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Contact the pub directly for current assistance." } } ] } ] } ], "editorialMarkdown": "[View next **The Royal Standard**]()\n\n## The Queen’s Head, Newton\n\nA family-owned free house trading since at least 1729, with cask ale served from the stillage and one of England's most complete traditional pub interiors.\n\n[Plan this experience]()\n\n[Explore the story]()\n\nCost **Free to visit**\n\nTime to allow **60–90 minutes**\n\nPace **Easy**\n\nPlace **Newton, south of Cambridge**\n\nBest time **Year round**\n\n01 / The experience\n\n### The Queen’s Head, Newton\n\nFew pubs around Cambridge preserve this much real fabric, custom and continuity: the Queen’s Head is historic because of how it still works, not merely because the building is old.\n\nThe Queen's Head is the strongest historic-pub excursion in the Cambridge area. The Grade II-listed building is early eighteenth century, and the pub has traded since at least 1729. Its quarry-tiled public bar, high-backed settle, jug-and-bottle hatch, separate saloon and direct-from-cask service preserve practices and fittings that have disappeared elsewhere. It is also one of the very small number of pubs represented in every edition of CAMRA's Good Beer Guide. This is a purposefully traditional village pub, not a themed reconstruction.\n\n02 / The essentials\n\n### The Queen’s Head, Newton: visit essentials\n\n1. 01\n\n The Queen's Head has traded as a pub since at least 1729.\n2. 02\n\n The early eighteenth-century building is Grade II listed.\n3. 03\n\n CAMRA gives the interior its highest three-star heritage rating.\n4. 04\n\n The public bar retains quarry tiles, old panelling, a fireplace and a high-backed settle.\n5. 05\n\n A surviving jug-and-bottle hatch records an older form of off-sales service.\n6. 06\n\n It is one of only a handful of pubs to appear in every edition of the Good Beer Guide.\n\n03 / The place\n\n### The building in context.\n\nA story written in stone since **1729**.\n\nBuilt\n\nEarly eighteenth century; pub since at least 1729\n\nStyle\n\nTraditional multi-room village public house\n\nListing\n\nGrade II; CAMRA three-star historic interior\n\n04 / Before you go\n\n### Plan your visit\n\n#### Prices & admission\n\nNo admission charge; drinks and food are individually priced.\n\n#### Opening hours\n\nClosed Monday. Split lunchtime and evening hours Tuesday–Saturday, with Sunday opening currently limited to 12:00–16:00. Check the official website before travelling.\n\n#### Plan your experience\n\nMostly first come, first served. Contact the pub for groups of six or more and special occasions.\n\n[Visit the official site]()\n\n#### Accessibility\n\nCAMRA records a step at the front entrance and no accessible WC. Contact the pub before travelling if step-free access is required.\n\n#### Participation requirements\n\nEasy inside, subject to the entrance step.\n\nUsually unnecessary; call for larger groups.\n\nContinue exploring / Cambridge\n\n### More things to do\n*in Cambridge*\n\nExplore Cambridge activities, sights and places to eat. 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Treat it as a dedicated excursion rather than a central Cambridge pub stop.\n\n02 Why is the interior important?\n\nIt retains a rare combination of old room divisions, bar fittings, a jug-and-bottle hatch, direct-from-cask service and sympathetic later alterations.\n\n03 Does it serve food?\n\nYes. The pub is known for simple food such as soup and sandwiches, with additional evening arrangements on selected days.\n\n04 Is it accessible?\n\nCAMRA records an entrance step and no accessible WC. Contact the pub directly for current assistance.\n\nBefore you visit\n\n### Check hours, tickets and access.\n\nCheck opening hours, admission prices and access with the venue before setting off.\n\nUpdated\n\nDate unavailable\n\nBy\n\n[Above Guide Editorial Team]()\n\nUseful links\n\n- [Official site queensheadnewton.co.uk ↗]()\n- [Supporting source camra.org.uk ↗]()\n- [Supporting source capturingcambridge.org ↗]()\n\n[Report a correction]()\n\nContinue exploring\n\n### Make Cambridge\nyour own.\n\n[Visit the official site]()[← All things to do]()\n\nOpening hours, prices and access change. Confirm details on the official site before visiting.\n\nFiled under historic pub / independent / free house / Grade II listed / historic interior" }