A small place but a lively one. The Laughing Fish is famous for folk singing throughout the year and every Easter Monday was the scene of the traditional Tommy Trot Beer Race. The competitors had to carry a half-pint of beer a distance of one mile to the village mill and back within a set…

A peaceful farming village, flanked by the Downs and the brooks of the Ouse valley, where the centuries seem to have slipped gently by with nothing to seriously ruffle the pattern of life on the land. But wartime left its mark, literally, on Iford and gave one little girl a day of excitement she has…

There is a potted history of the area in the bar of The Bell which tells you that the pub dates way back to 1107. With its white weatherboarding and hanging tiles, it looks more 18th century than 12th but locals will tell you of the time a party of enthusiastic Americans came here to…

George Gutsell, one-time landlord of The Queen’s Head, must have liked his pub a lot … not even death could keep him away. A popular host at the old inn, when he died at the end of the 19th century his customers gave him a rousing send-off. His coffin was brought into the pub and…