 10th December so our lovely staff can go get their festive on at their Christmas party.
Thank you for your attention on this matter.
Hitting the pumps this weekend.
We have Christmas Kitty every year so this spiced vanilla porter should need no introduction, hope we've not overdone it by buying 3 casks. 🎅🐱
Blue Moon from Pictish is a classic full bodied British IPA, always a joy to drink. 1/2
#HebdenBridge
We have Christmas Kitty every year so this spiced vanilla porter should need no introduction, hope we've not overdone it by buying 3 casks. 🎅🐱
Blue Moon from Pictish is a classic full bodied British IPA, always a joy to drink. 1/2
#HebdenBridge
December 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Hitting the pumps this weekend.
We have Christmas Kitty every year so this spiced vanilla porter should need no introduction, hope we've not overdone it by buying 3 casks. 🎅🐱
Blue Moon from Pictish is a classic full bodied British IPA, always a joy to drink. 1/2
#HebdenBridge
We have Christmas Kitty every year so this spiced vanilla porter should need no introduction, hope we've not overdone it by buying 3 casks. 🎅🐱
Blue Moon from Pictish is a classic full bodied British IPA, always a joy to drink. 1/2
#HebdenBridge
This Saturday, a little light old time mountain music from Square Peg, should it tickle you.
#HebdenBridge
#HebdenBridge
December 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This Saturday, a little light old time mountain music from Square Peg, should it tickle you.
#HebdenBridge
#HebdenBridge
Ah well, now this is a nice thing. Reflections on favourite drinking spots, self, life and change.
Thinking on, should it be the objective of a pub to create such spaces, and to hold them as we and the world change around them?
No pressure then.
Thinking on, should it be the objective of a pub to create such spaces, and to hold them as we and the world change around them?
No pressure then.
Reposting this personal essay on ritual and loss for the late night crowd and friends in different time zones.
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Drink it in
Beer is full of quiet, private rituals and the places we return to. You never know, in the normal run of things, that you’re having your last drink in one of your special places, so it pays to savour ...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Ah well, now this is a nice thing. Reflections on favourite drinking spots, self, life and change.
Thinking on, should it be the objective of a pub to create such spaces, and to hold them as we and the world change around them?
No pressure then.
Thinking on, should it be the objective of a pub to create such spaces, and to hold them as we and the world change around them?
No pressure then.
Here at the Fox and Goose, we believe in the power of community to create thriving places.
This #CommunityBusinessWeek, let's celebrate all the businesses that make our towns, cities and communities vibrant, resilient and inclusive.
This #CommunityBusinessWeek, let's celebrate all the businesses that make our towns, cities and communities vibrant, resilient and inclusive.
December 2, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Here at the Fox and Goose, we believe in the power of community to create thriving places.
This #CommunityBusinessWeek, let's celebrate all the businesses that make our towns, cities and communities vibrant, resilient and inclusive.
This #CommunityBusinessWeek, let's celebrate all the businesses that make our towns, cities and communities vibrant, resilient and inclusive.
It's Community Business Week. Pubs are vital to communities and social cohesion, places where we can come together across divides in a warm and welcoming space.
We're proud to be a community-owned pub. If you haven't discovered us yet, do drop by. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
We're proud to be a community-owned pub. If you haven't discovered us yet, do drop by. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Can you have a community without craic? Scholars of Ireland’s pubs warn of declining numbers
Two new books analyse what makes the ‘perfect pub’ and both come to a sobering conclusion: Irish pubs are in trouble
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It's Community Business Week. Pubs are vital to communities and social cohesion, places where we can come together across divides in a warm and welcoming space.
We're proud to be a community-owned pub. If you haven't discovered us yet, do drop by. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
We're proud to be a community-owned pub. If you haven't discovered us yet, do drop by. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
It's #HebdenBridge Open Studios next weekend, here's a little taster of what's on offer.
Experience suggests that trawling studios for excellent art is thirsty work, while a pint can help facilitate reflection on your haul.
Experience suggests that trawling studios for excellent art is thirsty work, while a pint can help facilitate reflection on your haul.
Works in progress: inside Hebden Bridge Open Studios
In and around Hebden Bridge, artists will open their workshops this December: from printing to silverwork and more – meet some of the makers
By Philip O'Brien
In and around Hebden Bridge, artists will open their workshops this December: from printing to silverwork and more – meet some of the makers
By Philip O'Brien
Works in progress: inside Hebden Bridge Open Studios
In and around Hebden Bridge, artists will open their workshops this December: from printing to silverwork and more – meet some of the makers
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 AM
It's #HebdenBridge Open Studios next weekend, here's a little taster of what's on offer.
Experience suggests that trawling studios for excellent art is thirsty work, while a pint can help facilitate reflection on your haul.
Experience suggests that trawling studios for excellent art is thirsty work, while a pint can help facilitate reflection on your haul.
