The Fox and Goose
@foxandgoose.org
West Yorkshire's first community-owned pub. We celebrate local brewers. 7 Heptonstall Road, Hebden Bridge. HX7 6AZ. [email protected]
This Saturday, a little light old time mountain music from Square Peg, should it tickle you.
#HebdenBridge
#HebdenBridge
December 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This Saturday, a little light old time mountain music from Square Peg, should it tickle you.
#HebdenBridge
#HebdenBridge
Ah well, now this is a nice thing. Reflections on favourite drinking spots, self, life and change.
Thinking on, should it be the objective of a pub to create such spaces, and to hold them as we and the world change around them?
No pressure then.
Thinking on, should it be the objective of a pub to create such spaces, and to hold them as we and the world change around them?
No pressure then.
Reposting this personal essay on ritual and loss for the late night crowd and friends in different time zones.
Sign up for more if you like this.
www.anthonygladman.com/drink-it-in/
Sign up for more if you like this.
www.anthonygladman.com/drink-it-in/
Drink it in
Beer is full of quiet, private rituals and the places we return to. You never know, in the normal run of things, that you’re having your last drink in one of your special places, so it pays to savour ...
www.anthonygladman.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Ah well, now this is a nice thing. Reflections on favourite drinking spots, self, life and change.
Thinking on, should it be the objective of a pub to create such spaces, and to hold them as we and the world change around them?
No pressure then.
Thinking on, should it be the objective of a pub to create such spaces, and to hold them as we and the world change around them?
No pressure then.
Here at the Fox and Goose, we believe in the power of community to create thriving places.
This #CommunityBusinessWeek, let's celebrate all the businesses that make our towns, cities and communities vibrant, resilient and inclusive.
This #CommunityBusinessWeek, let's celebrate all the businesses that make our towns, cities and communities vibrant, resilient and inclusive.
December 2, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Here at the Fox and Goose, we believe in the power of community to create thriving places.
This #CommunityBusinessWeek, let's celebrate all the businesses that make our towns, cities and communities vibrant, resilient and inclusive.
This #CommunityBusinessWeek, let's celebrate all the businesses that make our towns, cities and communities vibrant, resilient and inclusive.
It's Community Business Week. Pubs are vital to communities and social cohesion, places where we can come together across divides in a warm and welcoming space.
We're proud to be a community-owned pub. If you haven't discovered us yet, do drop by. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
We're proud to be a community-owned pub. If you haven't discovered us yet, do drop by. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Can you have a community without craic? Scholars of Ireland’s pubs warn of declining numbers
Two new books analyse what makes the ‘perfect pub’ and both come to a sobering conclusion: Irish pubs are in trouble
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It's Community Business Week. Pubs are vital to communities and social cohesion, places where we can come together across divides in a warm and welcoming space.
We're proud to be a community-owned pub. If you haven't discovered us yet, do drop by. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
We're proud to be a community-owned pub. If you haven't discovered us yet, do drop by. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
It's #HebdenBridge Open Studios next weekend, here's a little taster of what's on offer.
Experience suggests that trawling studios for excellent art is thirsty work, while a pint can help facilitate reflection on your haul.
Experience suggests that trawling studios for excellent art is thirsty work, while a pint can help facilitate reflection on your haul.
Works in progress: inside Hebden Bridge Open Studios
In and around Hebden Bridge, artists will open their workshops this December: from printing to silverwork and more – meet some of the makers
By Philip O'Brien
In and around Hebden Bridge, artists will open their workshops this December: from printing to silverwork and more – meet some of the makers
By Philip O'Brien
Works in progress: inside Hebden Bridge Open Studios
In and around Hebden Bridge, artists will open their workshops this December: from printing to silverwork and more – meet some of the makers
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 AM
It's #HebdenBridge Open Studios next weekend, here's a little taster of what's on offer.
Experience suggests that trawling studios for excellent art is thirsty work, while a pint can help facilitate reflection on your haul.
Experience suggests that trawling studios for excellent art is thirsty work, while a pint can help facilitate reflection on your haul.
