The Turk's Head
Historic pub
One of the area's oldest pubs, next to the Guildhall, in a 700-year-old building with its own brewery on site. It is said to have been a favourite of Charles Dickens.
📍 202 High Street, Exeter EX4 3EB
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The Old Fire House
Real ale pub
Widely seen as one of Exeter's best ale and cider pubs, popular with students and locals, with good food and drink at fair prices.
📍 50 New North Road, Exeter
The Prospect Inn
Historic pub
A 16th-century and reputedly haunted independent pub on the Quay, with local ales, pub classics and tables out on the waterfront.
📍 The Quay, Exeter EX2 4AN
Double Locks
Canalside pub
An 18th-century red-brick inn two miles along the canal from the Quay, with a huge garden by the locks, good food and more than 100 single malts.
📍 Canal Banks, Exeter EX2 6LT
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