Planning on visiting Huish Park as an away fan? Here’s everything you could need to know about the hallowed turf in Yeovil. Huish Park is situated on the outskirts of town sandwiched between a commercial/industrial estate and ever-growing residential areas. The ground is signposted from most major roads in Yeovil itself.
RECOMMENDED PUBS
Now we’re obviously not encouraging you to drink and drive, but if you have a supportive designated driver we have tried to offer a few options for you depending on which way you are arriving at Huish Park.
However, if you are looking to get landed and then find somewhere, your options are limited (/non-existent) at the ground itself. The Fan Zone at Huish Park is (sadly) home fans only and therefore you will be looking to foray in to local housing estates to whet your whistle – referees recommended not to drink pre-match, though in the National League it may be recommended.
The Arrow: If you’ve visited Huish Park before, there is every chance you have found The Arrow in Abbey Manor Park, the housing estate next to the main stadium site, it’s probably a 10-15 minute walk. It is a Marston’s pub and popular with home supporters and therefore likely to be busy on a matchday with plenty of screens for live sport and a beer garden. Marston’s Pedigree is the regular ale with six changing ales also on offer, plus the selection of ciders and other beers you would expect at a football club. There is food as well.
Address: The Forum, Yeovil, Somerset, BA21 3TL Tel: 01935 476972. Website: Click Here Map: Click Here
The other option involves a bit more of a walk from the stadium, probably 30 minutes at a casual pace, The Bell on Preston Road which appears in a number of away fan guides, suggesting it is away fan-friendly.
The Bell: A Greene King Hungry Horse pub with everything (the bells and whistles, you could say!) you would expect from such a chain, a spacious pub with outdoor and indoor areas and likely to be popular with home supporters as well. As a Greene King pub, you will not be surprised to hear Abbot Ale and IPA are the regular ales on offer, they also stock one rotating guest cask ale, plus Old Rosie cider on draught. Guest beers have included the likes of Doom Bar, Butcombe Bitter, Hobgoblin, and Deuchars IPA. The food offering is the good value stuff you can expect from a Hungry Horse – you might even see a former Yeovil chairman rolling around on the carpet.
Address: 207 Preston Road, Yeovil, BA20 2EW. Tel: 01935 474077 Website: Click Here Map: Click Here
BY ROAD
From the North, the West, the East
Get yourselves on the A303, it’s the only sensible way to approach Yeovil, whether your coming from The North, the South-East, Wales or the South-West. The A303 doesn’t actually enter Yeovil, it passes some miles north of the town. You have several choices where to get off the road, but the police have asked us to promote one exit in particular, the A3088 route, known locally as the Cartgate Link Road.
From the West
Exit at the A3088 (signposted to Yeovil, Dorchester and Weymouth) Cartgate roundabout. Follow the road approximately 8-9 miles until you reach a roundabout on the outskirts of Yeovil with the Westlands Airfield directly in front of you. Take the first exit left here, pass straight on over another roundabout and the crematorium on your left and an Asda supermarket on your right before you reach yet another roundabout. Take the first exit left here and follow the road around until you reach the football club on your right.
Recommended pubs en-route
The truth is you will not actually pass any pubs on your way Huish Park if you are taking the A3088 route suggested. The Airfield Tavern was the only one until 2024 when it shut, so you would need to build in a detour – if you’re up for it, there are a couple of options.
Alternative Option – Country vibes
Turn right at the sign to Montacute and Stoke-Sub-Hamdon, go up a slight hill to a T-Junction. Go right towards Stoke-Sub-Hamdon, or left towards Montacute. If you take the Stoke route you’ll travel around 2-3 miles before you get to the village. Drive along the narrow main street and you will see the Fleur de Lis.
Fleur de Lis: The Fleur is the sort of pub that seems plucked from a postcard — all honey-coloured walls made of local hamstone, beams with character, and steeped in history the building dates back to the 15th century. They have Black Sheep and Detonator on tap and they usually offers 2 changing ales plus a house beer, often supplemented by guest brews from regional breweries. This means the selection can vary weekly or seasonally. The food options is solid pub fare — nothing overly fussy, think beer-battered fish and chips, hearty pies, Sunday roasts, and seasonal specials. Vegetarian and gluten-free options are available, though the range isn’t enormous. Opening times: Midday-10pm – both Saturdays and midweek.
Address: West St, Stoke-Sub-Hamdon, TA14 6PU. Tel: 01935 593274 Website: Click Here Map: Click Here
If your clutch control is up to it, the other option in Stoke-sub-Hamdon is the Prince of Wales located at local beauty spot, Ham Hill Country Park. When you enter the village, continue for about half-a-mile until you see a turning on your left (North Street), continue up the steep hill and turn in to the country park on your left – it’s quite a drop on the right, so make sure you get that correct!
