NORWICH
Welcome to Pub Trails - NORWICH
One of the places visited that was so large and interesting that THREE trails were created for you to try.
Norwich is a city in East Anglia in the county of Norfolk. It was once second to London in size and importance with its heyday being prior to the industrial revolution. Important visitor attractions are Norwich Castle and Norwich Cathedral. Fun can be had with real life game play at Cryptic Escape and History Mystery Game. Arts activities include The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and the Theatre Royal. There is also the Strangers’ Hall Museum and The Museum of Norwich.
Norwich has an amazing amount of shopping in the city centre. There are several large shopping malls, an extensive market place and the historic lanes. A day can be spent just visiting bookshops and vinyl record stores. The river Wensum flows through the city offering attractive riverside walks.
Voted one of the Sunday Times’ Best Places to live in 2020, 2021 and 2022
The Norfolk Broads are close at hand and the seaside a mere 20 miles away at Great Yarmouth.
Tourist information The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts visit Norfolk Norwich Castle Norwich CathedraL
Below is the map of the Norwich Pubtrails
There are three PUBTRAILS for Norwich. One is in the city centre and two just outside the city centre:
1. UNTHANK ROAD (green icons) and environs taking in a lot of pubs in the Golden Triangle area of Norwich - starts below
2. A tour around THE LANES (red icons) in the city centre
3. Out to the WEST END (blue icons)
All trails can start at the roundabout on the A147 at Chappelfield gardens. Trail 2, which is in the city, can be started in the centre of the city.
Pub Info
It was said that Norwich had a church for each week of the year and a pub for each day.
The book Norwich Pubs and Breweries Past and present by frances and Michael Holmes is highly recommended. Lovingly produced it maps current and former pubs and breweries in the city. See their website.
The vast majority of pubs are open all day and most serve food during this time.
Most pubs in the outskirts trails (1 and 3) have extensive gardens and often front patios. Many of these are corner pubs that were two large rooms and are now opened up.
Quite a few of the city centre pubs also have beer gardens through to the rear and some have seating outside the front of the building.
Staff are invariably friendly and helpful.
Prices are seldom outrageous though 'craft ales' are often more expensive than real ale.
The norfolkpubs.co.uk website has information on most Norwich pubs. This includes historical information such as owners, licensees and important dates - link
Pub Jukebox:
Alcohol themed music to listen to while you browse.
little old wine drinker me - Robert Mitchum
Links to the THREE Norwich trails
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Unthank Road and off of it
The Georgian Town House
The Pear Tree (was No 27)
The Mulberry
Warwick St Social
The Eaton Cottage
The Unthank Arms
The York Tavern
The Rose tavern
The Coach & Horses
The Champions
The Coachmakers Arms
The Trowel & Hammer
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The Lanes in the city centre
The Vine
The Belgium Monk
The Birdcage (now Dining Rooms)
CHICK Inn (was Micawber’s)
The Ten Bells
The Plough
The Mash Tun
The Rumsey Wells
St Andrews Brew House
Norwich Tap (closed)
The Wildman
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The West End
The Temple Bar
Earlham Arms
The Black Horse
The Garden House
The Alexandra Tavern
The Belle Vue
The Fat Cat
The Reindeer
Norwich Pubs & Breweries by Frances Michael Holmes
A tremondously detailed and always interesting book covering public houses and breweries in Norwich. It details pubs from about 1884 with lots of information and pictures. there are eight accompanying maps showing where pubs and breweries were in the past and still are in the present.
In north west Norwich the double page map shows 58 closed pubs and 5 open pubs.
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 Knaresborough 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 pathway popular with walkers runs between Winchester and Canterbury?
Answer at foot of page
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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
Other large places
Chester 5 trails Whitby 4 trails
Edinburgh 9 trails Shrewsbury 4 trails
Glasgow 16 trails - including the famous Clockwork Orange or Glasgow Subway crawl
York 5 trails
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Books on pubs
A selection of recommended books on pubs and their history. There are books on the social history of pubs and the design of pubs through the ages.
There are also books on visiting pubs and ones recommending pubs to visit.
CAMRA’s Good Beer Guide
Death of the English Pub by Christopher Hutt
Brewers, Brands and the Pubs in their Hands by Tony Thornton
Licensed to Sell by Brandwood, Davidson & Slaughter
And many more
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Local CAMRA
Norwich and district CAMRA
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Books about Beer
A selection of recommended books covering all aspects of beer and brewing. There are books on the history of beer and others on different styles of beer.
For example
An Inebriated History of Britain by Peter Haydon
Amber, Gold & Black by Martyn Cornell
Brew Britannia by Jessica Boak & Ray Bailey
The Story of the Pint by Martyn Cornell
Miracle Brew by Pete Brown
Built to Brew by Lynn Pearson
And many more
“Candy is dandy,b
ut liquor is quicker..”
— Ogden Nash
ANSWER: Pilgram’s Way
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