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HEBDEN BRIDGE CONFERENCE CALLS FOR MORE COUNTRYSIDE ACCESS: The anniversary this weekend of the 2000 Countryside & Rights of Way Act was marked with a national conference in Hebden Bridge which called for further government legislation on access to countryside. See HebWeb at www.hebdenbridge.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
HEBDEN BRIDGE CONFERENCE CALLS FOR MORE COUNTRYSIDE ACCESS: The anniversary this weekend of the 2000 Countryside & Rights of Way Act was marked with a national conference in Hebden Bridge which called for further government legislation on access to countryside. See HebWeb at www.hebdenbridge.co.uk
This weekend's Pick of the Pumps.
Be quick if you want the Centennial Simcoe or Lupulin Pastilles, they're both delicious and flying out.
And there's a reason Blimey, Chinook and Jamestown are all old favourites, they're all excellent and won't be on long either. 1/2
Be quick if you want the Centennial Simcoe or Lupulin Pastilles, they're both delicious and flying out.
And there's a reason Blimey, Chinook and Jamestown are all old favourites, they're all excellent and won't be on long either. 1/2
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This weekend's Pick of the Pumps.
Be quick if you want the Centennial Simcoe or Lupulin Pastilles, they're both delicious and flying out.
And there's a reason Blimey, Chinook and Jamestown are all old favourites, they're all excellent and won't be on long either. 1/2
Be quick if you want the Centennial Simcoe or Lupulin Pastilles, they're both delicious and flying out.
And there's a reason Blimey, Chinook and Jamestown are all old favourites, they're all excellent and won't be on long either. 1/2
Keep going along the towpath, cross the canal bridge by the Little Theatre, continue on the opposite towpath, taking a right at the next bridge, then take a left up the hill after the Co-op and we're on the right at the traffic lights.
You're welcome. 🍻
#HebdenBridge
You're welcome. 🍻
#HebdenBridge
Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, painting by Lucy Pittaway. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
November 28, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Keep going along the towpath, cross the canal bridge by the Little Theatre, continue on the opposite towpath, taking a right at the next bridge, then take a left up the hill after the Co-op and we're on the right at the traffic lights.
You're welcome. 🍻
#HebdenBridge
You're welcome. 🍻
#HebdenBridge
*glances out of the window at the gloom
We do keep banging on about the contents of our dark pump but by crikey, this Black Porter from @wishbonebrewery.bsky.social is looking pretty damn appealing as we slide towards the weekend.
We do keep banging on about the contents of our dark pump but by crikey, this Black Porter from @wishbonebrewery.bsky.social is looking pretty damn appealing as we slide towards the weekend.
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
*glances out of the window at the gloom
We do keep banging on about the contents of our dark pump but by crikey, this Black Porter from @wishbonebrewery.bsky.social is looking pretty damn appealing as we slide towards the weekend.
We do keep banging on about the contents of our dark pump but by crikey, this Black Porter from @wishbonebrewery.bsky.social is looking pretty damn appealing as we slide towards the weekend.
Thinking of saving your pub? We did.
@camraofficial.bsky.social now has the second of three short films online with communities who have already done so learn.camra.org.uk/courses/the-...
So far its Community Owned Pubs series features London's Antwerp Arms and Yorkshire's Travellers Rest.
@camraofficial.bsky.social now has the second of three short films online with communities who have already done so learn.camra.org.uk/courses/the-...
So far its Community Owned Pubs series features London's Antwerp Arms and Yorkshire's Travellers Rest.
Community Owned Pubs: The Antwerp Arms
learn.camra.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Thinking of saving your pub? We did.
@camraofficial.bsky.social now has the second of three short films online with communities who have already done so learn.camra.org.uk/courses/the-...
So far its Community Owned Pubs series features London's Antwerp Arms and Yorkshire's Travellers Rest.
@camraofficial.bsky.social now has the second of three short films online with communities who have already done so learn.camra.org.uk/courses/the-...
So far its Community Owned Pubs series features London's Antwerp Arms and Yorkshire's Travellers Rest.
Want to stay up to date with what's happening at the Fox?
Our lovely members and staff produce a quarterly newsletter. Just contact info@foxandgoose.org to subscribe by email.
Huge thanks to Katch Skinner for the Autumn newsletter sketch.
Our lovely members and staff produce a quarterly newsletter. Just contact info@foxandgoose.org to subscribe by email.
Huge thanks to Katch Skinner for the Autumn newsletter sketch.
November 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Want to stay up to date with what's happening at the Fox?
Our lovely members and staff produce a quarterly newsletter. Just contact info@foxandgoose.org to subscribe by email.
Huge thanks to Katch Skinner for the Autumn newsletter sketch.
Our lovely members and staff produce a quarterly newsletter. Just contact info@foxandgoose.org to subscribe by email.
Huge thanks to Katch Skinner for the Autumn newsletter sketch.