News: September 2016

Sixteen pubs have been singled out by the Campaign for Real Ale as the best around Britain.

The list contains a mix of outlets, from community-owned pubs to micro-pubs and pubs that have been in the same family for generations. It includes the following:

Central Southern: Cross Keys, Thame
East Anglia: Stanford Arms, Lowestoft
East Midlands: Old Oak Inn, Horsley Woodhouse
Greater London: Hope, Carshalton
Greater Manchester: Baum, Rochdale
Kent: Rifle Volunteers, Maidstone
Merseyside & Cheshire: Cricketers, St Helens
North East: Steamboat, South Shields
Scotland & Northern Ireland: Volunteer Arms (Staggs), Musselburgh
South West: Salutation, Ham
Surrey & Sussex: Brooksteed Alehouse, Worthing
Wales: Arvon Ale House, Llandrindod Wells
Wessex: The Bottle Inn, Marshwood, Dorset
West Midlands: Earl Grey, Leek
West Pennines: Swan with Two Necks, Pendleton
Yorkshire: George & Dragon, Hudswell

The regional winners will now go forward in the search to find CAMRA’s National Pub of the Year.

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