I would have thought not as there are not enough good options but there certainly are some. Possibly Colchester might be a better option but it's a lot further and Colchester North is a long way from the town centre. I can't think of anywhere in Essex. The GBG entries are all spread amongst a wide range of towns and villages.
Tunbridge Wells has in the last 2 years become a great place for ticking and presumably pubs.Dont know how difficult it is to get to.
ragged trousers
pantiles tap
fuggles beer café
George
opera hse
sankeys
guinea
beer boutique
Bedford
duke of York
sussex arms
framptons
are all recommended on Scoopgen
Camden would be a good crawl if we extended it into Highgate.Loads of good pubs but maybe they have been done by too many pubgalorees already.
What about Birmingham.Surely some decent pubs there or not.
#geography galore alert!
Sitting on the fence can be pretty painful!
Peterborough is similar latitude to Birmingham, but there's an argument that the line between North and South (and therefore, by implication, where the Midlands lie) is not horizontal on the map. On the other hand, Peterborough is only a recent Cambridge acquisition - it used to be associated with Northamptonshire, which is clearly Midlands. Probably the answer is East, but as that has been determined to consist of Norwich and Moscow and other places that can't be reached, it can't, by definition, include Peterborough because that can be reached by the ECML.
Just north of London on the ECML? The choice is between Stevenage and Peterborough.
Tunbridge Wells, anyone?
Come On You Hatters!
Fewer pubs than Canterbury, but probably a better bet for a Kent crawl.
Four trains per hour and about 55 minutes (or about nine minutes less from London Bridge if coming from Kings Cross, St Pancras or Euston) - not that poor?