Love Your Local: The Royal Hill, a proper Shropshire Country pub with river views.

Shropshire Star

The Royal Hill between Shrewsbury and Oswestry is a proper country pub with river views, character, charm, log fires and a landlady who is passionate about the pub, the building and its customers, well she would be as she's been involved since she was 13 years old.

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00:00Here at the Royal Hill Pub in Edgley. It's a love your local time and Kelly Jones you're the boss.

00:07Yes. What a special pub you've got. I've never been here myself. It's just oozing character isn't it?

00:13Oh it's fantastic yeah definitely. So there's a little story yourself. You've been here since

00:18you were 13. You weren't an early drinker. I started working here when I was 13 yeah definitely.

00:25I've been a landlady for five years now. Yeah so you're from the area. You live just down

00:32well you live here now but you used to live just down the road didn't you?

00:36Yeah I grew up born and bred half a mile down the road. Yeah and this isn't just a job to you

00:41is it? We've been having a little chat and your passion for the pub is evident really.

00:47This is a lifestyle isn't it for you? The customers, the building. It means a lot to you.

00:53Yeah. What is it that if you had to describe your pub to someone to a townie in inner city Birmingham

01:00how would you describe this pub the Royal Hill? Oh there's plenty of stories in this pub and

01:08there's character and it's just you can feel the heart when you come in. The fire's warm,

01:15the people are laughing. The beer's great and there's so much character and the customers

01:21have been here for many years and they've got plenty of stories. And you said you've got some

01:26nice Shropshire ales on so you're supporting that kind of local brewery side of things,

01:30the three tons, Salopian and so on. You were saying it's a proper pub you know when customers

01:37come in you want to say hello, you want to make them feel welcome, have a chat, how you doing,

01:41how's your day been? Yeah definitely. I think you know you should connect with the customer you know

01:48and that's what they're here they're here to chill out and to relax as well so you know have

01:53a cup of coffee have a nice beer yeah and just chill out and have a chat and that's what a

01:59traditional pub is for I believe. Yeah you've got that a lot of nice big windows here and that big

02:06room with the panoramic windows which makes the the most of your amazing setting right next to

02:11the River Severn. Yes definitely. And you've got the great beer garden out there. I love that little

02:17covered area a little yeah so even in in the rain you can get under there and you know got the views

02:22you've got the river yeah it's fantastic yeah. Now there is one downside to living next to a river

02:27and we'll flash up a little bit of video we've got and that's your partner Andy he's driving

02:31what do we call it the flood bus? The flood bus yeah. So how often is are you getting cut off on

02:35that direction with a bit of road there? I would say about four times a year. Yeah and when you

02:42four times a year that's a lot back you know back when you was a nipper working here it wasn't

02:46wouldn't have been that often then would it? I don't think so um it was a lot less but they would

02:52um they would come and they would stay for a week or so whereas now it's it's um they come

02:59more regularly but it comes up and then in a couple of days it's gone it's got yeah god you

03:04know it helps our pub a lot. Yeah so you've got that flood bus so that enables Andy to jump in

03:11it and go and pick up the punters. Yeah he goes and picks up the punters. And you were saying so it

03:15was flooded last Sunday but Andy got the flood bus revved up and you still managed to do how many

03:21covers? We did 80 covers on the Sunday lunch. Look at that. It was brilliant Andy was back and forth.

03:28Yeah yeah a full day's room. Yeah and uh you've got some lovely quirky features in the pub as a

03:35country pub should have the the brassies the taxidermy you've got a a room for um people

03:40into the games we've got a darts board and yeah pool yeah a couple of pool tables fantastic

03:47and um so there's no sign of you going anywhere this is your home yeah i think yeah this is um

03:53home definitely it's a very special pub we were trying to work out the royal hill there's not

03:58many pubs with a name like that but there's probably a story in there but that's still

04:02to be uncovered isn't it yeah um if anyone knows anything yeah brilliant to let me know um

04:08you don't understand why it's called the royal hill yeah but uh it's definitely unique yeah yeah

04:14and you've got a piano room what are your piano skills like yeah not very good um yeah one day we

04:21you know we should learn have you got any regulars who can play um the tune on the old Joanna yeah

04:26there's a few regulars um we actually have our own band called the royal hillbillies yeah okay uh so

04:33one plays the piano we've got two guitarists yeah what singer and they play on every new

04:38year's eve for us and they are local men awesome um that yeah so they're here on new year's eve

04:44that's fantastic and you have different events on you you have um pool competitions and what are

04:50some of the events you have going on uh pool competition we even have a monthly 5k uh run

04:56yeah we what else do we have um musicians i've seen on your board yeah and quiz quiz nights and

05:03all that uh bingo yeah so there's there's always something doing yeah i did clock your 5k run

05:10poster actually yeah that's very busy actually yeah started off like a park run event and then

05:16yeah just um yeah it works we get very busy actually fantastic and i heard you mentioned

05:22carvery you do a carvery do you carvery um yes so we do two sittings on a sunday 12 30 and two

05:29o'clock um yeah they are very very popular well thank you for letting us come down and um share

05:35the share the pub with our readers and watch us on online and um all the best kelly and if you if

05:42you haven't been to the royal hill guys it's only a short hop from shrewsbury um it's absolutely

05:48using my character as a proper country pub should be sadly disappearing but it's it's alive and well

05:53here at the royal hill so thank you kelly and we wish you all the best in the future excellent

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