A pub in Abingdon has won CAMRA's town and village pub of the year award for the first time.
The Broad Face is a Greene King-owned pub, with Joshua Khan running the business.
The manager is Kealey Hitchings, who has worked at the pub in Bridge Street for the past eight years.
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Although the pub is owned by the brewing company it is free to sell any cask ales.
It's the only pub in the country with this name, with a pub sign that often makes passers-by stop to look.
One theory about the name says it shows the hangman or one of the prisoners at what used to be a jail across the road, and that it represents a body recovered from the nearby River Thames.
Mr Khan – who also runs the King Charles Tavern in Newbury and the Great Shefford near Hungerford – said: “This award is long awaited, and a tribute to Kealey and her team.
"Real ales are the heart and soul of our pub, and we have between six and eight available even during January and February, both local and national brands.”
A recent selection at The Broad Face included Oakham Citra, Dark Star Hophead, Lovebeer’s Doctor Roo, and White Horse Black Beauty and Village Idiot, and there are often beers from other local breweries including Abingdon’s own Loose Cannon, and Little Ox.
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All three of Mr Khan’s pubs are in the Good Beer Guide.
City Pub of the Year was again the Royal Blenheim in Oxford, while first place in the Beer of the Festival award, as voted by a tasting panel at the Town Hall event in October, was Yabba Dabba Doo by Little Ox.
CAMRA's awards night was attended by about 40 people to the upstairs room of the White House on Abingdon Road, Oxford, where the event was held for the first time.
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In addition to the Pub of the Year winners and Beers of the Festival, awards were also given to the Jolly Farmers in Oxford marking 40 years as an LGBT+ pub, and to Tap Social (operator of the White House) to recognise its pioneering work with ex-prisoners, many of whom it has helped back into employment having developed various skills working in the brewery or kitchen.
Tap Social has its headquarters on the Curtis industrial estate off Botley Road.
The previous winner of CAMRA's Town and Village Pub of the Year was the Brewery Tap in Abingdon.
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