Maps to accompany Pubtrails

Welcome to Pub Trails

Most websites of pubs/hotels/inns etc have loads of info on food and accommodation, and even wine, but neglect to mention beer, other than some generic terminology such as 'fine ales'. Hopefully this site will give some information on the beer (at time of visit).

You do not have to visit all of the pubs on one day. The largest place would be a challenge for this. They can be crawled over various lengths of time from one day to a week depending on your time and other commitments.

Interesting Maps to accompany Pubtrails

  • Places visited by Pubtrails

    Over forty villages, towns and cities with drinking trails from Pubtrails

    See map below

  • Pubs visted by Stevenson and MacKay

    Pubs visited by Craig Stevenson and John MacKay while researching their seven books on travelling around Scotland using their bus passes.

    See map below

  • Yorkshire Heritage pubs

    Pubs from The CAMRA book on Yorkshire pubs with historically interesting interiors.

    se map below

  • Scottish Heritage pubs

    Pubs listed in the CAMRA book of pubs with historically important interiors.

    See map below

  • The Great Northern Road

    Historic coaching inns on the great Northern Road as described in the book by Roger Protz.

    See map below

  • CAMRA's great British pubs

    As described in the book CAMRA’s Great British Pubs by Aidrian Tierney-Jones.

    See map below

 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 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 Jukebox:

Alcohol themed music to listen to while you browse.

Wide Eyed & Legless - Andy Fairweather Lowe

Places visited by pubtrails.org.uk

legend: places visited in seven books by Mackay & Stevenson using their bus passes.

The legends are :

cross = visited in Mud, Sweat and Beers - a visit to local derbies in Junior Football

tick = visited in Inn Aff The Bar - bars visited via 40 senior football grounds

square = visited in The Cheap Way Round - bars visited via 13 day trips - different colours indicate different visits/chapters

tear drop = visited in Still Goin’ - bars visited via 13 day trips - different colours indicate different visits/chapters

champagne glass = visited in Goin’ Roon the Edge - bars visited via 13 day trips to places on the coast - different colours indicate different visits/chapters

bag = visited in Beer Hunters - bars visited via 14 day trips to beaches with metal detectors - different colours indicate different visits/chapters

star = visited in Auldest boozers in Town - bars visited via 20 day trips to discover the oldest pub in town - different colours indicate different visits/chapters

view map in google maps

 The BEERS

This web site is to concentrate on pubs and their beers. Many drinking places have web sites which tell of their comfortableness, food and accommodation yet totally ignore what beer is sold. This is to redress the balance, though if the pub has a web site there is a link to it.

While many pub visitors much prefer pubs to serve real ales it has to be recognised that not all pubs in a town will sell them. No real ale is not a reason for ignoring a pub. It may be a reason for not returning. Vexed questions arise. If a pub sells real ale can it be a bad pub? Is one without real ale automatically a pub not worth visiting? (see BOOKS)

If you wish to visit all of the pubs in an area you cannot pick and choose. If you only want to visit pubs that sell real ale you may miss out on an interesting experience.

 WARNING

The thoughts on the pubs are purely a personal opinion. Fortunately, we do not all like the same things.

If it is any help, my personal perspective tends to be from as close to the bar as I can get, rather than sitting in a corner.

Pubs and beer never stand still. They open and close; change staff and owners; change beer and decoration at a rate that it is impossible for a web site (or me) to keep up with. Therefore I apologise for changes that have occurred since last visited.

In particular the real ales available will change in many of the pubs regularly (I hope).

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Dr Johnson

Know a pub we should feature? Got some questions about pubs in your area or where you’re going on holiday? Get in touch below