We're having some TLC...
Hello,
We’re excited to be having a little refurbishment to the pub over the coming weeks. We’ll still be the pub you all know and love, just with a few improvements and a lick of paint to freshen us up here and there.
We’ll still be open the week of 26th October, but you may see some works starting on the outside of the building and to a section of the pub that won’t interrupt service so please pop along and still see us over half term.
We’ll then be fully closed from Monday 2nd November. All being well, reopening on Wednesday 18th November from 12pm, ready to host you for the festive season.
We know you’ll have 2026 expiry meal tickets to use up during this time but you are still able to use them in any of our other sister pubs during our closure, and we’ll be happy to still accept them in the new year if you haven’t managed to use them in time.
Welcome to the website for the Morris Dancer
The Morris Dancer can claim to be Kelsall's oldest surviving public house. For most of its history it has been known as The Globe and can be dated back to Cheshire records of the 1630s. Of the many historic landlords the most colourful and still well remembered was Brian "Rusty" Williams, the licensee from 1977-89, who renamed it The Morris Dancer in 1980. "Rusty" brought the annual Cheshire Folk Festival to Kelsall, reverting back to the classic traditions that once surrounded Inns, a tradition that is still upheld today.
You will find a large bar at the heart of the pub, stocked with local ales and a myriad of delights to take your fancy. There is a large, bright, high ceiling roomed to the rear, leading out onto our terrace and a small, cosy beamed bar room to the other side of the pub, so you can choose to sit wherever your mood takes you.
We have a Private Dining room that will happily seat sixteen in comfort, perfect for business meetings or for those cosy occasions when you want to be all together as a family or with friends.
We hope to welcome to you soon,
Stephanie and the Morris Dancer team.
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Menus
Our passion lies in finding quality fresh ingredients and preparing, cooking and presenting them in a modern but unpretentious way. Our menus have a spine of classic British dishes complemented by more exotic influences from other parts of the world. We upload them to our web site each day so that you may peruse them at your leisure.
- The Sustainable Restaurant Association's Food Made Good Standard
- Coeliac UK AccreditedWe are proud to have the processes in place to meet this standard and serve gluten free food safely.
- AA and VisitEngland - Visitor ReadyThis badge displays a commitment to operating safely so consumers can visit with confidence.
- Good Pub Guide (No longer published)2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
AllTrails have kindly created a circular walk from the pub to help you work up that thirst/appetite. You can view the walk details via any of the routes below. (varying levels of tech savviness required -Ed)
The Morris Dancer Kelsall Trail an AllTrails walk
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