Prince of Wales: A traditional country pub perched within Ham Hill Country Park, this pub offers breathtaking views across the Somerset Levels—a perfect reward for mastering the art of clutch control to get up there. Typically pours three regional ales from gravity stillage, with rotating guest options and usually at least two ales on tap from breweries such as Durdle Dor and Somerset Ale. The food menu includes hearty classics like roast beef, gammon, pies, and favourites like chicken & leek pie. If you are an admirer of a nice view, decent ale and some good food, it’s worth the detour off the A3088.
Address: The Prince of Wales, Ham Hill, Stoke Sub Hamdon, TA14 6RW. Tel: 01935 822848 Website: Click Here Map: Click Here
Those are the Stoke-sub-Hamdon options, but if you choose to turn left – brown signposted Montacute House – you will quickly end up in Montacute, surprisingly! It’s another tight squeeze (you’re in the countryside now!) of a main road, but just before the road bends to the left with the parish church in front of you, you will see the Kings’ Arms on your right.
Kings Arms: A 17th-century hamstone building (they love a bit of hamstone), the The Kings Arms has classic English country pub exterior and its interior offers accommodation, drink and food. The CAMRA review suggests it typically serves Timothy Taylor’s Landlord plus two rotating guest ales from regional breweries, offering seasonal variety and local flavours. The restaurant feels a bit restaurant-y rather than a classic pub setting, but if you’re okay with that give it a whirl.
Address: The Kings Arms Inn, Bishopton, Montacute, TA15 6UU. Tel: 01935 822255 Website: Click Here Map: Click Here
If you follow the road round past the Kings Arms, you will quickly see the Phelips Arms on your left-hand side.
Phelips Arms: Just a stone’s throw from the gates of Montacute House, an impressive National Trust estate, the Phelips Arms is an 18th Century inn (hamstone, you guessed it) with a beer garden, cosy interior and skittle alley – nothing to do with chewy, fruit sweets. Typically serving two or three Palmers cask ales, along with Palmers First Press real cider, all hand-pumped. The food menu is good pub food from burger and fish and chips to steak and pizza. If The Borough where the Phelips is located looks familiar, it was the setting for scenes from Sense & Sensibility filmed there in the 1990s, and nearby Montacute House featured in The Libertine (2004) starring Jonny Depp and an episode of BBC drama Wolf Hall as recently as 2024. It also has flat access for wheelchairs but the Kings is accessible only via steps.
Address: The Phelips Arms, The Borough, Montacute TA15 6XB.Tel: 01935 822557. Website: Click Here Map: Click Here
From The East
Exit the A303 at the A37 turnoff (signposted to Ilchester). You’ll come to a roundabout, take the second exit following the signs to Yeovil. Follow the road for 4-5 miles until you reach another roundabout and turn right (the 3rd exit). This takes you to a staggered double mini-roundabout(s). Take the second exit here (straight on in effect) and follow the road with houses on your left and fields on your right to another mini-roundabout. Straight on here and past a turning on your left which leads into a residential area. Keep going sraight on until you get to the next left exit which you will turn into with a song on your lips and joy in your heart because you are almost there. Drive up the hill and take the first turning right. The stadium is now visible on your left.
Recommended pubs en route
There’s several pubs in the village of Ilchester itself. The Ilchester Arms serves lovely food and has a good choice behind the bar. Halfway between Ilchester and Yeovil on your left as you travel towards Yeovil there is the imaginatively-named Halfway House public house – a top-notch boozer, do good food and have a pool table as well as a cracking juke-box. Couple of steps to get in which makes it awkward for wheelchair-users, but it’s worth the effort. They did free sausage and chips for the coachload of Cardiff fans that stopped there a few season’s ago, so ask – you never know your luck!
The Ilchester Arms, Church St, Ilchester, Yeovil BA22 8LN
Tel: 01935 840220
Halfway House Inn; Ilchester Rd, Chilthorne Domer, Yeovil, Somerset BA22 8RE
Tel: 01935 840350
From the South
Enter Yeovil on the A37. Keep on this road until you reach a roundabout with a pub (the Quicksilver Mail) directly in front of you. Turn left here and travel along West Coker Road, until you reach a roundabout and turn right (the second exit). Go down a hill to another roundabout and take a left (first exit). Travel along this road pausing only to wave at the folks working in the South Somerset Council offices to your right (the lego-like building) until you reach a roundabout. Straight across here and onwards to another roundabout which you also drive through (quietly, as the crematorium is now on your left). You reach yet another roundabout. Take the first exit left here and follow the road around past inummerable car dealerships until you reach Huish Park on your right.
Recommended pubs en route
The Red House on the outskirts of Yeovil has changed hands and gone more upmarket, focusing on food. It is wheelchair-friendly. The aforementioned Quicksilver Mail has been making real efforts in the last few years and now appears in good pub guides, particularly real ale ones. It is also one of the fewer and fewer outlets in the town that does proper farmhouse style cider. Food lunchtimes and evenings, and well behaved children and dogs are welcome. Not quite as wheelchair-friendly as the Red House. The Yeovil Court on West Coker Road is altogether more upmarket – recommended only for club directors, vice presidents and similar riff-raff. More of a restaurant than a pub really, but is very wheelchair-friendly should that be a concern.
