I’ve been working in the area for a few weeks and I came a cross this very nice pub and beautiful canal views so I thought it would be nice to take my partner there to get her out of the house for a breath...of fresh air due to I’ll health and her not leaving the house for the last few weeks. I think it was on the Thursday the 10th or 17th of august 2023 we got to the pub just before 3pm and the polite bar man at the time said that we closing at 3pm and reopen later on, I told him if it was ok to get a couple of drinks and would be ok to sit and drink outside, he said no problem and served us a couple of drinks, before we left I didn’t see any signs saying that we wasn’t allowed to drink by canal inside or outside the pub or any other signs by the canal or green as the views by the canal was lovely which had seating there too, so went both went across the road and sat on the seats near to the canal, after about approximately 10 minutes this man came over to us and introduced himself as an EX policeman and said he had been called by the pub to have a word with us about us drinking at the canal as we was the only two there drinking by the canal at that time, he was polite and he said that there was issues with the pub and the church very close by about the public drinking by the canal from the pub, I told him that there was no signs in or at the pub or at the canal green about drinking and I had seen other People from the pub drinking on the green at the canal whilst I was working in the area and if this was a problem why didn’t the manager or member of staff come out and tells us or even warn us so that we was aware and why did they call on you the EX police man, he said that he was called by the the pub to talk with us and he did acknowledge that there was no signs put up or in place, me and my partner found this very very strange which put a dampers on our day, so rather than cause any argument my partner said let us go as she had enough. So we put back the glasses on the outside seating at the pub whilst the Ex policeman watched us leave with his dogs. We both admitted it was a lovey pub and location but our experience tells us not to come back again.More