The start of the Pennine Way, just outside the village of Edale, is only a short train journey from Manchester or Sheffield, but feels much further, offering a deep country atmosphere without too much effort. This pub makes a point of welcoming those with muddy feet and is surrounded by darkly looming but still manageable hills. The beer is supplied by Marston’s and its subsidiary brands (Wychwood, Banks’s) and tastes like heaven after an hour or two in sun, or rain. The beer garden is unusually lovely by English standards, too. Chosen by Andrew Clarke, chef-director at East London restaurant St Leonards and founder of the Pilot Light mental health campaign In 2010, what was then the Bevendean pub was closed by the police due to a series of antisocial incidents, leaving this housing estate close to the South Downs and Brighton University without its hub. Four years later it reopened as the Bevy, after locals bought it and carried out essential works (the vicar spent a day sanding). The result is a bright, airy, chilled-out and chatty pub that is more than just a place for a pint and something to eat (breakfasts are very popular). There’s a cafe, meeting space for clubs and organisations, quizzes and music nights. The whole project is an example of how an urban pub in an unfashionable area can be saved.

The Angel and Islington High Street". Survey of London: volume 47: Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville. 2008. pp.439–455. The Philharmonic Dining Rooms, Liverpool ('The Phil'). Grade II listed Victorian pub with Art Deco lighting and mosaic floor and bar. Once much favoured by the Liverpool Poets. theredlionpreston.co.uk, Mon-Fri noon-2.30pm, 5.30-11pm, Sat noon-3.30pm, 5.30-11pm; Sun noon-3.30pm, 7-10.30pm If there’s no one behind the bar when you arrive, chances are someone on your side will serve you, such is the fraternal nature of this compact village pub just outside Exeter. The community currently leases the pub and is raising funds to buy it outright as the building’s owner wants to sell. It would be a shame if it was lost, as it is a true community hub, hosting a book club, gin tastings, quizzes and bingo; it’s also welcoming inside, with horse brasses, beams, a wood-burner and the kind of patterned carpet all village pubs aspire to. Three cask beers are available, as well as Sandford Cider, made in nearby Crediton. Here’s hoping the villagers meet their target. Historic England. "King William and Naval Volunteer Public Houses (1292605)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 4 December 2014.The Boltons and Redcliffe Square area: The Gunter estate, 1864–78 | British History Online". british-history.ac.uk . Retrieved 11 December 2014. Albion Ale House in Conwy is CAMRA Wales Pub of the Year". dailypost.co.uk. 28 November 2013 . Retrieved 29 December 2014. Cooper, Glenda (15 February 1996). "Few mourn forgotten days of half-crowns and tanners". The Independent . Retrieved 11 December 2014. The Coronation Tap, a Cider house in the suburb of Clifton. Originally built as a farm, it has existed as a licensed premises for over two hundred years. [74] Since you are here, we would like to share our vision for the future of travel - and the direction Culture Trip is moving in.

Historic England. "The Grapes public house (1065528)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 21 December 2013. The Feathers, Linhope Street, Marylebone. A pub since 1899 it is claimed to be the smallest in London, with only three tables and a small bar. It changed name to The Swan & Edgar and closed in 2013. [32] The Blind Beggar Pub: The History of The Blind Beggar". theblindbeggar.com. Archived from the original on 3 October 2013 . Retrieved 7 March 2013. Queens Head, 10 Broad plain, St Philips, Bristol, Gloucestershire". pubshistory.com . Retrieved 4 December 2014. They said of their new collaboration: "W e explore the infinite variety of England's pubs and celebrate their idiosyncratic glory in words and pictures. The English pub is an abiding obsession."The Vulcan, Cardiff, built in 1853 and became Cardiff's oldest public house under its original name, it was dismantled in 2012 to be re-erected at St Fagans National History Museum. The Nutshell, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Britain's smallest pub measuring just 5metres by 2metres (16.5ft by 6.5ft), according to the Guinness Book of Records. [7] The pub, a timber-framed Grade II listed building, has been in existence since 1867. [8] In 1984, a record 102 people squeezed inside. [9] The New Penny, reported to be the oldest continually running gay pub in the UK, in The Calls, Leeds The Winchester in Highgate, north London. Built in 1881 as The Winchester Tavern, it later became The Winchester Hall Hotel. [64] [65] The name derives from a nearby 17th century mansion, Winchester Hall. The pub is listed on Camra's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors. [64] [65]

Comfortably detached from the west London riverfront, comfortably detached from the bustle of Putney proper and Wandsworth, comfortably detached from the real world, in fact, this Camra-approved pub has a timeless feel. That’s mainly due to the fact it was built in 1826 and looks unchanged since, with low ceilings and a pleasingly lived-in feel. In winter, a British stout by the coal fire is a rare treat; in summer, the beer garden fills up with ale lovers who know this unpretentious place is somewhere to be celebrated. The Shakespeare on Prince Street. Built as a Georgian mansion in 1725, it became a public house in 1777, its name deriving from the nearby Theatre Royal. [93] a b "Historic Pub Interiors: LONDON, GREATER – Highgate, London N6, Winchester". heritagepubs.org.uk . Retrieved 23 February 2015. The pubs within the book have been selected for a number of reasons, but frequently exhibit architecture of particular historic interest or quirky interiors –“centuries-old snugs, elegant marble bar tops, rich wood-panelled anterooms and pressed tin ceilings”, as Husband puts it. Friedrichs adds that Great Pubs of England aims to offer “more than just a travel guide but a virtual pub crawl, which documents and memorialises an important and rapidly changing aspect of Britain’s national heritage”. Historic England. "Britannia public house (1358054)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 28 December 2013.

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McVeigh, Tracy (5 February 2012). "At the lonely Tan Hill Inn, the snow is falling... and business is booming". The Observer . Retrieved 7 March 2013. Published by Prestel, the book offers a snapshot of the history of English pub culture, and explores what it is about England’s pubs that have made them transcend their status as mere buildings or watering holes and become pillars of the country’s traditions, identity, and socioeconomic fabric. Top image: Henry Conlon, landlord of the Dublin Castle Tavern in Camden, London; Above: Great Pubs of England by Horst A Friedrichs and Stuart Husband The Peveril of the Peak, Manchester John Moss, for Papillon Graphics. "Manchester Squares & City Centre Public Gardens in Manchester". Manchester2002-uk.com. Archived from the original on 3 January 2008 . Retrieved 1 February 2014.