The Railway Inn, Ketton awarded Pub of the Year

Saturday, 12 April 2025 09:59

Source: Rutland & Stamford Sound Facebook page

Ketton’s Railway Inn was presented with Rutland CAMRA Pub of the Year award last night as it was one of four pubs of the season across the year.

They won Pub of the Year itself three times in the last four and been awarded Pub of the Region twice, which also includes Leicestershire and Northamptonshire up to 1100 hostelries. Chairman of Rutland CAMRA Rich Harris says we're lucky to have so many great pubs locally and it's an ongoing judging process through their members' visits.

‘The three pubs that achieved the highest average beer scores for that period then go onto our pub of the season shortlist. Then we ask our members to go out and judge those three pubs according to CAMRA’s Pub of the Year judging criteria, which is primarily beer quality. Also the cleanliness and hygiene of the pub, the knowledge of the staff when it comes to beers, the atmosphere in the pub, the welcome that you get, all of the other attributes that a good pub has to make it a welcoming environment. The Railway was judged our pub of the season. I think for the spring period we ended up with obviously three other pubs of the season which were the Plough at Greetham, The Plough in Caldecott and the Wheatsheaf in Oakham. So three really worthy runners up and we are very fortunate in Rutland to have such. You know, there's a load of other pubs I could name that we're worthy of getting on to winning pub of the season’.