A popular Cheshire village pub - saved and restored by a farmer eight years ago - is celebrating its seventh consecutive year in the highly prestigious Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) Good Beer Guide. Carden Arms in Tilston, near Malpas , has been named in the 2025 edition. Welcoming the Guide listing, general manager Trish MacKay, said: "It means a lot to have our efforts recognised by the Good Beer Guide for the seventh year.
As a village pub we try very hard to source a variety of quality guest cask ales working with independent breweries in Cheshire, Shropshire and North Wales." Carden Arms was reborn in 2016 by local farmer Didy Morgan. She saved the former 18th century coaching inn from closure and invested in extensive renovations.
Now there is a nostalgic bar, with real fires, two dining areas brimming with antiques and five luxury guest bedrooms. The five hand-pull bar currently features Peerless Triple Blond from Birkenhead and Yorkshire’s Timothy Taylors Landlord along with ‘guests’ from Three Tuns Brewery of Bishops Castle, Big Hand of Wrexham and Chester ’s Spitting Feathers and Weetwood Ales. Mrs Morgan added: "We are delighted to be one of only two pubs a few miles south of Chester to be included in the much-respected Good Beer Guide.
It is a real tribute to the determination of Trish and the team in making the Carden a welcoming village pub with good beer and food. Local pubs have to work very hard to succeed and this listing for our seventh consecutive .
