BATH
Welcome to Pub Trails
BATH
One of the places visited that was so large and interesting that several trails were created for you to duplicate.
Bath is a large city in Somerset with a population of about 89,000 augmented by over a million staying visitors a year and a further 3 million day visitors. These tourists are attracted by the historical and cultural activities in Bath. The Romans built baths and a temple here and bath Abbey was founded in the 1600s. Bath’s real rise to prominence was in the Georgian era when the spa waters were believed to help cure disease. During this time the Georgian city was built and the population increased, and Beau Nash organised the social life for the city. Jane Austen famously lived here in the early 1800s.
Judged a Sunday Times “Best Place to Live” 2020
Among the sites to see are The Assembly Rooms, The Royal Crescent, Bath Abbey and The Roman Baths. Bath is also a centre for retail therapy should it be required. There are also two open top bus tours and the Bizarre Bath walk is good evening’s entertainment.
There are TWO pub trails in Bath and Outer ring and a Lower ring:
Bath - upper and lower trails
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UPPER RING (red icons)
Sam Wellers
The Volunteer Riflemans Arms
The Old Green Tree
The Saracen’s Head
The Pig and Fiddle
The Bell
The Star Inn
The Assembly Inn
Revolution
Slug and Lettuce
Hall & Woodhouse
The Salamander
The Raven
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LOWER TRAIL (blue icons)
Coeur de Lion
The West Gate
The Canon
Garrick’s Head
The Griffin Inn
The Bath Brew House
The King of Wessex
The Trinity
The Cork
The Lamb and Lion
The Huntsman
The Ale House
Gascoyne’s (closed)
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Who owns your pubs?
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Interesting articles to read
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Who owns your beer?
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Comparing pubs in Scotland with England
Bath Pub notes
Bath has a wide variety of pubs catering for all tastes ranging from Cocktail bars to old corner beer pubs; four storey monsters to four tiny rooms; touristy places to locals only (preferably); young and old.
25 pubs split into two rings of 13/12 and each trail will start from the Pulteney Bridge - the one with shops on it - that crosses the river Avon.
Bath Breweries include:
Abbey Ales - White Friar (5% Summer Special ale) , Bellringer (4.2% Golden Bitter), Bath Best (4% Bitter), Sin Bin (5.1% malty brew) ,Salvation (4.8%Amber bitter), Oh Mr Porter (4.9% Dark and Smooth), Chorister (4.5% Chesnut Ale)
James St Brewery (Bath Brew House) – Hedgehog’s Snout (Brown ale) (50p to The Hedgehog Trust), Jane Austin Earl Gray infused ale, Emperor; Gladiator (English Bitter); Lupus, Up Pompeii (4.4% pale ale)
PLACES TO VISIT WITH PUBTRAILS
The towns and villages highlighted on this web site have a wide variety of pubs and beers in them. All of the places are great to visit, whether for a day or longer, and most have tourist attractions for all of the family.
There is a large variety of pubs throughout the different towns shown below. Some you may wish never to visit again but even discovering these can be interesting. There are pubs that you would not take your wife into. While some you could not take your girlfriend into. A few you would not take either into. However, most of the pubs are very pleasant.
HOME MAP of places visited
Alnwick Ambleside Anstruther Bakewell Bamburgh Barnard Castle Bath Berwick upon Tweed Birnam & Dunkeld Bourton on the Water Bowness on Windermere Bridge of Allan Chester Chichester Dunblane Dunoon Edinburgh Ely Fort William Glasgow Gourock Greenock Helensburgh Inverness Kelso Keswick Knaresbourgh Largs Linlithgow Lyme Regis Melrose Montrose Newton Stewart North Berwick Norwich Oban Pebbles Penzance Portree Pitlochry Quorn Richmond Rothesay St Andrews Seahouses Seend Shrewsbury Skipton Stirling Stratford-upon-Avon Stockton Heath Whitby Windemere Whitstable York
Pub Quiz
Which King was known as the wisest fool in christendom?
Answer at foot of page
I certainly do not drink all the time. I have to sleep you know.
W C Fields
ANSWER: James I (of England) / James VI (of Scotland) - as said by Henry IV of France
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