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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/06/2026 21:20:00

A Southampton institution in the student-heavy Bevois Valley district, the Hobbit is a multi-level pub and late-night live music venue rolled into one. Originally the Portswood Hotel and shown on nineteenth-century maps, it was renamed after Tolkien's novel in 1989 and has since become one of the city's best-known nightspots, popular with students and like-minded locals who pack it out most nights of the week. The split-level building holds two bars, a pool table upstairs and a large paved beer...