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    Quote Originally Posted by oldboots View Post
    I think most of the Northern contingent will have done Derby a few times so we'll have no problem with pubs outside the ring road, there are of course a few don't miss pubs in the centre for those new to the city The Brunswick Inn and The Alexandra Hotel amongst them. These are of course the start/finish pubs due to their location.

    My favourites would be the two above plus,Furnace Inn, The Flower Pot, Exeter Arms, Silk Mill Ale & Cider House.

    Remarkably I've never been in the The Babington Arms (JD Wetherspoon) and a few others that come recommended are:

    Falstaff Tavern
    Greyhound Inn
    The Peacock Inn
    The Smithfield
    The Tap
    Little Chester Ale House A micropub in the Little Chester area but there's also Coach & Horses nearby if we wanted a shift system.

    Soupy and myself recorded a visit in 2009 here, that thread has a few other ideas especially from Hopwas (I wonder how he's getting on).
    Interesting reading yours and Soup Dragon's proto-crawl. I agree with you about the start and finish points - this is one crawl where the Spoons is too far from the station to make a convenient meeting place. And the Brunswick opens at 11 anyway, so who needs Spoons?

    The Little Chester micro is perhaps a little too far out - especially with the Coach & Horses acting as a kind of substitutes bench. It's half a mile from the Peacock and then another half mile to the Furnace afterwards.

    Suggested route:

    Brunswick (11 until 11:45ish)
    Smithfield (opens at 12)
    Exeter (wild card: Tap)
    Peacock
    Furnace
    Five Lamps (wild card: Horse & Groom)
    Mr Grundy's (wild card: Greyhound)
    Golden Eagle (if thirsty on the way to the next pub!)
    Flower Pot
    Dolphin (wild card: Silk Mill)
    Babington Spoons
    Alexandra

    That's 12 plus wild cards, so possibly needs a little trimming, or some pubs relegating to wild card status. I've left out Falstaff and Bell & Castle from my original suggestion, as too far away from the others.

    What think you?
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    Quote Originally Posted by sheffield hatter View Post
    Interesting reading yours and Soup Dragon's proto-crawl. I agree with you about the start and finish points - this is one crawl where the Spoons is too far from the station to make a convenient meeting place. And the Brunswick opens at 11 anyway, so who needs Spoons?

    The Little Chester micro is perhaps a little too far out - especially with the Coach & Horses acting as a kind of substitutes bench. It's half a mile from the Peacock and then another half mile to the Furnace afterwards.

    Suggested route:

    Brunswick (11 until 11:45ish)
    Smithfield (opens at 12)
    Exeter (wild card: Tap)
    Peacock
    Furnace
    Five Lamps (wild card: Horse & Groom)
    Mr Grundy's (wild card: Greyhound)
    Golden Eagle (if thirsty on the way to the next pub!)
    Flower Pot
    Dolphin (wild card: Silk Mill)
    Babington Spoons
    Alexandra

    That's 12 plus wild cards, so possibly needs a little trimming, or some pubs relegating to wild card status. I've left out Falstaff and Bell & Castle from my original suggestion, as too far away from the others.

    What think you?
    Sounds like a sensible starter for 10, does this route require a plus bus ticket ,or is it walkable ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bucking Fastard View Post
    Sounds like a sensible starter for 10, does this route require a plus bus ticket ,or is it walkable ?
    Good question! Mostly walkable, I'd say. Not more than 10 minutes between pubs - that's a guess, but I can put it into Google maps like I did for Al 10000's first shot. But it's a bit of a trek back to the station from the city centre, so a bus for the last leg might be handy. Not sure if that justifies the expense of an all day ticket though. The trouble with bus routes is that they don't conform to the positions of the public houses: a sad oversight by town planners.
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    I'm afraid I'm busy that week. Ah well, I'll keep hoping.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sheffield hatter View Post
    Mostly walkable, I'd say. Not more than 10 minutes between pubs - that's a guess. But it's a bit of a trek back to the station from the city centre, so a bus for the last leg might be handy. Not sure if that justifies the expense of an all day ticket though.
    Total walking distance 4.3 miles.

    I've managed to keep walking times down to 10 minutes between pubs (0.5 miles on Google maps) but this has entailed switching the Greyhound and Mr Grundy's, so that it is the latter that is now a wild card. (Collectors of these are assumed to have a predilection for walking.)

    There is a bus from near the Wetherspoons in the city centre which cuts out most of the walk back to the last pub near the station. This brings the walking distance (not including wild cards) down to 3.8 miles.

    This is still early days - feedback is expected from fans of pubs not mentioned so far, asking why theirs are not on my list: it's just a suggestion, please put forward your own ideas.
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    That looks like a great list Will. I'm not too familiar with Derby, but the one pub I remember being keen to do after my last visit was the New Zealand Arms. Doesn't look like it's too far from Mr Grundy's but it'll obviously add a bit more walking to the route, so maybe best suited as another wildcard option?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pubsignman View Post
    I'm not too familiar with Derby, but the one pub I remember being keen to do after my last visit was the New Zealand Arms. Doesn't look like it's too far from Mr Grundy's but it'll obviously add a bit more walking to the route, so maybe best suited as another wildcard option?
    Good call, Leigh. I missed this one when I did a little tour around some of the outlying pubs in Derby two years ago. As you say, it could be another wild card, but let's see what feedback I get for my suggested route and particularly the walking distances involved. If people don't mind the extra mile (it's 1.5 miles going from Five Lamps to Greyhound via Mr Grundy's and New Zealand Arms; 0.5 miles direct), we could add this one to the route and reinstate Mr Grundy's too!
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    Called in recently, not got round to reviewing it yet, but we really liked it.

    Packed when there's abvout 15 in though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ROBCamra View Post
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    Called in recently, not got round to reviewing it yet, but we really liked it.

    Packed when there's abvout 15 in though.
    Yeah, I'd forgotten about that one. It's a sister micropub to the Little Chester Ale House, I believe. We could certainly add it as a wild card - as long as no more than 15 of us want to do it!
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    Currently £20.50 e/w from that London. Who's waiting for the megatrain (~30Sep)?
    Surprised the Tap is not on-map, even if it's slightly sterile inside. Don't know of Mr Grundy's; his first name isn't Bill is it?
    Regarding distance from furthest pub back to station, we got a minicab (I know! what was I thinking?), a couple of visits back, from Flowerpot to Brunswick for only a fiver-ish. So if folk team up you should be able to do it for ~£1.50pp.

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