The Valiant Soldier, Buckfastleigh

The Valiant Soldier is an amazing place. It is a pub that closed in the 1960's creating a time warp within its walls. It had been a village inn for more than two centuries. but when it closed furniture, pub artefacts and domestic items were simply left where they stood as the last customer walked out. All the artefacts and living accommodation date back to the 1940's and 1950's, when nothing was ever thrown away!

Visiting the pub is unique. You will experience a living social history as you tour the building.

The Bar

In 1939 its last landlord, Mark Roberts, became the tenant. In 1965 the brewery decided that there were too many pubs in the town and withdrew the license, so Mr and Mrs Roberts promptly downed tools as the last customers left the premises, leaving everything just as it was – even the change remained in the tills.