[5][2] The pub has a pool room located upstairs as well as a venue which is used for clubs and can be hired for private bookings.

The streets nearby were closed, staff and some regular customers dressed up in historic costumes.

[citation needed] The Hatchet was acquired by the Liberation Group (owners of Butcombe Brewery) in 2017[9] but was shut in March 2020 due to the first nationwide COVID-19 lockdown.

[10] The Hatchet Inn is one of the locations in which the novel The Fair Fight by Anna Freeman is set.

The Hatchet Inn is also the palace from where the pirate Samuel Bellamy started his trip from England to Cape Cod in Alexander De Chastelaine's novel Black Sam.