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I recently spotted an article from Esquire magazine listing sixty of the best pubs in Britain. Not surprisingly, as with most such lists, there’s a noticeable bias towards the South of England and more upmarket pubs, although it does include plenty of good ones.
So, in response, entirely off the top of my head, and possibly slightly under the affluence of incohol, I thought I would draw up my own list. I think there is only one common entry between both lists.
As caveats I would say that this only lists places I have actually been, so doesn’t pretend to offer a balanced national coverage. Some of them made an impression on me in the previous century, but I haven’t visited them in this. There’s probably at least one on the list that has now closed, and equally a blindingly obvious one I’ve missed off. There will also probably be one that you consider to be utterly crap.
I’ve also omitted some well-known classics such as the Square & Compass at Worth Matravers and the Pandora at Restronguet Creek on the grounds that I haven’t actually been there for twenty-five or more years.
Not surprisingly, Sam Smith’s and Robinson’s are represented more than any other brewers or pub operators. There’s not a single Wetherspoons. I rather wanted to include a Donnington pub in the Cotswolds, but none really stood out from the pack in recent memory.
- Admiral Benbow, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
- Albion, Conwy, Caernarfonshire
- Anchor, High Offley, Staffordshire
- Arden Arms, Stockport, Cheshire
- Armoury, Stockport, Cheshire
- Barley Mow, Kirk Ireton, Derbyshire
- Barrels, Hereford
- Bennet’s Bar, Edinburgh
- Bird in Hand, Mobberley, Cheshire
- Black Boy, Winchester, Hampshire
- Black Horse, Clapton-in-Gordano, Somerset
- Blue Bell, York
- Boar’s Head, Stockport, Cheshire
- Boat, Penallt, Monmouthshire
- Boot, Chester
- Cock, Broom, Bedfordshire
- Colpitts Hotel, Durham
- Cresselly Arms, Cresswell Quay, Pembrokeshire
- Cricketers, Berwick, Sussex
- Cross Keys, Chester
- Crown & Anchor, Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire
- Crown, Churchill, Somerset
- Crown, Stockport, Cheshire
- Davenport Arms, Woodford, Cheshire
- Digby Tap, Sherborne, Dorset
- Dolphin, Derby
- Dolphin, Plymouth, Devon
- Eclipse, Winchester, Hampshire
- Farriers Arms, St Albans, Hertfordshire
- Fleece, Bretforton, Worcestershire
- Fletcher Moss, Didsbury, Manchester
- Grape Vaults, Leominster, Herefordshire
- Great Western, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
- Gresley Arms, Alsagers Bank, Staffordshire
- Griffin, Heaton Mersey, Lancashire
- Half Moon, Durham
- Harrington Arms, Gawsworth, Cheshire
- Horse & Farrier, Gatley, Cheshire
- Horse & Groom, Scarcliffe, Derbyshire
- King’s Arms, Heath, Yorkshire
- King’s Arms, Seaton Sluice, Northumberland
- Loggerheads, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
- Nursery, Stockport, Cheshire
- Old House, Ightham Common, Kent
- Queen’s Head, Stockport, Cheshire
- Queens Hotel, Carmarthen
- Railway, Marple, Cheshire
- Red Lion, Dayhills, Staffordshire
- Salutation, Ham, Gloucestershire
- Snickleway Inn, York
- Star, Bath, Somerset
- Swan, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire
- Talbot, Tregaron, Cardiganshire
- Travellers Rest, Alpraham, Cheshire
- Victoria, Cleveleys, Lancashire
- Vine, Dunham Woodhouses, Cheshire
- White Horse, Clun, Shropshire
- White Lion, Barthomley, Cheshire
- Ye Olde Vic, Stockport, CheshireYew Tree, Cauldon, Staffordshire
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