The Drax Arms
West Street, Bere Regis, Wareham, Dorset BH20 7HH
Tel: 01929 471386
Located in the heart of Bere Regis, The Drax
Arms sits beside a hill if you take your pint
into the beer garden, you can actually look over
the roof of the inn to the tower of the fine old
church and the Dorset countryside beyond. The pub is
an appealing old building dating back to 1610 with a traditional interior with inglenook
fireplaces, beamed ceilings, lots of gleaming brass,
vintage photographs of the village even a piano. Mine
hosts Tim and Sonya Sadd took over here in the spring
of 2005 and 
quickly established a reputation for
serving appetising home-made food.
The menu offers dishes such as local venison sausages and local fresh fish along with familiar
pub favourites like the steaks, pies, soups and
ploughman's lunches. Food is served every lunchtime and evening,
and to accompany your meal there's a good choice of
beverages including Hall & Woodhouse real ales, other draught
lagers and ciders, wines, spirits and soft drinks. Children
are welcome; so too are well-behaved pets. In the village
itself, the main attraction is St John's Church with its
magnificent hammerbeam roof and tombs of the Turberville
family whose name was borrowed by Hardy for his novel
Tess of the Durbervilles.
