Square and Compass

The Square and Compass is a pub in Worth Matravers, Dorset, England, UK. It serves homemade and locally-sourced pasties and pies, and hosts music events.

The Square and Compass began life as a pair of cottages on a bluff known as Lychard. Around 1776, it became an alehouse owned by a Wareham brewer cum clay merchant under the sign of The Sloop. A new tenant landlord, a stone mason called Charles Bower, seems to have changed the name around 1830. He ran the place for more than 40 years, followed by his widow, then a series of tenants until 1907, when the Newmans took over. In the interwar years the pub became a fashionable watering hole for a creative set, including artist Augustus John, cartoonist Low, pianist Harriet Cohen, actors Leslie Banks and Gwen Francon-Davis. During the war the clientele changed to include physicists and astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell and Nobel laureates Sir Alan Hodgkin and Sir Martin Ryle, all developing radar.

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