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Sawyer's Arms (JD Wetherspoon)

The Sawyer's Arms is a J D Wetherspoon pub on Cowick Street in Exeter, Devon.

Last updated September 16, 2026

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Overview

The Sawyer's Arms is a J D Wetherspoon pub located at 121 Cowick Street, Exeter, Devon, EX4 1JD. It opens daily from 8:00am and closes at 12:00am, and children under 18 are only permitted on the premises between 8:00am and 9:30pm. The pub offers facilities including TV screens, a licensed outside area and step-free access, and customers can use the Wetherspoon app to order food and drinks to their table. The pub's history page states that the current detached building was built in 1966 on the corner of Cowick Street and Prospect Place, replacing an earlier public house called Sawyer's Arms first recorded in White's Devon Directory of 1850.

History

The Sawyer's Arms is a J D Wetherspoon pub in the suburb of St Thomas, Exeter, not far from the city centre. According to the pub's history page, the current detached building was built in 1966 on a large plot on the corner of Cowick Street and Prospect Place, and was apparently decorated internally 'with circular saws and saw-teeth motifs'. It replaced an earlier public house called Sawyer's Arms, first recorded in White's Devon Directory of 1850 and run by John Gibbs. The pub's interior includes framed drawings and text about Grace Darling and about Cowick Street.

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