Quote Originally Posted by Pangolin View Post
I see that the Morning Advertiser have updated their occasional list of "most popular pub names", which has attracted a little mainstream media coverage. Sadly it seems to be based on MA subscribers, so is not especially accurate as a quick cross-check of our own excellent live list quickly shows. Even allowing for possible differences in method (like ignoring suffixes so that Railway, Railway Inn, Railway Tavern, Railway Hotel etc are all counted as Railway) there are some pretty wide variations and obvious omissions.
3 out of 10 for getting the top three right! Apart from The Railway, another of our top 25 they missed is The Station. They must have found an old Dr Beeching list!
It is a shame that they do not give the number of each pub name so we can see how many pubs they have failed to find!