HEYBRIDGE

Pleasant day out close to the Blackwater estuary in Essex, Heybridge lies a couple of miles beyond Maldon. If you're coming in this way, try the Queen's Head, The Hythe, Maldon (no Sat food) with Greene King and guests, in a nice spot overlooking the quayside.
In Heybridge itself, best bet is the MALTSTERS, (Hall Rd, close to jct of Heybridge St, B1022, see street map below), which on last reports was a nice old fashioned 2-bar pub with gravity dispense- recent reports please? This is another Greene King house.
Time permitting, a trip down to Heybridge Basin is recommended (see OS map link below,infrequent bus route 73 Chelmsford-Maldon-HB).Here you can watch the comings and goings on the estuary, where there are two pubs, the JOLLY SAILOR and the OLD SHIP. Real ale available in both at the last visit but recent reports would be welcome.
The out-of-town option par excellence here is the splendid PRINCE OF WALES* at Woodham Rd, Stow Maries, a few miles south of Heybridge and not so far from the railway at South Woodham Ferrers(O.S. grid ref 830993). Great range of ever-changing beers, and excellent food, housed in a super weatherboarded building. You might want to stay here and forget about the game!

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