The Dragon ... Colgate
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OS Map : Landranger 187 · Map reference TQ 229 327
Description
Hall and Woodhouse pub with two bars, an open fire, and a large garden sheltered from the road. The garden is great on summer evenings after biking through St Leonard's Forest - when you know that you only have a short trip back to Horsham! I recommend the Steak and Tanglefoot Pie together with a pint of Pickled Partridge in winter months.
NEWS November 2009: The pub is closing from 25 November and Hall and Woodhouse are seeking a new business partner/tenant for the pub. See Colgate pub calls last orders from the West Sussex County Times.
How to get there
By car
Colgate is between Pease Pottage [near Junction 11 of the M23] and Roffey [north Horsham].
Cycle from Horsham centre up Kings Road to Crawley Road roundabout near the VW garage. Continue along Crawley Road to the traffic lights at the top and go straight ahead. The pub is on the right after 3.5 km / 2.2 miles [on the way to Pease Pottage and J11 of the M23] The road to Colgate is mostly quiet but it is narrow in places and some cars can be travelling fast.
Suggested cycling routes from here
If you are new to off-road biking and want somewhere to go that is near to Horsham, then you cannot beat St Leonard's Forest which has several bridleways and tracks. The Dragon is ideally situated and there is a great long, fast bridleway about 0.3 miles / 0.5 km west of the pub at 'The White House'. This bridleway connects with Hammerpond Road on the east side of Horsham and then with another bridleway which comes out on Hampers Lane off Comptons Lane.
Alternatively, come out of the pub and turn right and after 0.3 miles / 0.5 km on the left is a [mainly downhill] bridleway that comes out on the A264. Straight across the busy road, along a grassy bridleway between houses and over a railway line, is a great route that brings you back towards Faygate.
Another route is the bridleway between the B2110 [Handcross - Plummers Plain road] and the forest which has lots of variety and a great [yikes!] downhill section.
Other pubs near here
The Holmbush Inn in Faygate.
Your reviews
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Andy Clark says: 
| 28-November-09
The Dragon has closed while Hall and Woodhouse find new tenants to take over the running of the pub. It closed its doors on Tuesday 24th November. A spokesman for the brewery has said that they will re-open the pub as soon as possible. We do hope so as this is one of the few remaining real country pubs that are left.
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