Pubs Galore Crawl Autumn/Winter 2024

[Bucking Fastard]

Here's the Coventry trip - just open the link and then click on "open map" once you get through to Camra Experience. I agree that Byatts and the Greyhound look a bit too far out, but there are nine pubs fairly centrally placed.

That's helpful Will ,many thanks.Having created a trip and opened map,I'm not seeing distances to walk the trip or am I missing something ?

[Bucking Fastard]

There's a bus 170a from the station (once an hour, at 55) to near the farthest point of the Brampton Mile, with a very short walk from the stop to the first GBG pub: Rose & Crown. There are then three more GBG pubs on Chatsworth Road: the Tap (opens at 2pm Fridays), the Anchor (opens 3pm) and the Tramway, with a few worthy wild cards in case those late openers can't be persuaded.

There is then still a walk of almost a mile to the Chesterfield Arms, the best pub in Chesterfield in my opinion, but the Chesterfield Alehouse and the Market are also GBG and are on the way there. Nearby the Neptune is pretty decent, and then a little walk to near the football ground, the Glassworks and the Beer Parlour (opens 4pm), the last two GBG pubs in the town. This is a decent way out, but the total walk of three miles exactly would have plenty of pub stops. There are buses from near the Neptune to the football ground if the walk along the busy A61 is too much, and there are buses back into the centre with a short walk to the station.

The Portland, the Spoons near the market, must be close to getting into the GBG, and possibly the Rutland next to the church, and maybe the Pig & Pump too.

Again that's very helpful Will ,maybe Chesterfield is one to consider.

[Bucking Fastard]

That's helpful Will ,many thanks.Having created a trip and opened map,I'm not seeing distances to walk the trip or am I missing something ?

Using Google Maps I calculated that a route starting at the station,then Earlsdon (3 pubs)Hearsall Inn,Broomfield Tavern,then the city centre pubs before Twisted Barrel Tap and then back to the station would be just shy of 6 miles,hence 2 hours walking time to visit 11 pubs.Is that too much walking time ?

[sheffield hatter]

That's helpful Will ,many thanks.Having created a trip and opened map,I'm not seeing distances to walk the trip or am I missing something ?

I don't think that feature is ready yet. It's possible to put them in some sort of order, using the up and down arrows at the side of each pub, but at this stage of the site's development I think we would have to copy the postcodes across to Google maps.

[Mobyduck]

Is that too much walking time ?

It would be for some and is a fair bit of time out of a days drinking, (pub appreciation).

[Dave M]

Just quickly put the pubs into a crawl for each of them if you want to edit the possible running orders and stuff you can clone the crawls and fiddle.

Nottingham

Coventry

[sheffield hatter]

you can clone the crawls and fiddle.

If only I knew what that means!

There are far too many apparently pretty good pubs in Nottingham, but they're fairly well spread out and we couldn't possibly do them all in one day. So some decisions would need to be made if it's going to be Nottingham.

The Doctors Orders on Mansfield Road is too far out from city centre pubs (even if including the potential wildcard of the Peacock at the city end of Mansfield Road) and would require a bus there and back.

The Plough Inn is about a mile west of Canning Circus where there are three GBG pubs (Organ Grinder, Sir John Warren and Good Fellow George) plus one (the Falcon) that is on three pint glasses on the new BQA (Beer Quality Accreditation) system that's being introduced on Camra Experience. (NB Camra members will be able to open both of those links, I'm not sure what happens with non-members, but I think the beer scores will be unavailable.) It seems crazy to catch a bus out there and back, when there are four decent pubs within a few yards of each other (three of them have the same postcode).

To the east of the centre, Keans Head is a reasonable walk from the three Sneinton Pubs, Fox & Grapes, King Billy and Partizan Tavern. There's a draw back here, in that the last named of those is a 4pm opener, but if we time it right it could work.

The Vat & Fiddle was our meeting place in 2011 when we last did Nottingham, which makes sense as it is within a stone's throw of the station. Two good pubs are not far away, the Embankment ( Heritage Interior) and the Stratford Haven in West Bridgford. Two problems here, first that the direction of walking between these would be taking us away from all the other pubs on the crawl. Less importantly, perhaps, all three are Castle Rock tied houses, so not much in the way of variety.

That little bit of pruning brings the total ppubs back down to nine! Obviously, storng walkers and fanatics could do more...

Maybe Coventry or Chesterfield would be better after all.

[trainman]

I see that pruning, rather than extending, is already the brief for Nottingham but those who haven't been there, or those doing a double-header overnight, should also consider nearby Beeston, with the Crown (in my national top3) and Victoria my favs, but great support acts in the Star, Hop Pole, Totally Brewed etc.

[sheffield hatter]

I see that pruning, rather than extending, is already the brief for Nottingham but those who haven't been there, or those doing a double-header overnight, should also consider nearby Beeston, with the Crown (in my national top3) and Victoria my favs, but great support acts in the Star, Hop Pole, Totally Brewed etc.

Good thinking, Jim.

Maybe I'm slowing down in my old age, but the thought of doing 13 pubs in one day, in several different parts of the city, seemed a bit too much.

[Real Ale Ray]

I see that pruning, rather than extending, is already the brief for Nottingham but those who haven't been there, or those doing a double-header overnight, should also consider nearby Beeston, with the Crown (in my national top3) and Victoria my favs, but great support acts in the Star, Hop Pole, Totally Brewed etc.

Absolutely agree with Jim, having been to Beeston a few times, it's a great place for a crawl. In fact I'd say there's enough quality pubs there for a great day out