 It was named The Bottle Inn, some time late in the 18th century, when it became the first inn in the area to sell bottled beers.The Bottle Inn was purchased as a free house (not tied to any one brewery) in 1982 from Ushers Brewery by Michael and Pauline Brookes.In 2014, the public house won the CAMRA award for West Dorset pub of the year.