History

To clear up the possible disorientation for guests who haven't visited the Blue Ball for sometime the current Inn's location isn't the original Inn's location. Until 2001 it occupied what is now the site of three en suite letting rooms and ale was pumped from a cellar in the old coaching stables across the road! On Decmber 4th of that year Patrick "Paddy" Groves and his brother "moved" the Inn across the lane into said stables and so the new Blue Ball Inn was born. Nearby Triscombe Stone which is enroute from the Inn past the old quarry, marks the junction of the old drovers road and the coaching road from Watchet to Lyme Regis. On the old coaching routes, Inns would often hang out a coloured emblem for the coach drivers (who usually couldn't read or write) to follow, hence The Blue Ball Inn may have been appropriately named.