The Exeter Inn - This is one of the few remaining thatched buildings in Topsham but is however fairly modern inside with one open-plan room, bar, pool table and darts. A locals pub at the Exeter end of town.

Denley's Wine Bar - has incorporated an Indian Restaurant behind the main bar area since 2001, known as Saffron. The food is excellent. I saw a feature on telly not so long ago (July 2004) where the restaurant had delivered a take-away to the Middle East at a cost of 2000 GBP. Denley's is a wine bar and was as such before 2001. The bar area is a little crowded because of the support pillars being in just the wrong place but apart from that the place is excellent with good beers being served. Some seating areas are slightly raised and it is sometimes a little like being in a shop window. Different!

The Lord Nelson Inn - At the Exeter end of Topsham. You'll only get a drink in here these days if you eat. A pasty does not count and you can't get one anyway!

Drake's Wine Bar and Alehouse - has a very good selection of beers and is larger than it looks with an upstairs area featuring sofas and all that trendy shite, wood panel etc..Downstairs is better with snugs and a big open fireplace. This building and those around date from the late C17th, though many houses in Topsham's centre date from the C17th and a few from the C14th. These C14th buildings are to be found mainly where Fore Street winds down to Topsham Quay. Originally The Western Union Hotel.

The Salutation Inn - is an old coaching inn and dates from 1720. Large sash windows, an impressive looking building. Years ago this place used to look a little threadbare but has fairly recently been renovated. The sectioned off public bar can get very crowded. There are the ubiquitous sofas but this time with a baby grand piano making it all look a bit more authentic. Authentically what!? I think the idea is 1920's chic but I aint sure. There is also a dining section and a beer garden with more flowers than a Laura Ashley print.

The Globe Hotel - again looks like it was a coaching house, and as such has a beer garden and car park out the back. There are large fireplaces in several rooms, two bars and a dining area. Quite a good selection of beers with local guest ales. Tends to cater for more mature clintele. C16th but the earliest known documents relating to it are dated 1700.

The Lighter - is located adjacent to Topsham Quay. This was where the bulk of the loading and unloading of ships took place. However some ships were unloaded in mid channel by flat-bottomed boats known as Lighters. The building again looks C17th and is open-plan and very spacious but is in fact a 1971 re-build after a very destructive fire. The beers are very good.

The Steam Packet - is Topsham's second oldest pub (behind the Bridge Inn). Amity Place behind the pub used to be known as Red Lion Court after the pub originally known as The Red Lion. The pub is now named after "The Zephyr", which was a Steam Packet. The side archway giving access to the court again suggests that the building was used as a Coaching Inn. One long thin lounge bar and a slightly more spacious lounge bar.

The Passage House - keeps very good beer. You can sit out front overlooking the river or go inside. Inside is better at low tide, believe me. The building is again late C17th very similar in external design to The Lighter. The clintele, well its the yaucht crowd. The less said the better.

The Bridge Inn - does keep some rather archaic opening times so you might be unlucky. If you are lucky enough to gain access then the building is C16th with different sections of the building completed at different times. It is built mostly of stone but the old brewhouse to the rear is of Devon Cob. There is a malthouse and the remains of a hop-drying floor close to a brewing chimney. Quite a building.