The Blue Lias Inn stands alongside the Grand Union Canal, which is the main London to Birmingham waterway. It first became an inn when the early canal travellers stopped for evening refreshment and overnight stabling for their horses.

The inn was originally an 18th century farmhouse. It is haunted by the ghost of a red-haired farm labourer who was killed by the enraged farmer who returned from market one day to find his wife in bed with the red haired farmhand.

The Blue Lias Inn is named after the limestone / clay which is quarried locally. The limestone is ground down and mixed with liquid chalk and sand, which form the basic ingredients in the production of cement (see How Cement is Made).

We have a large garden where, in the summer, you can enjoy a pint and a meal next to the canal. The gardens are well kept throuout the year and are stocked with colourful flowers in the summer.

There are many delightful walks in the area and the Blue Lias is the ideal place to enjoy a meal and a drink at the end of your walk. We are right next to Bridge 23 on the Grand Union, which is at the bottom of the Stockton Flight of locks. If you enjoy watching other people work you can take a walk up the towpath and see the canal folk and holiday-makers taking their boats through the locks.

Even in winter there is something to see.