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HEBDEN BRIDGE CONFERENCE CALLS FOR MORE COUNTRYSIDE ACCESS: The anniversary this weekend of the 2000 Countryside & Rights of Way Act was marked with a national conference in Hebden Bridge which called for further government legislation on access to countryside. See HebWeb at www.hebdenbridge.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
HEBDEN BRIDGE CONFERENCE CALLS FOR MORE COUNTRYSIDE ACCESS: The anniversary this weekend of the 2000 Countryside & Rights of Way Act was marked with a national conference in Hebden Bridge which called for further government legislation on access to countryside. See HebWeb at www.hebdenbridge.co.uk
This weekend's Pick of the Pumps.
Be quick if you want the Centennial Simcoe or Lupulin Pastilles, they're both delicious and flying out.
And there's a reason Blimey, Chinook and Jamestown are all old favourites, they're all excellent and won't be on long either. 1/2
Be quick if you want the Centennial Simcoe or Lupulin Pastilles, they're both delicious and flying out.
And there's a reason Blimey, Chinook and Jamestown are all old favourites, they're all excellent and won't be on long either. 1/2
November 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This weekend's Pick of the Pumps.
Be quick if you want the Centennial Simcoe or Lupulin Pastilles, they're both delicious and flying out.
And there's a reason Blimey, Chinook and Jamestown are all old favourites, they're all excellent and won't be on long either. 1/2
Be quick if you want the Centennial Simcoe or Lupulin Pastilles, they're both delicious and flying out.
And there's a reason Blimey, Chinook and Jamestown are all old favourites, they're all excellent and won't be on long either. 1/2
Keep going along the towpath, cross the canal bridge by the Little Theatre, continue on the opposite towpath, taking a right at the next bridge, then take a left up the hill after the Co-op and we're on the right at the traffic lights.
You're welcome. 🍻
#HebdenBridge
You're welcome. 🍻
#HebdenBridge
Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, painting by Lucy Pittaway. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
November 28, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Keep going along the towpath, cross the canal bridge by the Little Theatre, continue on the opposite towpath, taking a right at the next bridge, then take a left up the hill after the Co-op and we're on the right at the traffic lights.
You're welcome. 🍻
#HebdenBridge
You're welcome. 🍻
#HebdenBridge
*glances out of the window at the gloom
We do keep banging on about the contents of our dark pump but by crikey, this Black Porter from @wishbonebrewery.bsky.social is looking pretty damn appealing as we slide towards the weekend.
We do keep banging on about the contents of our dark pump but by crikey, this Black Porter from @wishbonebrewery.bsky.social is looking pretty damn appealing as we slide towards the weekend.
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
*glances out of the window at the gloom
We do keep banging on about the contents of our dark pump but by crikey, this Black Porter from @wishbonebrewery.bsky.social is looking pretty damn appealing as we slide towards the weekend.
We do keep banging on about the contents of our dark pump but by crikey, this Black Porter from @wishbonebrewery.bsky.social is looking pretty damn appealing as we slide towards the weekend.
Thinking of saving your pub? We did.
@camraofficial.bsky.social now has the second of three short films online with communities who have already done so learn.camra.org.uk/courses/the-...
So far its Community Owned Pubs series features London's Antwerp Arms and Yorkshire's Travellers Rest.
@camraofficial.bsky.social now has the second of three short films online with communities who have already done so learn.camra.org.uk/courses/the-...
So far its Community Owned Pubs series features London's Antwerp Arms and Yorkshire's Travellers Rest.
Community Owned Pubs: The Antwerp Arms
learn.camra.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Thinking of saving your pub? We did.
@camraofficial.bsky.social now has the second of three short films online with communities who have already done so learn.camra.org.uk/courses/the-...
So far its Community Owned Pubs series features London's Antwerp Arms and Yorkshire's Travellers Rest.
@camraofficial.bsky.social now has the second of three short films online with communities who have already done so learn.camra.org.uk/courses/the-...
So far its Community Owned Pubs series features London's Antwerp Arms and Yorkshire's Travellers Rest.
