Markyate · food

Best Pubs in Markyate

Markyate is a linear A5 village: a short list of local places, and Hemel, Harpenden or Luton when you want a scene.

The Sun Inn and village takeaways do the honest work. Pretending otherwise is how guidebooks annoy people who live here.

Our listings will send you to Hemel or Harpenden where Markyate has no equivalent: and we will say so.

Fire, beer, a kitchen that does not shut at 2pm, and a welcome for dogs or children: not always both, but the listing will say.

Planning

New planning documents lock in the shape of Hemel Garden Communities

Supplementary Planning Documents for the HGC area are now adopted. They will guide neighbourhoods, infrastructure and the long argument about how Hemel grows north.

25 June 2026