Welcome to
Town Owl

Town Owl Taphouse which opened in September 2023 is an independently owned bar in Stroud. We are passionate about great craft beer which we try and source as locally as we can from around Gloucestershire and the South West. Our rotating tap wall provides a variety of styles of beer, including a cider, with the occasional guest beer from further afield. We also try to select local wines and spirits where possible including our very local Woodchester Valley Wines and Thornbury 6 O'Clock Gin. 

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We aim to provide a relaxing social space and encourage conversation and a sense of community. 

You are welcome to bring in food to eat from our local popular farmers market or other food vendors including Five Valleys and can even order through Uber Eats if you so wish.

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Our first floor room is available for private functions, classes or events and can also include the roof terrace. Please feel free to get in touch to discuss details further?

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Town Owl

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On eves of cold, when slow coal fires,
rooted in basements, burn and branch,
brushing with smoke the city air;
When quartered moons pale in the sky,
and neons glow along the dark
like deadly nightshade on a briar;
Above the muffled traffic then
I hear the owl, and at his note
I shudder in my private chair.
For like an auger he has come
to roost among our crumbling walls,
his blooded talons sheathed in fur.
Some secret lure of time it seems
has called him from his country wastes
to hunt a newer wasteland here.
And where the candlabra swung
bright with the dancers’ thousand eyes,
now his black, hooded pupils stare,
And where the silk-shoed lovers ran
with dust of diamonds in their hair,
he opens now his silent wing,
And, like a stroke of doom, drops down,
and swoops across the empty hall,
and plucks a quick mouse off the stair...

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Laurie Lee