2019 AUTUMN PUG Crawl

[Tris39]

Leaving aside questions of latitude, Hereford/Herefordshire is firmly in the West Midlands Region according to government (ducks behind sofa)

Yup. Certainly is. And so is the sofa if you have one in this fine county.

[rpadam]

Never been to Hereford,how does it stack up from a pub crawl point of view ?

A good place to drink, but being further South than Bedford, I propose it for the next Southern crawl!

And there again, its station is managed by Transport for Wales...

[Spinko]

I probably don't post here enough to have influence on these matters but Shrewsbury is a good call. Potential for additional trips to Caersws, Welshpool and Newtown on adjacent days

[Mobyduck]

I probably don't post here enough to have influence on these matters but Shrewsbury is a good call. Potential for additional trips to Caersws, Welshpool and Newtown on adjacent days

All input is worthy.

[rpadam]

I probably don't post here enough to have influence on these matters but Shrewsbury is a good call. Potential for additional trips to Caersws, Welshpool and Newtown on adjacent days

Caersws is a brave call - only one of the pubs was open the day I stopped there!

[Spinko]

Caersws is a brave call - only one of the pubs was open the day I stopped there!

Great chippy and still the smallest town to have played competitive football in Europe, I think..

[Aqualung]

I probably don't post here enough to have influence on these matters but Shrewsbury is a good call. Potential for additional trips to Caersws, Welshpool and Newtown on adjacent days

I think Shrewsbury has been mentioned before and I think it has enough to make it a viable option. Iy also gas a Premier Inn near the Rail Station and overlooking the Bus Station. There are other good options for the adjacent days, Ludlow, Ruabon, Nantwich or on a Saturday the Salopian Brewery Tap.

[Aqualung]

Never been to Hereford,how does it stack up from a pub crawl point of view ?

I don't think it has enough options. I went there to visit the Spoons and also visited the original home of Wye Valley Brewery and a micropub. I didn't feel I was missing out on much. Midlands or South? It's West but as there are just three categories I'd place it in the midlands. It's roughly on the same level as Worcester and Banbury which are surely Midland towns.

[Aqualung]

South Midlands, almost level with Northampton.

It gets Anglia television but I've always thought of it as South due to the train links to London and the fact that the Essex and Herts borders are not very far away,

[Aqualung]

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Stripping out the geography arguments etc, the list (mainly dis'd) of suggestions is so far:

Loughborough
Newark
Lichfield
Norwich
Stourbridge
Stamford
Bridgnorth
Northampton
Kettering
Grantham
Cambridge
Peterborough
Ludlow
Kidderminster
Lincoln
Shrewsbury
Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth as one.

Only Ludlow and Kenilworth do not have JDWs but I've been to Ludlow twice. I couldn't even tell you exactly where Kenilworth is!