... by a group consisting of three members, prompted by PaulOfHorsham who bought a train ticket and said "anyone else fancy it?" - see this thread for details. It's not classed as an "official" PuG crawl. I think Norwich has previously figured in a poll but didn't garner many votes. It's a great city for beer but it's hard to get to.
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It's also a large sprawling city with promising looking pubs spread all over the place. There also seems to be quite a tangled web of buses. In recent years, I think I've only been to one non Spoons and didn't think much of that.
The trains at Norwich use stock that is so ancient you could be excused for thinking it was a heritage line.
I was in Norwich in February for the Camra winter ales beer festival at St Andrews Church. On my second day I did a 10 pub crawl (no reviews as yet because I've only just rediscovered my notebook, which I had mislaid):
The Jubilee
Frank's Bar
Woolpack Yard
Kings Head
Lord Rosebery
The Duke of Wellington
The Plasterers Arms
The Ribs Of Beef
The Murderers
The Rose Inn
Probably rather more walking than you'd be happy to do, I admit. Also there are several pretty decent pubs that I didn't do on this circuit but which would probably feature on a "must visit" list for Norwich, and a tighter circuit could be produced, I should think.
Norwich is inescapably out on a limb transport-wise, though I don't recall the vintage carriages you mention...
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I'm not arguing against Cambridge being included but I was surprised to see that it's roughly level with Northampton. When I go there I get a train from Tottenham Hale a couple of miles away so it seems local.