Just 4.5miles from Meadow Cottage you will find country pub, The Drovers Inn.

The Drovers Inn was rescued from closure in the year 2000 by Ringwood Brewery then sympathetically refurbished using English Oak & earth tone colours. We have been running the Drovers since 2002 and strive to offer a traditional British country pub.

The Drovers is very much there for its customers and all walks of life are equally catered for. We do not have a restaurant area and we do not lay tables up, our tables are rustic scrubbed oak and are customers are welcome to use those tables for eating, drinking beer or reading the newspaper. We do take table reservations for dinning customers but we will never ask customers to vacate tables for the next booking, or take there pint and newspaper to the bar so that we can sit dinners.

We firmly believe that the heart of the Drovers is its cross section of customers and that you cannot have a country pub with dinners alone drinkers breath life into a pub. That said we are extremely passionate about food and try to source our food locally and responsibly using seasonal produce that is readily available to us in this amazing part of the country. With a monthly main menu & a daily specials board we are able to maintain not only seasonal but also very local dishes which we put together in our kitchen.

It has been a long journey since 2002 and we definitely have a lot further to go but we are very proud of our ‘food ethics’ and what we produce from our kitchen from daily home baked bread to homemade pasta dishes not forgetting our staple dishes that have been with us for nearly ten years but still remain frim customer favourites, Homemade Steak & Kidney Pie, Homemade burgers and the famous Drovers Fish & Chips.

Opening Times

Monday to Friday 
12 noon until 3:00 p.m. & 6:00 p.m. until 11:00p.m.
Saturday 
Open all day
Sunday 
Open all day