Want to stay up to date with what's happening at the Fox?
Our lovely members and staff produce a quarterly newsletter. Just contact [email protected] to subscribe by email.
Huge thanks to Katch Skinner for the Autumn newsletter sketch.
Our lovely members and staff produce a quarterly newsletter. Just contact [email protected] to subscribe by email.
Huge thanks to Katch Skinner for the Autumn newsletter sketch.
November 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Want to stay up to date with what's happening at the Fox?
Our lovely members and staff produce a quarterly newsletter. Just contact [email protected] to subscribe by email.
Huge thanks to Katch Skinner for the Autumn newsletter sketch.
Our lovely members and staff produce a quarterly newsletter. Just contact [email protected] to subscribe by email.
Huge thanks to Katch Skinner for the Autumn newsletter sketch.
We've just invested in the brilliant Calder Valley Community Land Trust's @cvclt1.bsky.social's Northfield Project as part of our cooperative's commitment to supporting our wider community.
You can see a video about the project here: youtu.be/4h87lTXFDMA #HebdenBridge #Heptonstall
You can see a video about the project here: youtu.be/4h87lTXFDMA #HebdenBridge #Heptonstall
Let's create an affordable rented home in Northfield, Heptonstall
YouTube video by Calder Valley Community Land Trust
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
We've just invested in the brilliant Calder Valley Community Land Trust's @cvclt1.bsky.social's Northfield Project as part of our cooperative's commitment to supporting our wider community.
You can see a video about the project here: youtu.be/4h87lTXFDMA #HebdenBridge #Heptonstall
You can see a video about the project here: youtu.be/4h87lTXFDMA #HebdenBridge #Heptonstall
2015 must have been a vintage year for new breweries.
This week, #Rochdale's Serious Brewing Company celebrates its 10th anniversary.
We're celebrating it too, with a range of their finest ales on this weekend, including their award winning Goldrush and Moonlight.
Happy birthday!
This week, #Rochdale's Serious Brewing Company celebrates its 10th anniversary.
We're celebrating it too, with a range of their finest ales on this weekend, including their award winning Goldrush and Moonlight.
Happy birthday!
November 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
2015 must have been a vintage year for new breweries.
This week, #Rochdale's Serious Brewing Company celebrates its 10th anniversary.
We're celebrating it too, with a range of their finest ales on this weekend, including their award winning Goldrush and Moonlight.
Happy birthday!
This week, #Rochdale's Serious Brewing Company celebrates its 10th anniversary.
We're celebrating it too, with a range of their finest ales on this weekend, including their award winning Goldrush and Moonlight.
Happy birthday!
If you've ever wondered about green hop beers and why they're so special, this piece on the 2025 green hop harvest is a great introduction. Thanks to @boakandbailey.bsky.social for signposting.
www.seanislegend.com/green-hop-beer
www.seanislegend.com/green-hop-beer
From Bine to Glass: Brewing with Green Hops | beer photography by Sean McEmerson
A behind-the-scenes look at the 2025 hop harvest, following fresh green hops from Hukins Hops in Kent to breweries like Five Points and Beak as they brew with them only hours after picking.
www.seanislegend.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
If you've ever wondered about green hop beers and why they're so special, this piece on the 2025 green hop harvest is a great introduction. Thanks to @boakandbailey.bsky.social for signposting.
www.seanislegend.com/green-hop-beer
www.seanislegend.com/green-hop-beer
Gale beer, #Yorkshire bog myrtle beer. No, we hadn't either.
"Gale beer provides an example of how radically changing lifestyles and environmental conditions can alter our food and drink in only a few decades of historical change." www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...
"Gale beer provides an example of how radically changing lifestyles and environmental conditions can alter our food and drink in only a few decades of historical change." www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...
The Going Through — Gale Beer, Saison’s Lost Yorkshire Cousin — Pellicle
It pours from an unmarked swing-necked brown bottle, a clear liquid with a light effervescence which disappears quickly in the glass. It smells like gingerbread, but tastes either sweet when young or ...
www.pelliclemag.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Gale beer, #Yorkshire bog myrtle beer. No, we hadn't either.