Red House; Dorchester Rd, Yeovil, Somerset, BA22 9RA
Tel: 01935 477744
Quicksilver Mail; 168, Hendford Hill, Yeovil, Somerset, BA20 2RG
Tel: 01935 424721
Yeovil Court Hotel; West Coker Rd, Yeovil, Somerset, BA20 2HE
Tel: 01935 863746
In terms of ‘safe’ pubs for away fans in Yeovil, they’re pretty much all away fan friendly. There’s the odd estate pub in the residential areas around town that might be a bit parochial, but certainly the ones in the town centre and around the ground itself shouldn’t give you too many problems. Yeovil Town fans are on the whole welcoming and chatty, and the annual Home Office figures regarding football-related arrests consistently have the Glovers as one of the best behaved in the land.
BY RAIL
Yeovil has two stations, Yeovil Junction (situated 2-3 miles outside of the town, naturally) and Pen Mill Junction (about a mile outside the town centre). Both are on the opposite side of town to the football club. From Yeovil Junction there is usually a ‘Hopper’ Bus that leaves a couple of minutes after every train arrives that will take you to Yeovil Bus Station in the Town Centre, cost around £1.50. This still leaves you a couple of miles from the Football Ground, but gives you the possibility of doing some shopping or catching a cab or a bus from the town centre. The other alternative is to take a taxi directly from the station(s) to the club. See the National Rail Site for times of trains.
BY BUS
There was a dedicated Saturday shuttle bus between the bus station and the ground, but it was scrapped. The regular No.1 (Abbey Manor) bus leaves from the stop outside the Lloyds TSB Bank in the town centre every 15 minutes to travel to the Abbey Manor housing estate adjacent to the ground. You can also pick the bus up in Old Station Road if you’re down by Cineworld or the Bowlplex.
Last bus back into town on a Saturday or a weekday evening leaves from Abbey Manor at 18.48 (The Forum) or 18.52pm (Westminster). Note this means that you’re OK for getting to the ground for a midweek match, but after the game, you’ve got to make your own way back. You’ll either need to like walking or you’ll need a taxi to get you home.
Buses should be signed Abbey Manor Park for going up to the Football Ground, and Cavalier Way for those that are going from the ground back down into the town centre.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Huish Park has ample car-parking facilities for all but sell-out games. The charge is £3.00. However getting out can be a bit of a nightmare for higher attendance games; as much to do with the hopeless traffic system around the town as the inefficient stewarding of the club car park, though that isn’t blameless. Away fans are accommodated on the 1,500 capacity uncovered away terrace (clearly signposted at the stadium). A small number (500 seats) are usually made available for away supporters in the Screwfix (East) Stand. For smaller away followings you may find that everyone gets put into the Screwfix Stand and the terrace gets shut entirely.
Disabled and infirm away supporters should contact the Huish Park Ticket Office in cases where seating has not been specifically allocated through the visiting club, to see if special dispensation is possible. Segregation is in force for all matches.
Ticket prices
Note that tickets bought during the period leading up to kick-off carry a £2.00 surcharge for everything bar the Junior rate. The cut-off between pre-match and matchday rates is usually around three hours before kick-off. Tickets must be bought from the ticket office prior to admission to the ground itself – no sales on the turnstiles.
See our Access Guide for accommodation for disabled fans.
A fairly limited selection of hot food is available at the snack bars, and it has come in for some heavy criticism at times from home fans, both in terms of the quality of the food and its tendency to sell out of hot food long before the half time break. It has also recently got much more expensive. It’s not brilliant, and if you queue up around half time, brace yourself for missing five minutes of one of the halves due to the queues.
The only alcohol on sale at the ground to the ‘ordinary’ supporter is a fenced off Marquee Bar (known officially as the Hospitality Marquee, but more locally as The Beer Tent), situated on the corner of the Main Stand and the Thatchers Gold Stand Stand (home terrace). For the large majority of matches, both home and away supporters are welcome, but for local derbies and high attendance fixtures they sometimes make it ‘home only’ – expect a message on our news page if this is the case.
Under-18s are allowed in the Beer Tent. The bar, like much of Huish Park, operates a no-smoking policy so you have to go outside to smoke – but then security will have a pop, saying you can’t take your drink with you, even though you are still inside the fence. The selection of drinks available is very limited, and if it gets remotely busy the speed of service dire. After waiting twenty minutes, which I did once, one tends to give up. There are bars open in the upstairs areas of the Main Stand, but these require special membership, and have a strict dress code.
All in all, when compared to elsewhere in the division, we sadly have to admit the matchday experience of visiting fans to Huish Park is pretty poor, though there are worse.