A traditional country pub proudly serving quality home-cooked locally sourced food, cask ales and fine wines by our highly skilled, friendly team.
We welcome families and have an outdoor play area for the children. You can find the Shepherd just adjacent to Beamish Museum between Chester le Street and Stanley just off the A693 only 5 minutes from the A1 motorway. To find us, just follow the signs for Beamish Museum and we are located just to the right of the main entrance to the Museum.Our level access, disabled toilet and baby change facilities ensures a wide range of customers can enjoy our hospitality The C2C sustrans cycleway and walkways run adjacent to the Shepherd. Walkers and Cyclists are welcome and we have a large outside seating area with space to park your bike and enjoy well deserved drink or a bite to eat. Many caravaners have discovered the Shepherd and return year after year whilst staying at the numerous caravan parks located close to the Shepherd.We pride ourselves on traditional values with a friendly welcome and attentive service as well as the high quality and value of our home cooked food and our real ales, fine wines and warm, cosy atmosphere. We look forward to welcoming you to the Shepherd soon.
Very good pub food and ales, very reasonably priced, I've eaten here 3 times in the last 9 months while staying at the Campsite nearby and it's always consistently good quality.
Lovely tasty food, happy and efficient staff. Even the filter coffee was lovely. Mixed Grill £12:95 I would have happily paid £20. Everything too cheap for that quality and amount imo.
Situated just before the entrance to Beamish, this is a lovely gem of a pub. It is a traditional, no nonsense country pub with wholesome home cooked, delicious food. We visited on a Friday afternoon and it was easy enough to get seated. The staff were very friendly and there is a decent array of beers on tap. The menu isn’t extensive but has a nice choice of traditional pub meals such as steak, lasagne, gammon, corned beef pie etc. also has a kids menu. The staff took our food and drinks order at the table and the food was brought out within fifteen minutes. The home cooked chips were to die for! The only disappointment was the lack of ‘normal’ cola on tap. Prices very reasonable and we will definitely be back.
Went for Sunday lunch which was OK but nothing spectacular. We both had roast turkey, mine came with parsnips but no carrots and the other came with carrots but no parsnips. Quite a long wait for our meals too. At £10.95 it's not expensive however. They only would accept reservations up to 12:30, walk ins only after. It was very busy when we were there.
Saturday early evening at 5pm ish and the pub was packed. Great atmosphere. Super large lovely meals. Incredibly well priced. LOVED IT!!
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Beamish, Stanley, DH9