"Gale beer provides an example of how radically changing lifestyles and environmental conditions can alter our food and drink in only a few decades of historical change." www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...
"Gale beer provides an example of how radically changing lifestyles and environmental conditions can alter our food and drink in only a few decades of historical change." www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/9/...
Last weekend, one of the directors had promising results from initial trials investigating the concept of the 'homeopathic hair of the dog'.
It's another exciting low/no application, in addition to them being very nice to drink when you really don't need any alcohol. Currently on. 👇
It's another exciting low/no application, in addition to them being very nice to drink when you really don't need any alcohol. Currently on. 👇
November 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Last weekend, one of the directors had promising results from initial trials investigating the concept of the 'homeopathic hair of the dog'.
It's another exciting low/no application, in addition to them being very nice to drink when you really don't need any alcohol. Currently on. 👇
It's another exciting low/no application, in addition to them being very nice to drink when you really don't need any alcohol. Currently on. 👇
Excited for the day when we can make Fox and Goose t-shirts from the proteins in brewers yeast. cen.acs.org/materials/Br...
Brewing waste: The solution to sustainable fashion?
Biodegradable fibers spun from yeast protein avoid the resource use and pollution of cotton, wool, and polyester
cen.acs.org
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Excited for the day when we can make Fox and Goose t-shirts from the proteins in brewers yeast. cen.acs.org/materials/Br...
We leave no stone unturned in our quest for tasty brews for you. In this example travelling for 58 whole minutes to Hetton in the Yorkshire Dales.
The object of our quest, the Dark Horse Brewery, our prize, their Hetton Pale and Nightjar brews.
The object of our quest, the Dark Horse Brewery, our prize, their Hetton Pale and Nightjar brews.
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 PM
We leave no stone unturned in our quest for tasty brews for you. In this example travelling for 58 whole minutes to Hetton in the Yorkshire Dales.
The object of our quest, the Dark Horse Brewery, our prize, their Hetton Pale and Nightjar brews.
The object of our quest, the Dark Horse Brewery, our prize, their Hetton Pale and Nightjar brews.
No queuing at the bar, don't order cocktails, no table reservations and always buy your round.
@pelliclemag.com's Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette will shortly be carved upon stone tablets and placed above the entrance to the toilets.
@pelliclemag.com's Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette will shortly be carved upon stone tablets and placed above the entrance to the toilets.
The Pellicle Essential Guide to Pub Ettiquette!
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
Already noted as curmudgeonly by @boakandbailey.bsky.social, we prefer "righteously bothered."
Table rezzies, bogey-filled tissues in empty glasses, rounds and more, all documented for posterity.
www.pelliclemag.com/home/2025/10...
The Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette — Pellicle
It was the writer and politician Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) who famously said, “ Change your hearts or you will lose your inns and you will deserve to have lost them. But when you have lost your inns ...
www.pelliclemag.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:33 AM
No queuing at the bar, don't order cocktails, no table reservations and always buy your round.
@pelliclemag.com's Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette will shortly be carved upon stone tablets and placed above the entrance to the toilets.
@pelliclemag.com's Essential Guide to Pub Etiquette will shortly be carved upon stone tablets and placed above the entrance to the toilets.
Like trees, fresh air and a nice view? Got some spare time on Fridays? You could do worse than...
If you're free on Fridays, we would be delighted if you could volunteer at our Daisy Bank Community Tree Nursery in Mytholmroyd 🌱
We're growing local provenance trees for hedgerow and woodland planting projects as well as local Natural Flood Management schemes.
www.eventbrite.com/e/daisy-bank...
We're growing local provenance trees for hedgerow and woodland planting projects as well as local Natural Flood Management schemes.
www.eventbrite.com/e/daisy-bank...
Daisy Bank Community Tree Nursery Volunteer Day
Join us for our weekly Friday community tree nursery volunteer day, sharing skills & time outside growing trees at Daisy Bank in Mytholmroyd
www.eventbrite.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Like trees, fresh air and a nice view? Got some spare time on Fridays? You could do worse than...
