Hook Norton Brewery is a regional brewery in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England, several miles outside the Cotswold Hills. Founded in 1849, the brewing plant is a traditional Victorian 'tower' brewery in which all the stages of the brewing process flow logically from floor to floor; mashing at the top, boiling in the middle, fermentation and racking at the bottom. Until 2006, the brewing process was powered by steam. Beer is still delivered in the village by horse-drawn dray.
Hook Norton Brewery
The steam engine in 2007
Hook Norton Brewery's horse-drawn dray at the Harvester in Long Itchington, Warwickshire, during their 2011 beer festival
Hook Norton is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England. It lies 4+1⁄2 miles (7 km) northeast of Chipping Norton, close to the Cotswold Hills. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,117. The village is formed of four neighbourhoods: East End, Scotland End, Down End and Southrop.
Hook Norton brewery is one of Britain's last working Victorian tower breweries
Railway viaduct piers to the south-east of Hook Norton. (April 2006)