The Three Horseshoes, Bighton

An 18th-century Grade II listed coaching inn just outside Alresford, serving Bighton since at least the 17th century and now home to a modern British menu, local ales, and a genuine welcome for families and dogs.

There are pubs that have been serving Alresford and its villages for a generation. The Three Horseshoes in Bighton has been doing it for the better part of three centuries. Bighton itself goes back further than most people would guess. The village's earliest written record dates to 959 AD, when King Eadwig granted ten hides of land at "Bicincgtun", likely meaning Bica's farm, to the New Minster at Winchester. For centuries afterwards, the village sat on the main road between Winchester and Westminster, effectively the medieval equivalent of a motorway, carrying kings, queens, bishops, armies,...