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Your last Pint?

By Unabomber, in General Chat

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Tommy G

Tommy G

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9 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

What’s your plan out of interest? I ask because I’d say there is three distinct areas you’d drink in. 
 

Free Trade Inn is one of the best pubs in the country but it’s in Ouseburn which is a good twenty to thirty minutes out of the city centre 

Stag do so not quite clear yet on the plan - but wanted to have a few recommendations in the back pocket 

CWC1983

CWC1983

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1 hour ago, Voll Blau said:

Bet that was rammed today.

Not too bad,     white horse in Quorn, Moorings and Navigation was chocca all day. 

 

goody2028

goody2028

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Went to a few pubs around Stamford yesterday before the Harborough game. Seemed a decent place to booze, tad expensive but a lovely place. 

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Sir Steve Howard

Sir Steve Howard

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Rattler at Buck & Bell, Long Itchington (Warks).

 

I've always been blown away by the number of successfully running pubs in this random village. Seven pubs!

From a quick search, the highest pubs per capita in England and Wales is listed as Great Yarmouth (way ahead of competition at 242 pubs per 100k people - City of Westminster next at 166 but that hardly counts).

 

7 pubs in village of 2.7k population = 259 pubs/100k people.

I'm hereby staking Long Itchington as the pub capital of the UK.

Interested to know if anyone can think of any other candidates.

Voll Blau

Voll Blau

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7 hours ago, Sir Steve Howard said:

Rattler at Buck & Bell, Long Itchington (Warks).

 

I've always been blown away by the number of successfully running pubs in this random village. Seven pubs!

From a quick search, the highest pubs per capita in England and Wales is listed as Great Yarmouth (way ahead of competition at 242 pubs per 100k people - City of Westminster next at 166 but that hardly counts).

 

7 pubs in village of 2.7k population = 259 pubs/100k people.

I'm hereby staking Long Itchington as the pub capital of the UK.

Interested to know if anyone can think of any other candidates.

I thought Barrow having seven was impressive but that's around double the population.

Officer Doofy

Officer Doofy

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8 hours ago, Sir Steve Howard said:

Rattler at Buck & Bell, Long Itchington (Warks).

 

I've always been blown away by the number of successfully running pubs in this random village. Seven pubs!

From a quick search, the highest pubs per capita in England and Wales is listed as Great Yarmouth (way ahead of competition at 242 pubs per 100k people - City of Westminster next at 166 but that hardly counts).

 

7 pubs in village of 2.7k population = 259 pubs/100k people.

I'm hereby staking Long Itchington as the pub capital of the UK.

Interested to know if anyone can think of any other candidates.

It used the be whitwick back in the day 

Miquel The Work Geordie

Miquel The Work Geordie

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9 hours ago, Sir Steve Howard said:

Rattler at Buck & Bell, Long Itchington (Warks).

 

I've always been blown away by the number of successfully running pubs in this random village. Seven pubs!

From a quick search, the highest pubs per capita in England and Wales is listed as Great Yarmouth (way ahead of competition at 242 pubs per 100k people - City of Westminster next at 166 but that hardly counts).

 

7 pubs in village of 2.7k population = 259 pubs/100k people.

I'm hereby staking Long Itchington as the pub capital of the UK.

Interested to know if anyone can think of any other candidates.

 

Think Castleton in the Peaks has 7 pubs (some great ones too), population just over 500 in the last census

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Bordersfox

Bordersfox

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A pint of some pale ale in my local that I was persuaded to try as 'it's from Leicestershire and so are you'.  Absolute swill.  Horrible stuff. New buildings brewery.  In fairness it might be on its last legs. 

The Blur

The Blur

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On 24/04/2026 at 09:58, Chris_OGrady said:

I seem to remember a few poeple have been to the Holly Bush Inn on here in Makeney. Can you walk there down the river Derwent directly from Duffield station?

 

Message @Stadt or @Voll Blau I am pretty sure it was one of them who did the pub walk.  

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Stadt

Stadt

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On 24/04/2026 at 09:58, Chris_OGrady said:

I seem to remember a few poeple have been to the Holly Bush Inn on here in Makeney. Can you walk there down the river Derwent directly from Duffield station?

I went via the Dead Poets but walked it, didn’t take long but there were some steep hills 

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Voll Blau

Voll Blau

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On 24/04/2026 at 09:58, Chris_OGrady said:

I seem to remember a few poeple have been to the Holly Bush Inn on here in Makeney. Can you walk there down the river Derwent directly from Duffield station?

It'd be a decent walk but doable. The regular Sixes buses drop you outside the King William in Milford (also worth a visit) and then it's 5 mins walk to the Holly Bush.

 

Pretty sure you have to walk that way to cross the river anyway - if you do get off at Duffield, pop into the Town Street Tap.

 

As @Stadt mentions, you can then have a nice (if hilly) walk to the Dead Poets, about 25 mins on from Makeney.

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Chris_OGrady

Chris_OGrady

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Thanks all. I didn’t end up going in the end but hoping to get over there this summer. Shiny Brewery have taken over the Patternmaker Arms in Duffield which should be good.

 

Had some nice beers in the Organ Grinder Loughborough on Saturday night. They do a 5.6% IPA on cask which goes down too easily

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Dr Marco

Dr Marco

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A couple of pints at the King's Head yesterday before heading to the rugby game

then a couple of Tigers at the ground

Well done Leicester Tigers!

Muzzy_no7

Muzzy_no7

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Not my last pint but a word of warning to all those not so switched on when it comes to beer:

 

The Mythos at Tesco isn’t the real deal…if you still want the proper stuff Home Bargains and BnM still have it. 

Muzzy_no7

Muzzy_no7

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On 05/05/2026 at 10:16, Tommy G said:

Had a few Caffreys black stout over the weekend, light and easy. 

 

Murphy's > Guinness.

Much prefer Beamish!

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grobyfox1990

grobyfox1990

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3 hours ago, bovril said:

I don't think I've ever seen the Pride of Spitalfields described without using the word "boozer". Great place. 

Haha yeh v true, to me the jam pot is more of a 'boozer' in that area. 

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