In case you're wondering, our town #HebdenBridge isn't in a national park. Something mulled on by @jpspencer.bsky.social in this post.
Not the first time a designation has been proposed for the South Pennines; an area named after an @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social map. 🙃
Not the first time a designation has been proposed for the South Pennines; an area named after an @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social map. 🙃
Only one upland area of England remains an unprotected landscape. So why is the South Pennines area between Leeds and Manchester a tricky area to deal with?
Read more about the unique history of the place and what it means for the future in the post below.
open.substack.com/pub/futureno...
Read more about the unique history of the place and what it means for the future in the post below.
open.substack.com/pub/futureno...
A new national park for the Pennines?
Only one upland area of England is not a protected landscape
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In case you're wondering, our town #HebdenBridge isn't in a national park. Something mulled on by @jpspencer.bsky.social in this post.
Not the first time a designation has been proposed for the South Pennines; an area named after an @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social map. 🙃
Not the first time a designation has been proposed for the South Pennines; an area named after an @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social map. 🙃
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Freedom to roam? What's next? @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social looks back - and ahead - here gritstonecoop.co.uk/gritblog/cam... Come and join us to hear more, Hebden Bridge Nov 29 @ramblers.org.uk @amyjanebeer.bsky.social
October 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Freedom to roam? What's next? @andrewbibby-writer.bsky.social looks back - and ahead - here gritstonecoop.co.uk/gritblog/cam... Come and join us to hear more, Hebden Bridge Nov 29 @ramblers.org.uk @amyjanebeer.bsky.social
Treat yourselves to some harrowing antics at the Fox this #Halloween weekend, or simply accept it as an elaborate justification to drink nice beer in a costume.
We have goings on going on this Friday and Sunday, should you dare to join us.
#HebdenBridge
We have goings on going on this Friday and Sunday, should you dare to join us.
#HebdenBridge
October 28, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Treat yourselves to some harrowing antics at the Fox this #Halloween weekend, or simply accept it as an elaborate justification to drink nice beer in a costume.
We have goings on going on this Friday and Sunday, should you dare to join us.
#HebdenBridge
We have goings on going on this Friday and Sunday, should you dare to join us.
#HebdenBridge
We used to love an apple day at the Fox not sure we've got one this year, which is a shame given that it's been a bumper year for them.
If you've ever wondered about the flavour of yours, this is a nice guide to why they taste like they do. 🍎🍏
If you've ever wondered about the flavour of yours, this is a nice guide to why they taste like they do. 🍎🍏
Why are some apples as sweet as honey while others make your face pucker? 🍎
Dive into the chemistry behind apple sweetness, tartness, and aroma in this graphic!
👉 Read more: www.compoundchem.com/2025/10/16/a...
#ChemSky 🧪
Dive into the chemistry behind apple sweetness, tartness, and aroma in this graphic!
👉 Read more: www.compoundchem.com/2025/10/16/a...
#ChemSky 🧪
October 17, 2025 at 5:17 AM
We used to love an apple day at the Fox not sure we've got one this year, which is a shame given that it's been a bumper year for them.
If you've ever wondered about the flavour of yours, this is a nice guide to why they taste like they do. 🍎🍏
If you've ever wondered about the flavour of yours, this is a nice guide to why they taste like they do. 🍎🍏
Another day dawns in Hebbywood, West Yorkshire's hottest location for the production of moving pictures.
If you're feeling the chill after gawping at drones and celebs all day, come and get your chops around this warming Parkin Stout from @abbeydalebeers.bsky.social
If you're feeling the chill after gawping at drones and celebs all day, come and get your chops around this warming Parkin Stout from @abbeydalebeers.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Another day dawns in Hebbywood, West Yorkshire's hottest location for the production of moving pictures.
If you're feeling the chill after gawping at drones and celebs all day, come and get your chops around this warming Parkin Stout from @abbeydalebeers.bsky.social
If you're feeling the chill after gawping at drones and celebs all day, come and get your chops around this warming Parkin Stout from @abbeydalebeers.bsky.social